Public Health and Wellbeing

A collaboration between professionals in Microbiology and Infection Control serving West Wales

COVID-19: still testing the wrong people

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We need health professionals to raise the issue across the UK, to knock on the door of government to ask that the rest of this pandemic is managed using tried and tested health protection and outbreak control measures as it continues to decline.

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The UK governments it would appear still seem to be in denial over mild symptoms that are associated with infection with COVID (SARS- CoV-19), continuing to maintain the line that to book a test via their portal (https://www.gov.uk/get-coronavirus-test) you can only do so if you have one of … Read the rest

COVID-19: The Missing Middle

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On Wednesday, I Tweeted, “I’ve just been alerted to this statement by @WGHealthandCare @HywelDdaHB @PublicHealthW My head is metaphorically in my hands! This priority list is not designed to find the true positives. I’ll try and blog later . . . .” and linked to: https://gov.wales/written-statement-prioritisation-covid-19-testing

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There has been considerable media attention on the pressure being experienced by our testing services, both the demands for appointments for sampling and the laboratory capacity. Working in the three laboratories in the Hywel Dda University Health Board, I can confirm that the local demands have increased week … Read the rest