Black Country Healthcare Trust cares for 23 Covid-19 patients in hospital

Black Country Healthcare Trust was caring for 23 coronavirus patients in hospital as of Tuesday, figures show.
By Will Grimond, Data Reporter
Published 22nd Jul 2022, 11:31 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.

Black Country Healthcare Trust was caring for 23 coronavirus patients in hospital as of Tuesday, figures show.

NHS England data shows the number of people being treated in hospital for Covid-19 by 8am on July 19 was up from 18 on the same day the previous week.

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There was one bed occupied by a Covid-19 patient four weeks ago in Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

Across England there were 13,837 people in hospital with Covid as of July 19, with 318 of them in mechanical ventilation beds.

The number of Covid-19 patients hospitalised nationally has more than doubled in the last four weeks, as has the number on mechanical ventilators.

The figures also show that 17 new Covid patients were admitted to hospital in Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in the week to July 17. This was down from 19 in the previous seven days.