The North Yorkshire Local Resilience Forum met today to brief the media (13 January 2021).
- The meeting provides updates on some data related to infection rates, testing and hospital admissions.
- Harrogate Hospital Covid-19 inpatient cases of 19 remain less than previous peaks, 41 in April 2020, 31 in late November 2020
- The meeting re-iterated the government’s messages around Covid-19.
- 4 districts have seen reduction in infection rates, 3 districts have seen an increase.
- The CCG have said that hospitals are extremely busy and some procedures are being postponed.
- Hospital Covid-19 inpatients is now at 381 for North Yorkshire.
Infection Rates
7 day infection rate/ 100,000 (week to 9 January 2021)
- England Average – 609 (up 49.5)
- North Yorkshire – 401 (up 55.1)
- Scarborough – 281 (down 67.5)
- Craven – 424 (up 58.5)
- Selby – 514 (up 147.4)
- Harrogate – 427 (up 129.8)
- Richmond – 443 (down 22.3)
- Ryedale – 273 (down 35.8)
- Hambleton – 426 (down 48.2)
7 day infection rate/ 100,000 (week to 4 January 2021)
- England Average 559.5 (up 172.5)
- North Yorkshire 345.9 (up 156.9)
- Scarborough 348.5 (up 134.6)
- Craven 365.5 (up 228.5)
- Selby 366.6 (up 181.6)
- Harrogate 297.2 (up 171.2)
- Richmond 465.3 (up 243.3)
- Ryedale 308.8 (up 129.8)
- Hambleton 377.8 (up 85.8)
Hospitals
The data below is from a verbal report from the North Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group and isn’t consistent with data published by the Government on 12 January 2021 – Daily and cumulative numbers of COVID-19 patients admitted to hospital that shows a total of 19-inpatients with Covid-19 at Harrogate Hospital.
Hospital in-patients with Covid-19 (12 January 2021)
- All NY hospitals – 381 (up 116)
- Harrogate – 46 (up 27)
- York – 121 (up 50)
- Scarborough – 35 (down 5)
- South Tees – 185 (up 34)
- Darlington – 71 (up 7)
- Airedale – 52 (up 23)
Hospital in-patients with Covid-19 (4 January 2021)
- All hospitals – 271 (up 95)
- Harrogate – 19 (up 5)
- York – 71 (up 25)
- Scarborough – 40 (up 4)
- South Tees – 141 (up 61)
- Darlington – 64 (up 28
- Airedale – 28 (down 9)
There are 500 absences due to illness and shielding (that is up by 148 from last report)
Amanda Bloor of the CCG described hospitals as “extremely busy” and that they had re-deployed staff within hospitals and postponed some procedures.
Separately to this meeting we have been looking to verify how busy hospitals. To do that we have requested information around the current bed capacity of each hospital, the number of those beds taken up with Covid-19 patients and the number of spare beds. Both Harrogate Hospital and the CCG have refused to provide details of the current bed capacities and the number of free beds. That refusal has been by declining email requests for the information and refusal to provide that data as part of an FOI request.
Graphs from Gov.UK on 12 January 2021 – Daily and cumulative numbers of COVID-19 patients admitted to hospital
Harrogate District Foundation Trust – daily number of inpatients with Covid-19
Harrogate District Foundation Trust – daily number of Covid-19 patients on mechanical ventilation
Care homes – there are 241 cases of patients and staff within care homes, previously it was 183.
They confirmed that 100 Fixed Penalty Notices had been issued since the start of the most recent lockdown.
That they were adopting a new approach of “Not spending time reasoning with people”
Testing
An apparent tailing-off of the rapid rates of increase, previously seen.
Fixed and mobile PCR testing still in use and with spare capacity.
Lateral Flow Testing is being rolled out in eduction and care homes, although it detects around 40% of cases.
Schools
There is a 16% attendance at schools.
Primary schools have 25% and Secondary 5%
Credit was made to the ongoing work being made by all schools.
Additional data from previous weeks
7 day infection rate/ 100,000 (week to 26 December)
- England Average 387 (up 104)
- North Yorkshire 189 (up 60)
- Scarborough 213 9 (down 34.2)
- Craven 137 (up 4)
- Selby 185 (up 43.8)
- Harrogate 126 (up 39.6)
- Richmond 222 (up 104.7)
- Ryedale 179 (up 99.5)
- Hambleton 292 (up 214.5)
7 day infection rate/ 100,000 (week to 21 December)
- England Average 282.2
- North Yorkshire 129.0
- Scarborough 253.2
- Craven 133.0
- Selby 141.2
- Harrogate 86.4
- Richmond 117.3
- Ryedale 79.5
- Hambleton 77.5
Hospital in-patients with Covid-19 (21 December 2020)
- All hospitals – 176 ( up 2)
- Harrogate – 14 (down 21)
- York – 46 (up 11)
- Scarborough 36 (down 2)
- South Tees 80 (no change)
- Darlington 36 (down 8)
- Airedale 37 (up 8)
