Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust cares for 24 patients with Covid-19 in hospital

By Sonja Tutty, Data Reporter
Published 3rd Mar 2023, 11:06 BST
Orderlies push a bed at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry.Orderlies push a bed at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry.
Orderlies push a bed at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry.
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust was caring for 24 patients with coronavirus in hospital as of Tuesday, figures show.

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust was caring for 24 patients with coronavirus in hospital as of Tuesday, figures show.

NHS England data shows no people were being treated in hospital with Covid-19 at 8am on February 22.

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There was one bed occupied by a patient with Covid-19 four weeks ago in Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.

Across England there were 7,507 people in hospital with Covid as of March 1, with 175 of them in mechanical ventilation beds.

Nationally, the number of hospital patients with Covid-19 has increased by 24% in the last four weeks, while the number on mechanical ventilators has increased by 29%.

The figures also show that 18 new patients with Covid were admitted to hospital in Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust in the week to February 27. This was up from four in the previous seven days.