I was very pleased to also be able to pop in to see the District Nurses today who have also done such an extraordinary job in this time.
They’ve dealt with 12,000 nursing contacts, mostly face to face but also telephone consultations. Listen to this, in this time, in the time since we declared the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Primary Care Centre have dealt with 24,155 patient contacts, with that figure including the 111 call line and those called to inform them of negative results. I sincerely felt that the numbers they were dealing with showed how remarkable the service that they have provided has been. I also want to especially thank Dr Valerie Flores for her attention this morning as she outlined to me what the new protocols were for the operation of the facility. I want to thank Rose Suissa, a veteran of all our Primary Care Centres since they started in the early 1970s for her guidance in the establishment of that new facility.Īnd Suzanne Romero for the work that she has done in bringing this new facility into operation. We have to ensure that we cement the advances that our medical professionals in Primary Care have delivered.Īnd I must say that I was very proud and pleased indeed to see this new facility in operation. I think we are now providing an incredibly modern and efficient service that our GPs, all our Primary Care staff and our citizens deserve and that we should further invest in going forward. Elaine Pincho, who eloquently talked me through how they are doing some phone consultations with members of our whole community, not just the elderly.
I want to thank each and every one of them, not least Dr. This new facility has enabled is to put in place social distancing and to put in place different mechanisms for our GPs to see patients.Īnd our GPs and Primary Care staff have stepped up in a remarkable way. They are really now in a great environment in that new facility that has really, really, come into its own. I visited the GHA, where the posture is moving towards the unlocking that we have proposed.Īs a result, I have been able to express my gratitude and the gratitude of the whole Government and indeed of the whole community to the people on the medical front line. Today I went to see the people who made this a reality. Of all of the things I have led on as Chief Minister, that record, as we come towards the beginning of PHASE 2 of our plan to de-escalate and Unlock the Rock, is undoubtedly the one of which I am proudest. Our Nightingale facility remains a COVID-19 patient virgin.Īnd our COVID ICU and OUR COVIDJOHN WARD at St Bernard’s remain empty of COVID-19 patients. I will never tire of saying that we have had no deaths to date. The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 remains 147 and the number of active cases is therefore still only 3. We have now carried out almost 5,000 tests for COVID-19. I want to start though, by giving you today’s updated statistics. Today, I will concentrate my time, before Dr Cassaglia addresses us, on the GHA and on ERS. This afternoon I am joined by Doctor Daniel Cassaglia who will be providing us with some of the detail of the Nightingale facility and the new Laboratory set up at the University.īoth of these facilities are going to be a very important part of our forward-looking posture as we transition to living with COVID-19 in the background. Good afternoon and welcome once again to No 6 Convent Place to our daily information conference.
#FLORES SPRESS FULL#
Here’s the full statement from the Chief Minister from this afternoon’s COVID-19 briefing: Chief Minister’s Press Information Conference - Friday
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