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Good Deeds & News (Corona)

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35 minutes ago, twoleftfeet said:

I think what you are trying to say that the most important thing will comedown to memories and missed time with loved one. Who out there wouldn't swap all their worldly goods for just five more minutes with someone they have lost. Many may be disappointed as this may be the last chance to make memories with loved ones.

Exactly that. My graduation for me is linked to some very complex and difficult emotions for me, which I have since explained to Aus.

 

I completely recognise that something like a graduation in the grand scheme of things is not that significant, but for a whole host of reasons, it was important to me. Apologies to anyone who might have been upset by the discussion - not my intention by what was originally a bit of a throw away comment to an earlier post.

 

Let's look after one another. 

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Mystery donation of £10,000 to provide scrubs to Leicester hospital staff came from Rebekah Vardy
Now the crowdfunding campaign is looking for fabric donations


ByAsha Patel
14:32, 3 APR 2020

Rebekah Vardy made a generous donation of £10,000 to a campaign to supply scrubs for hardworking Leicester hospitals staff.

The crowdfunding campaign was started online by junior doctor Nicki Lygo and nutrition doctor Jim Stewart after an increase in demand for scrubs.

The campaign was launched on April 1 and raised £1,000 on the first day.

But on the evening of April 2, after Jim tweeted Rebekah Vardy asking for a retweet to raise the campaign’s profile, the number shot up drastically.

The crowdfund received a £10,000 donation from a mysterious supporter under the name ‘RV’ - who was later revealed to be Rebekah Vardy herself.


“It is an incredible amount of generosity, we were aiming for £10,000 and now we’re above that and growing.

“But we would love to have continued support,” Dr Lygo, who works for Leicester Royal Infirmary said.


After being restricted to self-isolation due to an underlying health condition, Dr Lygo was “frustrated and felt absolutely terrible that [she] was not on the frontline with [her] colleagues”.

Usually, doctors wear their own clothes and scrubs are worn by a few specialists but now, as a safety measure, ideally all hospital staff should be wearing them.

After identifying the increase in demand for scrubs, she wanted to do something to help and set a target of raising £10,000 towards providing up to 2,000 sets of scrubs.

“We knew that it is a difficult climate to be asking for money, which is why our biggest plea is for fabric donations,” Lygo said.

The money currently raised will go towards manufacturing and other incurred costs, but the biggest cost will be the fabric which Dr Lygo hopes to have donated and is seeking any companies that would be willing to support.


Any extra funding will go towards other PPE equipment, Leicester Hospitals charity, and any community need for scrubs.

Lygo told LeicestershireLive: “I know there is also a community requirement for scrubs - we have clinicians out doing home visits, carers and GPs out there too.”

In a tribute towards her colleagues, she said: “My colleagues across the country and in Leicester are strong, resilient, highly-skilled and all of the things they need to fight this.”

Now she is doing “whatever is humanly possilble to help them” starting with the ‘Scrubs for Leicester’ campaign.

To donate and find more information you can visit the crowdfunding page by clicking here.

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Had a Webex drinking session with mates back home in Northern Ireland, 9 of us in total on/off and some of them live of their own.

 

Thought it would be weird at first but was great to catch up and see everyone, ended up finishing close to 2am. Never the same as the pub but it was a decent alternative given the climate.

 

One of the best parts of it was seeing / chatting to one of my mates for the first time in about 2 years as he can never make it out through various health / work reasons whenever I'm 'home home'.

 

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Gratitude to Mr Carlin who has been busy manufacturing 200 face masks in his Design & Technology classroom to help protect #NHSheroes . The masks are being delivered tomorrow. #NHSThankYou #BBCMakeADifference
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It's a kind of shame that the good deeds that we are seeing in this crisis weren't happening before. Let's hope that one positive to come from this is that we pay more attention to those in need or that are struggling.

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2 minutes ago, Parafox said:

It's a kind of shame that the good deeds that we are seeing in this crisis weren't happening before. Let's hope that one positive to come from this is that we pay more attention to those in need or that are struggling.

It is such crisis though isn’t it? It produces the best and the worst of society. Hope you are correct though and I am just a grumpy old cynic. :thumbup:

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9 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

It is such crisis though isn’t it? It produces the best and the worst of society. Hope you are correct though and I am just a grumpy old cynic. :thumbup:

I can be a grumpy old cynic on many occasions but, having been almost forced to take daily exercise in lieu of **** all else to do, I've noticed more people I encounter will say hello than before this shitstorm. It seems to have made us more aware of others because we're all in the same boat.

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On 01/04/2020 at 14:29, fuchsntf said:

My Village & quite a few around Rheinland pfalz.& Other regions.Germany

The Local Councils have Set up 3 times a Week Testing periods,for people who consider they have symptoms relevant to CV...

Local TV ,Radio and Village & Town Weekly/daily Papers informing the public of times and tel.nrs..

 

Is anything like this being done in UK..??

 

I asked this a Week ago,has there been anything organised,..Test Centers etc in the UK..??

so People know they have somewhere to go to,or worry about  having to bog down their  Local GP surgeries..

I Haven heard Too much on the UK news...

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Husband and wife creating free visors for frontline NHS staff receive 30k orders in 48 hours
'Nurses were making visors with things like used coke bottles and I thought this is ridiculous'


ByChris Jones
04:00, 8 APR 2020

A couple creating protective visors for frontline NHS staff say they have been inundated with orders.

Darren and Melissa Botterill have set about creating the protective equipment, which they are giving away for free.

Darren, 49, owns a business called Smashgard Window Film, which has been in operation since 2005.

After the Government's announcement telling people to stay at home, he had to postpone a lot of planned work and found himself wanting to do something with the materials he had to help the NHS.

"It was the Friday before Boris announced the lockdown, and we saw everything that was going on in Italy," he said.

"My wife was next to me crying her eyes out, and I felt scared, so I started doing some research.

"Nurses were making visors with things like used Coke bottles and I thought, 'This is ridiculous, these are professional people doing all they can to help others and they're resorting to things like this for safety'."


So he decided to try and do something about it.

Darren said he always had a stock of certain films at his business and thought that the materials could be used to make visors.

So using a film that can survive bomb blasts, he set about trying to use it to create a visor.

His plan worked; all he needed was foam and elastic to complete the design.

Darren pitched his idea to two companies, Lancaster Rubber, in Lancaster, for the foam strips, and Nova Trimmings, in Birmingham, for the elastic.

After hearing what he had to say they decided to donate some materials to him for free, with local company Nelsons Packaging, of Thurmaston, donating boxes in which the products could be distributed.

Then it was a case of finding out if this was something NHS staff would want.

"I spoke to a number of [NHS] staff in Loughborough and said, 'This is my idea', and they said yes," he said.

"So after that, I put a shoutout on Facebook saying if anyone wants one we will make it.

"I was expecting 200 to 300 orders, but so far in 48 hours we have had about 30,000 orders."

'Let's all work together and help these people'
Melissa, 40, takes the orders and delivers to frontline staff, while Darren makes the visors himself as quickly as he can.

He said he can make around 50 to 60 a day, making the order of 30,000 not entirely realistic.

So again he took to social media to urge other window film companies in the UK, and across the world, to get involved to help create the protective equipment that frontline medical staff so urgently need.

"We want people to come and join us, let's all work together and help these people," he said.

On Sunday morning, he said, around 16 other companies agreed to start making the masks.

"These are all my competitors, but that doesn't matter," said Darren. "We're all working together to get the NHS the help they need."

He also said that he had been contacted by two German companies who were interested in making visors free of charge.

On Tuesday morning he again put an appeal out on social media, this time asking parents if their children would like to put their own special message on a visor.

More than 50 people replied with heartfelt messages.


Darren Botterill and his wife Melissa have begun to create protective visors for NHS staff and so far have received around 30,000 requests. (Image: Darren Botterill)
One came from an eight-year-old named Skylar, whose message was: "You saved our lives. Now let us help save yours."

Another message read: "Every hero wears one of these love Brooke 6 and Faye 3 xx."

Darren said he and his wife were not making masks for money or glory. They just wanted to do all they could to help those who needed it.

The couple sent out 25 visors to a hospital in Leicester at the weekend and plan to send another 50 to staff at Leicester Royal Infirmary this weekend.

They are urging any companies who have the means to help to get in contact so the 30,000 requests can be met.

 

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/husband-wife-creating-visors-frontline-4024486

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Leicester hospitals' £350m debt written off by Government (Taxpayers)
'This is very welcome news and will enable us to focus on dealing with the immediate pressures of savings lives'


ByAmy OrtonLocal Democracy Reporter
04:00, 8 APR 2020

Historic debts to the tune of £350 million will be wiped from the balance sheet of Leicester’s hospitals as part of Government plans to help the NHS respond to the coronavirus pandemic.

It comes after Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced last week that £13.4 billion of NHS trust’s old debts would be written off to take pressure off the health service as it battles with the pandemic.

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, the fourth largest such trust in England, will have its debts cleared as part of the plans.

Simon Lazarus, interim chief financial officer at Leicester’s hospitals, said: “The writing off of historic debt is very welcome news and will enable us to focus on dealing with the immediate pressures of savings lives, and to look forward to a brighter and financially sustainable future.”

East Midlands Ambulance Service will also see more than £14m of historic loans wiped from its accounts.


Announcing the plans last week, Mr Hancock said: “As we tackle this crisis, nobody in our health service should be distracted by their hospital’s past finances.

“This £13.4 billion debt write-off will wipe the slate clean, and allow NHS hospitals to plan for the future and invest in vital services.

“I remain committed to providing the NHS with whatever it needs to tackle coronavirus, and the changes to the funding model will give the NHS immediate financial certainty to plan and deliver their emergency response.”


The changes will provide much-needed financial support during the coronavirus pandemic and are part of a package of major reforms to the NHS financial system, designed in a collaboration which started this financial year between the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and NHS England.

DHSC said that the change would mean health trusts would get all the necessary funding to carry out their emergency response, despite many hospitals cancelling or limiting their usual services such as elective surgery or walk-in clinics due to the virus.

Notes explaining the process state that the debt being effectively written off is a transaction within the DHSC group, and the move will not create additional borrowing or fiscal cost for the Exchequer.


The Coronavirus pods at the George Eliot Hospital
It is understood that Nuneaton's George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust, which is used by many people in the south of Leicestershire, will also have £91,000 worth of debt written off.

Bosworth MP Dr Luke Evans, who is a GP, said “A new government, a new funding model and a clean slate mean that our local hospitals will have the means to get through this pandemic and provide first rate care for years into the future.”

It was announced last year that Leicester's hospitals were being given £450m for a massive revamp of local hospitals and health services.

 

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/leicester-hospitals-350m-debt-written-4028889

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War veteran, 99, leaves hospital after treatment

 

A 99-year-old war veteran from Doncaster has left hospital fit and well after recovering from coronavirus.

Albert Chambers, who will be 100 in July, was admitted to Doncaster Royal Infirmary after a fall but then developed symptoms of Covid-19.

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