Woman becomes first healthcare cyberattack death after German hospital was forced to turn her away when hackers deactivated their computers Woman died en route to another hospital after being turned away from first one Dusseldorf’s University Clinic couldn’t admit her because its systems were down The cause was a Sept. 10 cyberattack that the hospital … Read more
Healthcare professionals with so-called ‘long Covid’ are urging the government to take the condition seriously as they add their voices to the thousands of people suffering from lasting effects of the virus weeks, and even months, after their first symptoms. Junior anesthetist Linn Järte, of Swansea and GP Amy Small are among those sharing their often … Read more
The British Government has today announced it is investing £32million into cutting-edge healthcare technology. They will be formally announced by Science Minister, Amanda Solloway, MP for Derby North, later today at the launch of London Tech Week. It includes funding for six pieces of healthcare technology at the very forefront of medicine and could offer … Read more
A Florida healthcare worker may lose her hands after a long and arduous five-month battle against the novel coronavirus. Rose Felipe, 41, an EEG technician of more than 15 years at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, contacted the virus in early March. Her condition quickly deteriorated and she was hospitalized, spending two months on a … Read more
Thousands of NHS workers are taking to the streets of the UK to protest against their exclusion from a recent public sector pay rise announcement. Anger is mounting as NHS workers were overlooked in the latest round of public sector pay rises – despite more than 500 NHS and social care staff dying from Covid-19. Unite, … Read more
Charity and think tank Future Care Capital has teamed up with RYSE Asset Management to launch a fund investing in innovative early-stage healthcare companies. It has already funded an in house start-up e-learning platform for unpaid carers and an NHS prescriptions management app. Andrew Whelan is founding chairman of Future Care Capital and director of … Read more
Lockdown ’caused up to 21,000 extra deaths – many due to reduced access to healthcare’, shocking study claims Almost 2,700 people more than normal died during eight weeks of restrictions Report claims many died because they were unable to get urgent healthcare A&E attendances halved, while cancer referrals had plunged by 70 per cent By … Read more
Cheerful Charles! Prince of Wales is seen cracking jokes with healthcare workers in St Austell as he and Duchess of Cornwall continue their annual tour of their dukedom Prince Charles, 71, cracked out the jokes as he met with healthcare staff today The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall visited St Austell’s GP surgery to pay thanks … Read more
200,000 people could die because of delays in healthcare and economic effects of coronavirus lockdown, report warns The UK has so far suffered 45,318 Covid-19 deaths since lockdown was imposed Report says that more than 200,000 people could die due to healthcare delays Experts estimate up to 12,000 more could die in the next year … Read more
UK has had more Covid-19 healthcare worker deaths than any country in the world except Russia At least 540 staff have died in England and Wales compared with Russia’s 545 Amnesty International found 3,000 health workers have died in 79 countries It added that this figure is likely to be a ‘significant under-estimate’ Government officials said … Read more