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Beijing has ordered people returning to the city from holidays to quarantine themselves for 14 days to try to contain the coronavirus spread, as the death toll in China from the outbreak passed 1,500.
On Saturday, the country’s National Health Commission said 2,641 new cases were confirmed in the previous 24 hours, taking the total number of confirmed infections across mainland China to 66,492. There were also 143 deaths in the 24 hours to midnight on Friday, taking total fatalities from the virus to 1,523.
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My GP practice had the foresight to send a text rather than wait for people to turn up at the surgery, but there are still some problems with the message:
If you have flu-like symptoms and/or have recently visited China, Asia, Thailand, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and Macau or may have come into contact with someone potentially affected by Coronavirus. Please do not attend the surgery. Please self-isolate at home and call 111 for gu
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Originally posted by ad hoc View PostIf they'd just said Asia, rather than Asia and a number of countries which are in Asia, they may have had the space left to finish the sentence. Gunpowder? Gummy bears? Guardian subscription? Gusset? Guitar strings?
*Kids**, please don't call 111 for gummy bears.
**Adults, knock yourself out.
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Message from my GP on 31st January said:
"If you or a family member have flown back from China in the last 2 weeks and you feel unwell with flu-like symptoms, PLEASE DO NOT ATTEND THE SURGERY. Please stay at home and call us on 01xxx xxxxxxx. Tell the care navigator you have returned from China and a GP will call you with further instructions. Thank you for your cooperation."
Anyone heard of a "care navigator" before?? Is this just a new word for GP receptionist?
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https://www.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/care-navigation
Care navigation
Effective navigation is important to providing coordinated person-centred care and support. Care navigation is an emerging idea in the UK, with a growing evidence demonstrating benefits for patients and carers.Care navigators can occupy many roles and play a crucial part in helping people get the right support, at the right time, to help manage a wide range of needs.
We have developed a three tiered care navigation competency framework (PDF 308.77kb), which describes the core competencies for people providing care navigation across a wide range of health, social and voluntary care sectors.
The framework was informed by many perspectives, from different organisations across the UK and recognises three successive levels; essential, enhanced and expert.
The framework can help provide a 'common language' and coherent approach to providing care navigation, and help ensure relevant staff receive necessary education, training and support to work effectively.
This may be used by employers, education providers, individuals and commissioners to inform education and training needs and provision.
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At a GP surgery, care navigators are basically receptionists, but surgeries now employing GPs, nurses, ANPs (nurses who can prescibe) UCPs (usually former paramedics), physicians associates, physics, podiatrists, psychologists, social prescribers, health care assistants etc. So a) it's a recognition that receptionist work is more complicated and b) hopefully it will encourage people who are making an appointment to tell the receptionist/care navigators their symptoms which makes it more likely that people get seen as and when they need.
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15th February update:
67,193 cases, 1,527 deaths.
Interesting article about the steps being taken by African countries to prepare: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-51403865
There should soon be 29 laboratories across the continent capable of testing for Covid-19.
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16th February update:
69,290 cases, 1,671 deaths. Almost 10% of the passengers and crew on the Diamond Princess have tested positive now. The US plans to evacuate 400 of its citizens who are on board and then place them in a further two weeks of quarantine back home.
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No idea of the provenance of this source - xinhua.net - but if this is accurate it sounds like reasonable news
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/202..._138792403.htm
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