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...
Day: April 29, 2020
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...
