Weston General Hospital will be gradually reopened next week, after a coronavirus outbreak forced it to close to new admissions. The hospital stopped accepting new patients on 25 May but health officials are now confident that cases have not spread to the wider community. Chief executive of Weston Area Health…
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An outbreak of coronavirus cases at a West Country hospital has been “nipped in the bud”, according to a local MP. John Penrose, who is the Conservative MP for Weston-super-Mare, said the decision to close the town’s hospital on 25 May had resolved the issue. Posting on Twitter, the MP said…
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When I got the call saying that Weston Hospital was shutting its doors to new patients, my heart sank. It was the last thing any of us wanted and, as I hope everyone would expect, I immediately contacted local health chiefs to discuss how to handle the problem. It soon…
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A coronavirus outbreak at Weston General Hospital was caused by staff who did not know they had the virus, according to the town’s MP. Conservative MP John Penrose said health chiefs told him it “did not come from anywhere else”. He said: “Some staff who did not know they had…
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