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termo stanley has warned.Public health officials and council leaders also told the Observer that they were receiving only partial postcode data, which prevents them from precisely monitoring local areas, and could allow the virus to spread.Burnham has urged ministers to change their approach after a week that saw Boris Johnson impose a local lockdown on Leicester when health secretary Matt Hancock, revealed that the city had seen a surge o
stanley cup f 944 Covid-19 cases over two weeks.Amid a public row between ministers and Leicesters mayor, Sir Peter Soulsby, health officials finally began sharing more data with the city authorities last Wednesday. Previously, all councils had to wait for official Public Health England data to be published, which meant a two-week lag.Yet significant problems remain, Burnham told the Observer. We need a new principle going forward: everything the government knows, we should know 鈥?and at the same time that they know it. Because we cannot contain this virus if people at a local level are being kept in the dark. Public Health England PHE wrote to councils directors of public health last Monday with details of how to access pillar two data 鈥?that taken from home testing kits and mobile testing sites set up by Deloitte. Until that point, local authorities had only pillar one data Irnz Sentencing Council urges tougher jail terms for terrorist plotters
Jenny Vaughan, who has died aged 55 of cancer, was a consultant neurologist best known for her courageous campaigning to reform the law on gross negligence manslaughter, and end the blame ga
stanley mug me in healthcare.She fearlessly championed two doctors convicted of gross negligence manslaughter: the surgeon David Sellu and paediatrician Hadiza Bawa-Garba. On the back of these cases, she set up with others the Doctors Association UK and led its Learn Not Blame campaign to achieve a just culture in healthcare, which helped to reduce significantly the number of investigations into this crime.In 2013, Vaughan was astonished that Sellu, her colleague at Ealing hospital, in west London, was in Belmarsh prison, convicted of gross negligence manslaughter. The colorectal surgeon also worked at the private Clementine Churchill hospital in Harrow, north-west London, and in 2010 had been asked to review a patient there with abdominal pain. A scan showed the patient had a perforated bowel, an emergency condition, but Sellu was unable to operate straight away as the hospital did not have available a suitable anaesthetist or operating theatre. He operated
stanley quencher later, but the patient, who had liver cirrhosis as well, died two days later in intensive care. Sellu was tried at the Old Bailey in 2013 and sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison.Vaughan, left, was a Labour councillor in Fulham from 1998 to 2006. Photograph: Hammersmith Fulha
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