Read on Twitter
1/17 It's a been a year since the first COVID-19 patients were admitted to NHS hospitals. A year that's tested the NHS like no other. There are things we would do differently, now that we know more. But the NHS has done extraordinary things in near impossible circumstances...
2/17 ...The NHS has treated more than 320,000 patients with COVID-19, with one person with the virus admitted to critical care nearly every thirty minutes. We've also provided 26,500 COVID-19 patients with the most intensive level of care since that first case was diagnosed...
3/17 ...The NHS has continued to provide care to millions of non-covid maternity, mental health, cancer, ambulance, urgent/emergency & other patients. Given the intense pressure from COVID-19, that's not always been easy, but we've done everything we can to provide care for all..
4/17 ...The NHS is now rolling out the largest vaccination programme in history, administering more than 7 million vaccinations in just 7 weeks from over 1400 sites. GPs, trusts, local authorities, volunteers and vaccine manufacturers working together at unprecedented pace...
5/17 ...The NHS has answered more than 18 million calls – 20% more than last year – via the Coronavirus Response Service & NHS111. Giving urgent care patients a virtual alternative to attending A&E. Alongside the new virtual outpatient service we set up in record time...
6/17 ...The NHS has delivered more than 280 million GP appointments. We've attracted unprecedented numbers of new colleagues, including hundreds of thousands of volunteers, tens of thousands of staff who returned and more than 6,000 nurses from across the globe...
7/17 ...The NHS has led the world in developing new treatments that have massively reduced the number of people dying and suffering serious harm from this disease. And NHS clinical trials have been key to developing the vital vaccines that offer our way back to normality...
8/17 …NHS staff and testing laboratories have played a key part in creating a national test and trace service that’s had to scale up from scratch. And now gives us vital data on who’s infected where, so we’re no longer stumbling in the dark wondering what’s facing us...
9/17 ...Working with our local authority and social care colleagues, the NHS has redesigned the hospital discharge process enabling people to return to their home much more rapidly. Giving the NHS the vital extra hospital space it needed to treat more COVID-19 patients...
10/17 ...The NHS has created a comprehensive network of 24/7 mental health crisis services covering the entire country. And it's expanded mental health provision to meet rapidly rising demand including record monthly levels of children and adolescent mental health referrals....
11/17 …All whilst protecting our staff and non covid patients from this dreadful virus, taking out capacity and making the delivery of care much more difficult and complicated. Alongside record levels of sickness absence as NHS staff catch the disease or have to self isolate…
12/17 ...Tens of thousands of people are still alive thanks to the dedication, professionalism and expertise of NHS staff who have given their all, shift after shift, week after week. And we mourn and grieve for those patients and staff who have lost their lives...
13/17 ...It's been, as always in the NHS, an extraordinary team effort. Frontline NHS clinical and support staff, leaders, managers, porters, paramedics and pharmacists working side by side. Doing all they can to save lives, reduce patient harm and provide great care…
14/17 …Whilst worrying about whether they will catch this dreadful disease and what impact that would have on them and their families. Consistently going the extra mile day after day. And walking, as always, towards the danger and the risk, not away from it, to care for others.
15/17 ...Trusts helping each other, yet again proving the power of a single NHS. The NHS working with social care colleagues in a united health and care sector. Relying on the help of other key workers in, and beyond, other public services & the support of the public at large...
16/17 ...And with more than 29,000 covid patients still in hospital yesterday, and millions more priority group patients to vaccinate by mid February, the work of frontline NHS staff carries on. Today, tomorrow and the day after. A heartfelt thanks for all you have done…
17/17 …We @NHSProviders are proud and honoured to be the voice of England’s 216 ambulance, community, hospital and mental health trusts that have achieved so much over the last year.
