Matt Hancock yesterday urged seriously ill patients to contact their GP amid fears that thousands of cancers are going undetected. The Health Secretary stressed that the NHS was still open for anyone with non-coronavirus symptoms, especially those with suspected tumours, heart attacks and strokes. His statement in the Commons came after the Daily Mail yesterday … Read more
Matt Hancock tonight insisted the coronavirus lockdown must stay until there is no risk of a second peak – as scientists warned the outbreak might not be fading. The Health Secretary vowed not to compromise the national effort against the disease as Professor Jonathan Van-Tam told the daily Downing Street briefing that while hospital occupancy rates … Read more
Matt Hancock‘s target of testing 100,000 people a day for coronavirus ‘could come back and bite him’, Downing Street sources have reportedly warned. The health secretary made the pledge on April 2 at a daily coronavirus press briefing, saying by May 1, Britain should be testing people at the rate of 100,000-a-day. Currently the British Government … Read more
Britain’s coronavirus testing programme appears to be in crisis – as health bosses have just ten days to increase the number of daily swabs fivefold. Ministers yesterday insisted they will hit their target of testing 100,000 people a day by the end of April. But just 21,626 tests were performed on Saturday – the highest … Read more
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has appointed a ‘personal protective equipment tsar’ to take on the shortage of supplies across NHS trusts in the UK. Lord Deighton, 64, has been appointed to get a grip on the situation, as thousands of doctors and nurses across the country are being forced to work without the correct PPE. … Read more
Health chiefs today confronted Matt Hancock over his claims NHS staff are not coming forward for coronavirus tests as they told him sick nurses were driving two hours to testing centres only be told to come back another day. Dame Donna Kinnair, the chief executive and general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, said … Read more
This morning the government’s carefully constructed strategy for dealing with coronavirus fell apart when Health Secretary Matt Hancock lost his temper in two media confrontations. First, a feisty exchange with the Today programme’s Nick Robinson, and then on ITV’s Good Morning Britain he exploded in a combative exchange with Piers Morgan. Two meltdowns in less … Read more
Farce as care home workers are ‘made to pay £1.20’ for Matt Hancock’s new ‘badge of honour’ as website to order them CRASHES… while hard-hit sector is still crying out for PPE and testing Health Secretary last revealed care sector badge similar to the one for the NHS Came as sector complained that it has … Read more
Close relatives will be able to say goodbye to their loved ones as they die from coronavirus, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said yesterday afternoon. He said that wanting to be with a friend or relative at the end of life was ‘one of the deepest human instincts.’ Mr Hancock added that ‘wherever possible’ people will be given … Read more
A British company offering a million coronavirus tests a week has not been taken up on their offer by Public Health England, it is claimed. Apacor, based in Berkshire, has approval from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency for supplying coronavirus antigen tests and says they could ‘do 150,000 [tests] tomorrow’ but they’re just … Read more