Borough's infection rates fluctuating up and down
Positive tests remain high in some areas
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Greenford has not been one of the neighbourhoods I have been checking daily. A reader pointed out that rates have been consistently high in Greenford. However recently they have fallen. Currently Southall Green has the highest rate I can find in Ealing at 148/100,000 people. Rates are generally stable in Ealing neighbourhoods. There are some small increases in some neighbourhoods and one wonders whether this reflects the increased testing taking place in schools. The Ealing rate is 61.7 and is the second highest in London.
Ealing Hospital and Northwick Park Hospital A&E Departments Rated the Best Performing in England
For the first time ever these two hospitals have beaten all other NHS hospitals in England in meeting four hour treatment targets in their A&E departments. They see over 2,000 A&E patients every week.
As of the week ending 14 March 2021, the number of new Covid-19 admissions to both hospitals was 19 patients. This is a drop of 42.5% on the previous week.
Fighting Covid-19 at Ealing Hospital
Fatima Shabir, a 25 year old Intensive Care Nurse, tells her story about working in a Covid-19 Ward at Ealing Hospital. View this at: www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-london-56447842
Age UK Ealing Offers Covid-19 Response ‘Befriending’ Service
Thanks to a £145,000 grant from City Bridge Trust, Age UK Ealing staff and volunteers are telephoning vulnerable elderly people up to three times a week. It’s a three year Grant funded programme and when Covid-19 restrictions are lifted, face-to-face services will be introduced.
More at: www.ageuk.org.uk/ealing 020 8578 2712
Council Virtual Meeting Technology Failure Invalidates Perceval House Development Decision
The Council’s second attempt on 10 March 2021 at pushing through the demolition of Perceval House and the erection of a 26 storey residential tower on the site has been thwarted by a Council technology failure. Because residents couldn’t view Councillors voting in the Planning Committee meeting this broke Covid-19 response virtual meeting guidelines. So the vote for the application is now null and void. The Council appears to be trying to rush through a third attempt at the meeting before the end of March 2021. (The first meeting attempt on 17 February 2021, failed as concern was expressed about too few 3 bed homes and the meeting was abandoned at that point).
Eric Leach
eric.alan.leach@gmail.com
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March 24, 2021
