Hospital wards still ‘very busy’
All areas: Figures released on coronavirus patients
The latest figures have been released showing the number of people in hospital with coronavirus at the Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust.
A total of 171 patients with COVID-19 were occupying beds at the trust’s three hospitals as of January 11.
This was up from 148 patients the previous week, a rise of 15.5 per cent.
NHS data also revealed on January 11 a total of 12 mechanical ventilation beds were occupied at the trust.
The hospital trust, which runs Wexham Park and Heatherwood hospitals, recorded two deaths of patients with coronavirus between January 5 and January 11.
Caroline Farrar, a representative from Frimley CCG, told a meeting of the council’s outbreak engagement board on Monday that the trust’s hospitals continue to be ‘very busy’.
She said: “There are still a number of beds closed due to infection control measures and the staff sickness rate is higher than it usually would be at this time of year.
“That is about half COVID, half non-COVID roughly speaking.”
Ms Farrar faced a public question asking how many COVID-19 patients being treated by the trust were unvaccinated.
She said that information was not available for local hospital trusts.
But she pointed to research by the Intensive Care
National Audit and Research Centre which showed that in December three in five people being treated in London intensive care units for COVID-19 were unvaccinated.
Ms Farrar added: “While that doesn’t necessarily tell us exactly what’s going on in hospitals now, it tallies with what we’re hearing from staff on the frontline.”
The number of positive cases of coronavirus are falling across Maidenhead, Windsor and Slough.
A total of 1,447 cases were reported in the Royal Borough between Saturday, January 8 and Friday, January 14.
This compared to 2,178 over the previous seven days, a fall of 33.5 per cent.
In Slough, 1,759 coronavirus cases were reported between Saturday, January 8 and Friday, January 14.
This was down 32.7 per cent from the 2,617 cases recorded the previous week.