Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust cares for 40 Covid-19 patients in hospital

By Andrew Dowdeswell, Data Reporter
Published 8th Apr 2022, 10:32 BST
Orderlies push a bed at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry.Orderlies push a bed at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry.
Orderlies push a bed at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry.
Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust was caring for 40 coronavirus patients in hospital as of Tuesday, figures show.

Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust was caring for 40 coronavirus patients in hospital as of Tuesday, figures show.

NHS England data shows the number of people being treated in hospital for Covid-19 by 8am on April 5 was down from 52 on the same day the previous week.

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There was one bed occupied by a Covid-19 patient four weeks ago in Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.

Across England there were 16,552 people in hospital with Covid as of April 5, with 319 of them in mechanical ventilation beds – though none were at Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust.

The number of Covid-19 patients hospitalised nationally has increased by 80% in the last four weeks, while the number on mechanical ventilators has increased by 32%.

The figures also show that 16 new Covid patients were admitted to hospital in Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust in the week to April 3. This was down from 17 in the previous seven days.