How Britain can avoid a second peak of Covid-19
The Prime Minister’s first reported command from convalescence was for Team Downing Street to avoid a “second peak” of Covid-19....
Month: April 2020
Flight carrying vital PPE supplies for NHS delayed in Turkey
The delay highlights the increasingly acute global shortage of fluid-repellent gowns, which in the UK are required for staff conducting...
Cancer death rates in Britain ‘may rise for four years due to current health crisis’
There is certain to be a surge on the average of 165,000 deaths a year in the UK as a...
For many years to come, the only issue in politics will be how to return to jobs and growth
It now looks, though, as if the economy will continue to be asphyxiated for weeks. By the time the chokehold...
‘It’s deplorable, they are doing a very difficult job without the right equipment’
Rather than changing nursing, she believes that the pandemic has simply “shone a great light” on what it is that...
NHS chief warned smaller care providers could fail last month and Government failed to act
An NHS chief warned "lots" of private care homes could fail before the sector burned through two thirds of the...
Captain Tom Moore to open new Nightingale hospital after Prince Harry praises fundraising heroics
He said: “I am still amazed by the amount of kindness and generosity from the UK public who continue to...
Number of coronavirus deaths in care homes could be as high as 7,500, according to new estimate
Care England, which represents around 3,800 homes and more than 50,000 residents, gathered data by "taking a sounding" from its...
Britain facing worst coronavirus death rates in Europe, former World Health Organisation director warns
Another 847 deaths in the UK were announced on Friday, bringing the toll to 14,576. While the number of new...
NHS rationing oxygen with doctors instructed to downgrade blood saturation targets
Oxygen is being rationed to prevent hospitals running out due to the high demand from coronavirus patients, The Daily Telegraph...
Ministers to consider whether public should wear face masks to help UK out of coronavirus lockdown
Ian Jones, professor of virology at Reading University, said: "It's obvious that even a flimsy mask provides a level of...
NHS medics told to reuse PPE and wear aprons if gowns not available as stocks fall
During an appearance at the Commons health committee, the Health Secretary admitted the UK is "tight on gowns" but said...
‘I worry when lockdown is over Dad won’t know who I am any more’
I am in coronavirus limbo. I live in Dorset with my wife, while my elderly father is in a care...
Ministers warn cancer treatment ‘juddering to a halt’ amid coronavirus crisis
He said that while ongoing cancer treatment was continuing as much as possible, the number of new cases under investigation...
Police criticised for allowing people to flout lockdown rules to clap for carers on Westminster Bridge
Scotland Yard said in a statement: "Officers, along with other emergency service workers, came together last night on Westminster Bridge...
I need a glass of wine every night to take the edge off. Is that so wrong?
Out of the hundreds of funny coronavirus memes pinging their way round Whatsapp right now there’s one of a woman...
Childhood in the time of corona
This is not the first time in history children have been thrown into an entirely new way of life, where...
Community spirit makes comeback in Britain amid anxieties over coronavirus lockdown, survey shows
An overwhelming majority, 85 per cent, said they were worried about the impact coronavirus is having on their life. A...
Who is considered high risk for coronavirus?
Prof James Naismith, Director of the Rosalind Franklin Institute and University of Oxford, said: “This morning’s data from the ONS...
How long will we have to wait for a coronavirus vaccine?
Disease modelling experts have warned that the shut down imposed on the UK may have to last until a vaccine...
Why are so many black and ethnic minority people dying from coronavirus?
Mr Chowdhury, who worked as a consultant urologist at Homerton Hospital in east London, said in his post: “People appreciate...
Public Health England can’t meet the challenge it faces from coronavirus
Public Health England is horrendously bureaucratic, hopelessly centralised and horrifyingly incompetent - and now the nation's future is in its...
NHS volunteer army of 750,000 has only been given 20,000 tasks, data reveals
"On duty for over 370 hours, but no requests in Cheltenham yet," volunteer Rob Freegard wrote on Thursday. "Hopefully this...
The Government’s five red lines for easing UK coronavirus lockdown measures
Step three: Lower infection rates across the board The third test for the Government would be having data from the...
Care homes running out of PPE as leaked letter calls Government handling of situation ‘shambolic’
According to the most recent ONS figures, only 217 deaths have been recorded despite separate data suggesting nursing home deaths...
UK coronavirus cases may have dropped 70 per cent in two weeks, analysis finds
It comes as the latest UK figures show that there have been 13,729 deaths – a rise of 861 in...
‘Proning’ technique backed by Intensive Care Society to save lives in coronavirus crisis
Nick Scriven, of the Society for Acute Medicine, said his hospital was proning conscious patients "with good results". He said...
