Doctors have called on the Government to divert the millions of pounds spent on the private firms behind the bungling NHS Test and Trace system to local health teams instead. The group claim ministers have overlooked the proven ability of local health teams in containing disease outbreaks, in favour of a centralised approach reliant on … Read more
Hospitals in Leeds and Edinburgh have been forced to cancel non-urgent operations in order to make room for coronavirus patients, it was revealed today. Leeds Teaching Hospitals – one of the biggest NHS trusts in England – said it now has more Covid-19 patients in its wards than at the peak of the first wave … Read more
Britain’s second wave of coronavirus lurched from being a handful of small outbreaks to penetrating the entire UK and forcing whole cities back into lockdown within just two months, according to a series of heatmaps that reveal just how quickly the outbreak has evolved. Covid infections hovered at 10 cases per 100,000 people across most … Read more
Ministers must start providing data on the ‘the real costs of Covid-19‘ on people’s lives, including throttling of NHS care and the economic impact of lockdown, a top Tory warned today. Sir Graham Brady said the Government had ‘a duty to take into account the best interests of the nation as a whole’ but could not … Read more
Boris Johnson insists he has ‘full confidence’ in Baroness Dido Harding despite continued failures of coronavirus test and trace regime she runs amid Tory calls for her to QUIT NHS Test and Trace service was supposed to be key to controlling the disease But the system last week hit a record low, prompting demands for … Read more
Another baby’s death at Morecambe Bay hospital trust sparks fresh concerns after it was slammed for ‘lethal mix’ of failings over deaths of 11 infants and one mother Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust was blasted for care failings five years ago Health watchdog is now reporting similar failings at one of its hospitals in 2017 Jenny … Read more
A clinically vulnerable mother has been threatened with a three-month prison sentence and a £2,500 fine because she refused to send her children back to school amid coronavirus. Katy Simpson, 29, chose to keep her son Damien and daughter Alisha, both six, at their home in Redcar when schools returned last month. She told teachers at Galileo … Read more
The NHS used half as many intensive care beds as France, Belgium and other badly-hit European nations during the Covid-19 crisis in the spring, according to figures that come amid shock claims the health service denied care to older patients to stop it becoming overwhelmed. At most, there were the equivalent of 50 infected patients … Read more
A cleaner from Essex who was the first known coronavirus patient in the UK has told of how she is still suffering from the effects of the disease, eight months on. Joanne Rogers, 51, from Colchester, Essex, became ill with flu-like symptoms in late January and spent two weeks in bed at home with the … Read more
Hospital patients will be able to order food to their bedside 24 hours a day under plan to revolutionise NHS meals following review led by Prue Leith Government issued the blueprint following a year-long review led by Prue Leith Kitchens will be upgraded so that food, snacks and hot drinks available 24 hours Would allow … Read more