Message from the Metro North Health Incident Controller – COVID-19 update 394 | 20/04/2022
Dear colleagues,
- Tier four status update
- COVID-19 staff debrief survey
- Friday’s vidcast
Today there were 8,995 new COVID-19 cases recorded in Queensland.
Tier four status update
Metro North Health remains at tier four of our COVID response plan. Our COVID response tier will be reviewed and reassessed again tomorrow morning.
Across our health service today, there are 667 health workers and staff unable to attend work because of COVID-19 reasons. This continues to have significant impacts on many clinical areas.
We’re grateful to the 107 staff who have agreed to come back to work through the Critically Essential Worker process. This process is not appropriate for everyone, but if you are a close contact and think it may be an option for you, please talk to your line manager.
COVID-19 staff debrief survey
Today, we’re launching the next part of our debriefing process around our COVID-19 response. The COVID-19 staff debrief survey is a short questionnaire that asks for your reflections, feedback, and ideas about what we have learnt from the pandemic. The survey only takes about four minutes and your input will play a critical part in the development of our Transition to Recovery Plan. The survey will be open for the next two weeks. If you can, please take the survey today.
Friday’s vidcast
Our next vidcast will be this Friday at 10am. Metro North’s Chief Executive Jackie Hanson and Acting Executive Director Human Resources Peter Patmore will be available to answer your questions. If you can’t join live, recordings of previous COVID vidcasts and Executive vidcasts are available online.
Regards,
Louise O’Riordan
Metro North Health Incident Controller
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Current Metro North Health tier activated – Tier 4
Helpful links
- Register your positive RAT result
- Upload evidence of your vaccine or booster
- Vaccination locations
- Qld Health general COVID-19 page
- Metro North COVID-19 extranet
- COVID vidcast recordings on QHEPS
Metro North HHS – overview of cases*
| Patients managed by HHS | Fever clinics | ||||||
| Total in-patients | Virtual ward/ HITH/ similar | Deaths** | No. of clinics | Presentations | |||
| Total | ICU patients | Yesterday | |||||
| ICU not ventilated | ICU ventilated | ||||||
| 126 | 1 | 2 | 442 | 63 | 3 | 193 | |
Norfolk Island – overview of cases***
| Patients managed by HHS | Close Contacts in quarantine | ||||||
| Total in-patients | Virtual ward/ HITH/ similar | Total cases including recovered | Deaths | ||||
| Total | ICU patients | ||||||
| ICU not ventilated | ICU ventilated | ||||||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 232 | 0 | 11 | |
*As at the above date
**Metro North Health has recorded deaths (one person a return traveller into NSW, who passed away in NSW)
*** As part of an Intergovernmental Agreement, from 1 January 2022 Metro North Health is providing a number of health support services to Norfolk Island. This includes advice and support to staff on island in terms of managing COVID patients. The numbers in this section of the table refer to COVID patients who remain on Norfolk Island and are receiving direct care by staff on Norfolk Island.