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

Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust was caring for three patients with coronavirus in hospital as of Wednesday, figures show.
By Andrew Dowdeswell, Data Reporter
Published 24th Mar 2023, 11:13 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 three patients with coronavirus in hospital as of Wednesday, figures show.

NHS England data shows the number of people being treated in hospital with Covid-19 by 8am on March 22 was down from seven on the same day the previous week.

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

Across England there were 8,387 people in hospital with Covid as of March 22, with 172 of them in mechanical ventilation beds.

Nationally, the number of hospital patients with Covid-19 has increased by 5% in the last four weeks, while the number on mechanical ventilators has increased by 5%.

The figures also show that no new patients with Covid were admitted to hospital in Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust in the week to March 20. This was down from one in the previous seven days.