NHS doctors told not to use Zoom for video calls with patients due to security concerns
Doctors and nurses are being told not to use Zoom for virtual appointments with patients during the coronavirus pandemic over...
Month: April 2020
How the decision to take control of PPE is coming back to bite the government
“They don’t appear to know exactly what they want when it comes to the regulatory requirements, and exact specifications,” said...
The inside story of the Oxford v Imperial race to develop world’s first coronavirus vaccine
At Oxford, Prof Gilbert's team is effectively trying to adapt a different virus, taken from chimpanzees, to do the job....
Are doctors surgeries and dentists open? How coronavirus impacts your day-to-day health appointments
Are private tests worth it? Public Health England (PHE) says that you will only receive a free test for Covid-19...
What is PPE and how can it help NHS workers? Your questions answered
The news that millions of pieces of personal protective equipment (PPE) are being shipped from Britain to Europe despite NHS...
Problems with PHE’s Covid-19 tests raise serious questions over UK’s coronavirus response
Now a new problem has emerged: the original PHE tests, according to a memo sent by its senior lab team, were...
Foreign visitors aged over 50 should be barred from UK because of risk they could add to stress on NHS, says think tank
Foreign visitors to the UK aged over 50 from outside the EU should be barred from Britain during the pandemic...
Professor Stephen Hawking’s family donate his ventilator to NHS hospital
She said she hoped people might be "a bit more compassionate and a bit kinder" following the virus crisis. Prof...
Public Health England admits coronavirus tests used to send NHS staff back to work are flawed
Experts likened PHE's approach to sending out a recipe and ingredients – leaving a margin for error, depending on the...
UK ‘throwing everything’ at search for coronavirus vaccine, with human trials set to begin
Sir Patrick Vallance, the Government's chief scientific adviser, has previously warned that most vaccines in development are "long shots". On...
Nightingale hospital ‘turned away more coronavirus patients than it treated’
The Nightingale hospital is "turning away more coronavirus patients than it is treating", a leaked document has suggested. Dozens of...
How close are we to a coronavirus vaccine
As Covid-19 has rapidly spread around the world there has been a mad scramble to find a vaccine. ...
Six doctors and nurses named as latest NHS staff to die with coronavirus
Khulisani Nkala, 46, a mental health nurse at the Leeds and York NHS Partnership Foundation Trust, had a smile that...
Muslim council of Britain issues guidance on how to celebrate Ramadan during coronavirus lockdown
Instead, the MCB is offering advice on how to arrange "virtual iftars" online with family and friends as well as...
how dangerous it it, and can they be carriers of the disease?
You might have noticed that children get ill more than adults: the NHS says it is normal for them to...
I feared opiate addiction after my anterior cruciate ligament injury
She hasn’t worked out, either, why she felt ill. Five days earlier, she had played in Chicago, after returning from...
The Restaurant That Burns Off Calories, review
Imagine visiting a restaurant and being told that, in return for enjoying that delicious three-course meal, you would have to...
Matt Hancock’s pledge to test 100,000 people a day for coronavirus was ‘arbitrary’, insiders say
Germany was one of a number of European countries that began to ease lockdown measures on Monday, opening general shops...
Hundreds of thousands needing to be shielded from coronavirus have still not been contacted, investigation shows
As a result, hundreds of thousands of people who should have been given the advice, and provided with help such...
BAME patients face a disproportionately high risk of death from coronavirus, new data shows
Black, Asian, and minority ethnic patients face a disproportionately high risk of death from coronavirus, new data shows, as officials...
Care homes on brink of bankruptcy because of spiralling PPE costs
The spiralling cost of buying personal protection equipment could bankrupt large numbers of care homes across the country, an industry...
No certainty that UK will have coronavirus vaccine in 18 months, chief scientific adviser warns
At the weekend, experts from the World Health Organisaion said there was no evidence so far to show that antibody...
‘It’s getting tiring not knowing when this is going to end’
We haven’t had any deaths within our staff but everyone knows each other here and it would be a huge...
Who will look after my child if I get sick? The challenges facing single parents in lockdown
I have distributed (and pinned to the fridge) an emergency protocol, with contact names and telephone numbers of family as...
Almost three-quarters of people with possible cancer symptoms ‘failing to go to GP during pandemic’
Dr Smith has previously warned that the NHS is "eerily quiet" for illnesses other than the virus and expressed concerns...
Dr Michael Mosley on how improving your gut health in lockdown will boost immunity
According to Dr Michael Mosley, creator of the 5:2 Diet, the recent outbreak of the coronavirus has shown us just how vulnerable...
Prostate cancer death rate expected to have fallen by 10 per cent since 2015 thanks to earlier diagnosis
"This may have a relevant impact on prostate cancer mortality even in the absence of cure, since a proportion of...
