Face coverings will become compulsory in hospitals for all staff, visitors and outpatients from June 15, Matt Hancock revealed today. Medical and other staff will have to wear surgical masks at all times, the Health Secretary announced tonight. Visitors and outpatients attending appointments will not be allowed in without wearing the sort of face coverings that … Read more
Nearly 20,000 hospital patients – most of whom hadn’t been tested for coronavirus – were discharged into care homes during the first weeks of lockdown, it emerged yesterday. Up until April 16, government guidelines said patients should be released into care homes – even if they had tested positive for Covid-19. Official public health guidance … Read more
Revealed: NHS hospitals treat 300 patients a week in A&E who are injured in DIY accidents (with at least one person a day hurt mowing the lawn) NHS figures show 6,867 people treated after falling from a ladder in 12 months Another 466 were injured while mowing lawns from last April to March this year … Read more
The controversial ‘R’ rate of the coronavirus is lower than previously revealed, much closer to 0.5 in the community as a whole, newly released documents show The controversial ‘R’ rate of the coronavirus is far lower than previously revealed, newly released documents show. Government scientists have refused to break down the reproduction value, known as R0, … Read more
More than 70 percent of hospitalized coronavirus patients who died in one Louisiana health system were black, a disturbing new study found. Of the patients hospitalized for COVID-19, more than 76 percent were black. Only about a third of the community served by the Ochsner Health system is black. The new research, published in the … Read more
He has been keeping fans entertained, motivated and encouraged throughout the COVID-19 lockdowns on social media. And Matthew McConaughey and his wife, Camila Alves, went one step further on Friday, taking to the streets to deliver 110,000 masks to those in need. The 50-year-old took to social media to open up about their charity initiate … Read more
A shamed intensive care doctor who faced career ruin after he illicitly pocketed extra cash by secretly working at two hospitals at the same time has been allowed back to work after the NHS said it needed his help to treat Covid 19 patients. Consultant anaesthetist John Bleasdale, 54, had been suspended from duty for … Read more
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro was filmed performing press ups with his supporters at an anti-lockdown protest on Sunday as Sao Paulo’s hospitals are said to be ‘near collapse’ in the battle against covid-19. Mayor of Sao Paulo Bruno Covas, who is leading the response in Brazil‘s most-populous city, today warned that the city’s health service is on … Read more
The devastating toll of the Government’s ‘disastrous’ policy of encouraging care homes to take patients with coronavirus is revealed today. Grieving relatives told of their ‘agony and anger’ at losing elderly loved ones because of the strategy, which they say ‘abandoned an entire generation.’ Care home managers also complained that they had been ‘pressured’ into … Read more
Doctors in the UK have shared their fears over 250 ventilators purchased from China and called for their ‘withdrawal and replacement’. Medical experts from the Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust warned that the Shangrila 510 model, made by Chinese firm Beijing Aeonmed Co. Ltd., caused ‘significant patient harm including death’ if used in a … Read more