Care home coronavirus deaths could be four times higher than official figures suggest
Speaking on ITV's Peston, Tobias Ellwood, the Conservative MP for Bournemouth East, raised concerns about coronavirus in care homes and...
Month: April 2020
Ventilators bought from China could have caused ‘significant harm including death’, clinicians say
The doctors warned that the ventilators' oxygen supply was "variable and unreliable" and said the build quality was "basic". They added...
Children do not seem to transmit coronavirus, Public Health England expert says
She added that while it was unclear why this was the case, it was informing consideration of reopening schools for...
Obese people can lose weight by wearing weighted vests, new study shows
Obese people can lose almost 4lbs in under a month by wearing weighted vests, according to a new academic study in...
These are the health workers who have died from coronavirus
Barbara Sage, 68, from Bromley in south London, died in intensive care last Sunday after spending more than 40 years working in...
Remdesivir could help end coronavirus lockdown despite failure of Chinese trials, scientists say
Asked whether it could help end some lockdown restrictions, Professor Max Parmar, director of the medical research council clinical trials...
More people going to work as coronavirus lockdown frays, ONS survey reveals
As the lockdown headed towards its fifth week on April 9, people across the country were continuing to use well-established...
Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness could be known in less than six weeks, says University of Oxford scientist
He said the partnership would ensure the vaccine could be quickly rolled out, if it works. “Once we get an...
100 years through the eyes of the NHS’s fundraising hero
But that budding career was cut short when, in September 1939, prime minister Neville Chamberlain declared war on Germany. Moore...
Watch: Captain Tom Moore’s 100th birthday
The WWII veteran set out to walk around his garden 100 times to raise £1,000 for the National Health Service and...
Doctors who refuse to work without PPE must not face tribunals if patients come to harm, defence body says
Doctors should not face investigation if they refuse to see patients due to lack of PPE, their defence body has...
No case of a child passing coronavirus to an adult exists, evidence review shows
The review, by the Don't Forget the Bubbles paediatric research project, added: "Notably, the China/WHO joint commission could not recall...
Boris Johnson has a ‘renewed’ debt of gratitude for the NHS after the birth of his son
In the space of just over a fortnight Boris Johnson has come to owe the NHS an enormous debt of...
Inquests into NHS staff who contracted Covid-19 should not examine issue of PPE, Chief Coroner warns
Inquests into the deaths of NHS workers from coronavirus should not examine systemic failures in the provision of personal protective...
Why the Government has chosen to lay bare the scale of the coronavirus crisis
No wonder the first question to Mr Hancock from health select committee chairman Jeremy Hunt at a session on April...
UK coronavirus death toll passes 26,000 as new figures include care home cases
The ONS statistics reflect cases in which Covid-19 was suspected, as well as those which are confirmed. However, they come...
BBC defends Panorama show that used Labour activists to criticise lack of PPE
The BBC has defended a Panorama programme which used Labour activists to criticise the Government’s “scandalous” PPE provision to the...
Coronavirus aftercare must be ‘scaled up’ to prevent future hospitalisations, charity warns
Aftercare for Covid-19 patients must be “scaled up” to prevent more hospitalisations later in the year, a charity has warned. ...
‘I was in the worst pain imaginable after cancer surgery and I had to face it alone due to Covid-19’
I’m a pretty fit and healthy guy usually: I play for a local football team and love getting out on...
Over-50s should be kept under coronavirus lockdown measures for longer, say researchers
"Presumably, police officers would have to be given the right to fine those caught breaking the age rule," the researchers...
BAME NHS workers should be given roles reducing risk from coronavirus, new guidance says
The latest figures from NHS England showed that BAME people accounted for 16 per cent of all hospital deaths in...
Coronavirus antibody tests could be available as soon as next month, co-ordinator says
Scientists are racing to manufacture an antibody test that can tell people whether they have had the virus and built...
‘There is a high number of ethnically diverse patients going into critical care’
We’re now working three days and two nights each week to avoid any more 24-hour shifts, and this rearrangement of...
How far is the UK from passing the five tests for lifting the coronavirus lockdown?
In order to keep track of the rate of infection, the Government tests people – although the number of people being tested...
Covid-19 crisis may lead to 20,000 more cancer deaths
It came as a poll of 1,000 adults found that one in 10 people would not contact their GP even...
Breast cancer drug set to be approved as groundbreaking treatment for prostate cancer
A breast cancer drug is on the verge of being approved as a groundbreaking treatment for prostate cancer, following the...
Contact-tracing and testing to begin on Isle of Wight under NHS proposal
The Government’s coronavirus test-and-trace strategy could be trialled first on the Isle of Wight, The Telegraph can reveal as NHS...
