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BBC Health Correspondent, Producer & Presenter. Royal Television Society Journalist of the Year. Producer/Director: The Wahine Disaster
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Paramedics break off picket line to respond to emergency call
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The nurses strike picket line outside the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle has grown from a handful at dawn - to more than 100.
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Hundreds of junior doctors marching through Newcastle on last day of strike action
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New Zealand votes for its bird of the year - one known for being
drunk and falling out of trees
#kereru
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Jeremy Corbyn in Newcastle tonight ends his speech with a poem about hope..
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Around 100 Doctors on the picket line at Newcastle’s RVI
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Breaking:
@NHSEngland
strikes deal with private hospitals to battle
#Covid_19
.
Nearly 20,000 staff to join NHS.
"The deal, the first of its kind ever' will mean 8,000 more hospital beds, nearly 1200 more ventilators, 10,000 nurses, over 700 doctors, & over 8,000 other staff.
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Empty beds in covid wards ❤️
9 covid wards were full at
@NewcastleHosps
Today, as patients go home - the last covid ward has closed - returning to treat non-covid.
As lockdown and vaccination sees patient numbers drop from a high of 165 to just 12 (in isolated rooms)
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North Tees Hospital is extremely busy - they are treating DOUBLE the number of
#covid
patients than they were at the peak of the first wave. 159 tonight.
The trust "desperate for all our population to adhere to national rules - to reduce the pressure on the Trust"
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James Cook University Hospital
#Middlesbrough
now let children needing surgery - drive themselves to the operating theatre.
Alfie loved it!
Full story tonight on
@BBCLN
@SouthTees
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All EU staff employed by Newcastle Hospitals told the trust will pay £65 application fee for them to seek settled status in UK
@NewcastleHosps
employs around 400 staff from EU & believes first trust in the UK to make such an offer.
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It had to happen I guess..
After reporting on 500 stories since Dec 19 (mainly Covid),
I see first-hand what it’s like to test positive 😳
Thinking of all those who’ve been impacted by Covid - patients, families, & amazing
#NHS
medical teams
- and so grateful for the vaccines
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The mesmerising machine that has just started up, and can do more than 3,000
#COVID19
tests a day.
Gateshead Hospital will be able to be do more than 6,000 tests a day - from next week. More tonight
@QEGateshead
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Crucial though will be getting the immune response in older population
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Newcastle United to donate all the food that would have been on sale during tomorrow's game - to the city's West End Foodbank - including more than a thousand pies.
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When you get to walk along the beautiful Northumberland coast before a late shift ❤️
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Dawn at Tynemouth, taken by my lovely freind Dawn.
Dawn’s Dawn
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Exclusive: The
@GNairambulance
first in the world to trial jet suits for paramedics - responding to emergency call outs in the Lake District
@BBCBreakfast
@BBCNEandCumbria
@BBCNews
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“It is a bittersweet moment”
Says the doctor in charge of the vaccine rollout in Sunderland..
“My father passed away with Covid, and I wish he was alive to be offered the vaccine”
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The best news imaginable -
An exclusive report on Grace - who has waited for two years for a Heart
#transplant
❤️
@BBCNEandCumbria
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Among the fans at the
@NUFC
game were doctors - who raced to help save the life of the supporter who’d collapsed with a heart attack
But Emergency Medicine Consultant
@JosephCosgrove7
praises actions of a nurse from
@QEGateshead
who played a crucial role
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“It is an emergency - something has to be done”
President of Royal College of Psychiatrists calls on Government for public inquiry led by high court judge on hospitals failing
#mentalhealth
patients.
See my investigation tonight
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Tonight the extraordinary journey to get 2 tonnes of medical kit and 4 North East ambulances to the Ukrainian frontline,
thanks to
@NEAmbulance
@QEGateshead
@NewcastleHosps
@NorthumbriaNHS
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I love my job. Meeting extraordinary people like this. Suzanne’s son Liam died suddenly. He was 17. Today she felt his heart beating in Alex. His life was saved.
@WTGF_Games
@NewcastleHosps
@NHSBT
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Last day with
@BBCNews
at 6/10.
Here at a time of huge stories:
Tragedy of the Greek Migrant boat
Boris Johnson leaves/Partygate report
Covid Inquiry
The missing Titan sub
& attempted coup in Russia
And working with such a talented team of Poducers/presenters/correspondents
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NEW: Public Health England
@PHE_uk
confirm they are NOT investigating a new variant in the North East
"The rise in cases in the North East is consistent with the rise in DELTA infections across the country which account for the vast majority of cases. Routine surveillance ongoing
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Beware: latest Royal Mail Scam Alert -
let others know..
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What’s life like in the Emergency Department
@NewcastleHosps
?
@ChrisGibbins82
“The pressures are like nothing we have seen before — with patients in emergency dept waiting for beds …
most days we are starting with a full hospital of acutely unwell patients
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Taking people out of care homes and on an adventure
@CycleWithoutAge
comes to the North East, and 89 year old Vic loved it !
@cwa_newcastle
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Exclusive: 2 leading transplant surgeons reveal fears about a no-deal Brexit. Fears over continued access to children’s donor hearts from Europe “We rely on donors coming from Europe”
And anxiety over staff, as most transplant surgeons are not from the UK “the doors may close”
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@chrischirp
@Unusual_Times
@IndependentSage
Hi Christina: We have been watching this
The Delta variant: On 20/05 North Tyneside is among 6 areas of concern as 17 cases detected. Surge testing + vaccinations. Health bosses worry about areas of low uptake of vaccine esp. among harder to reach communities & younger adults..
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“It sounds like the people in Downing Street were routinely having parties,
and it sounds like they had ready supplies of booze - at times when people were really struggling to get supplies of drugs for their patients .. in hospital”
@thomasdolphin
@TheBMA
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Exclusive
@NewcastleHosps
First in the UK to use climate-friendly gas and air during labour.
Nitrous oxide is a powerful greenhouse gas, 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
Newcastle Hospitals first hospital in the world to declare a climate emergency.
Welcome Rosie ❤️
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This has been my work-home for much of 2023.
As News Correspondent & Health Correspondent,
and Producing
@BBCNews
at 6 and 10.
I’ll miss the remarkable team here who work relentlessly and rigorously to bring you the most important news each day
Time now to go back up North ❤️
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5 families -
all in desperate need of a donor heart for their children’s survival, plea for others to have “the conversation” around organ donation for children
Thanks for sharing your moving stories today,
and to the Freeman Hospital
@NewcastleHosps
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NEW vaccine news;
*All over 40s should be offered a third dose of a Covid vaccine
Evidence suggests chances of testing positive for Covid fall by more than 80% 2 weeks after a booster.
*JVCI also said 16 and 17 year olds, who were offered only a single dose can now get a 2nd
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For 4 years Pixiebelle was on chemotherapy - to treat her brain tumour, but it wasn’t working.
Running out of options, she was put on the international Firefly trial at
@NewcastleHosps
.
She takes 5 pills every Friday. Her tumour is shrinking.
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Reporting from a newly designed hospital ward - solely for covid patients.
@NewcastleHosps
created this with ITU bays and air locks, freeing up ITU space.
First patients in next few days
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More good news on vaccines front - especially for Teesside:
•Novavax phase 3 trial data in UK shows it to be 89.3% effective - as well as efficacy against new UK variant
•UK has secured 60 million doses, with manufacturing set to take place in Billingham on Teesside
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Gateshead and Newcastle
#NHS
hospital laboratories alone were geared up for processing 10,000 tests a day - - but tests going to newly created labs at MIlton Keynes -
now this ?
Coronavirus: UK sent 50,000 Covid-19 samples to US for testing
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In a world first, paramedics are now flying in the Lake District with jet suits - in a trial mission -
In the Summer they plan to offer an “urgent casualty response to “drastically improve patient stability and survivability”
@GNairambulance
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What were you doing at 25..?
Louis - a junior doctor was moved to work in one of the busiest ITU/ Covid wards ..
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Emergency Cobra meeting on
#Coronavirus
.
Government will consider banning big events, closing schools and home working.
It comes after man in his 60s becomes UK's third death linked to
#Covid
virus.
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NEW: And positive news from our hospitals:
I am hearing many have seen NO Covid admissions this week. Less than 40 patients now in hospital across the whole of the North East and Cumbria.
9 remain in intensive care.
They were coping with thousands of patients.
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The hunt is on to find the lovely bus driver who spotted Great North Air Ambulance medics running to reach a patient.
And who told them to hop aboard...
Recognise this bus company in Dunston?
Our aircraft couldn't land exactly where our patient was, leaving our crew running to get to the scene.
A bus driver spotted our crew and stopped to ask if they needed a ride.
Please help us track down this legend and say thank you! 🙏💚
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Exclusive: The story of a top Accident and Emergency consultant, who was preparing to fight
#coronavirus
as a doctor - but who suddenly found himself in hospital - as one of the first patients ..
his story tonight
@BBCLN
@NewcastleHosps
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This is the vision..
Big today for
@NewcastleHosps
as planning permission to build new children’s heart unit at the RVI site is announced
Moving everything from Freeman hospital incl child heart transplant
It was the only way children’s heart ops could stay in region
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Covid news doesn’t get much better than this:
After assessing safety reports of nearly 7 million doses -
drugs regulator finds the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines are extremely safe.
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After 4 years of hope -
Look what’s arrived in the post for Harriet
#Orkambi
-
for her Cystic Fibrosis
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The reactions in London when I talk about how beautiful it is in the North ..
I do love London,
but we can have breakfast views like …
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Broadcasting live from Gateshead Ambulance station
@BBCNews
@BBCBreakfast
@bbc5live
@BBCNEandCumbria
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"With Omicron now spreading so rapidly in the community – and daily cases nearing 200,000 – the pressure this is placing on the NHS, through staff absences and rising hospitalisations, is becoming unsustainable" Talking to
@TheBMA
this afternoon.
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MISSING: Betty is 79 and missing from Benton in Newcastle. She has Alzheimer's and could be in a confused state.
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A Pop-Up walk-in vaccine site has just opened for over-18s at the Centre for Life in Newcastle.
500 tickets a day - available at the door.
There may even be music..
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In a UK first, 18-month old Grace has a mobile Berlin Heart ..
Which means - after a year of being tethered to a big machine to keep her alive - her mum can at last take her on an outing..
as she awaits her
#HeartTransplant
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Today
@NHSEngland
rolls out new rapid high-dose radiotherapy treatments for
#cancer
- which can radically reduce amount of treatments needed.
@cpeedell
wrote to
@MattHancock
and today we are filming how it works at James Cook Hospital
@SouthTees
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When Gail and Matthew were told their daughter had Batten Disease they were told there was no cure - she wouldn’t live to see her teens. They now have two daughters with the condition. Today they heard a pioneering drug that “halts the disease in its tracks” will be funded by NHS
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Big it up for the vaccines team at the Station View Medical Centre - Bishop Auckland, County Durham
They are vaccinating non stop through the night - for 36 hours !
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These last few weeks have been intense, hunched over multiple screens - typing, searching and editing - to meet news deadlines.
But occasionally I looked up,
This was the view from my desk
@BBCNews
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Breaking: Children’s Heart Surgery and Child Heart Transplant secured in
#Newcastle
after Government announces £42m to help move services from the Freeman Hospital to Great North Children’s Hospital at Royal Victoria Infirmary - more tomorrow
@NewcastleHosps
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First emergency medic in the world - that can fly..
Great to interview paramedic Andy about
@GNairambulance
plans to use jet suits in medical emergencies in the Lake District ..
So what does “lift off” feel like ?
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Breaking: A Nightingale Hospital for the North East has been confirmed.
We’ve been reporting on the work at the IAMP site near Nissan in Sunderland for weeks - when plans were apparently suddenly “paused” but today Government
@NHSEngland
will confirm. Up to 500 beds.
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More on one of the country’s first dedicated vaccine-bus services to the Nightingale North hospital - now major vaccine centre:
The bus service will be 7 days a week, from 5am until around midnight. And it’s free
@MartijnGNE
@gonortheast
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Up to 100,000 protective visors to be sent to NHS workers fighting COVID-19 every week from the Nissan plant in Sunderland. (next to the Nightingale Hospital)
A team of volunteers have created a processing line ..
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The ambulances donated by
@NEAmbulance
were in use within hours of being delivered,
after missile strikes nearby -
just over the border in Ukraine
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@24vickiebishop
Sean McNulty was jailed for more than two years after admitting ill-treating two residents. The unit has been placed into special measures after a CQC inspection, and patients are being moved out.
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This was end of March - we hoped it was nearly over.
Today around 40 Covid patients are being treated at
@NewcastleHosps
- 6 on mechanical ventilation.
More than 200 covid patients in hospitals across the North East - deaths now being reported.
Take care this weekend
Empty beds in covid wards ❤️
9 covid wards were full at
@NewcastleHosps
Today, as patients go home - the last covid ward has closed - returning to treat non-covid.
As lockdown and vaccination sees patient numbers drop from a high of 165 to just 12 (in isolated rooms)
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As hospitals work to catch up on patient screening backlogs..
Gateshead Hospital becomes first NHS org in Europe to get this new breast screening system.
Designed to be much more comfortable, with subtle mood lighting.
Joanne is lead radiographer
@Gateshead_NHS
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Doctors & medical teams across the North East are organising huge supply of medical/surgical supplies to send urgently to Ukraine. Vladislav a doctor was born in Ukraine.
Full story
@BBCNEandCumbria
@NTeesHpoolNHSFT
@NewcastleHosps
@NorthumbriaNHS
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NEW:
NHS staff in South Tyneside and Sunderland among the first to receive the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine - reporting live at 6:30
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I do think though that Dominic Cummings
@OdysseanProject
owes an explanation to the people of the North East - and County Durham especially.
I hope you can do an interview with us
@BBCLN
- remotely, obviously
(don’t drive up for it !)
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Not only Newcastle - but right across North East ..
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I don’t know what it’s like finding a place to edit in London,
but we’ve stopped to edit our tv reports here ..
#LakeDistrict
❤️
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The news of the new
#CysticFibrosis
drugs now on
@NHSEngland
was huge for families ..
But what do the doctors say ? “Probably the best news” - in 30 years of treating the condition
@NewcastleHosps
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As the Delta variant takes over all cases in Newcastle we hear from
@NewcastleHosps
and
@davidashprice
Seeing increase in COVID patients “we are getting patients every day. And younger
So another wave (4th for the North) just don’t know what impact it will have
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Who knows what our future will bring?
Today I’m working on an exclusive story about Bill Steel:
Coronation Street, comedian, TV News and Radio presenter
But Bill’s wife died from covid
Bill has advanced dementia
His son is now his sole carer
See the full report at 6:30 BBC
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