Hospitals ‘inappropriately’ turned down urgent cancer referrals during lockdown, GPs say
Cancer Research UK called for urgent checks to ensure that patients had not been left to slip through the net. ...
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Rishi Sunak drops plans to force employees to pay for coronavirus tests
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has dropped controversial plans to force workers to pay for coronavirus tests organised by their employers through...
Dozens of care homes investigated over Covid safety fears
In the Commons, the shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, called on Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary, to apologise for the...
the exercise that everyone should be doing
By now, we know that spending too much time sitting down could take years off our life. Several studies have shown...
Some deaths caused by coronavirus would have happened later this year, says ONS
Tuesday's ONS figures show that 8,979 deaths from all causes in England and Wales were registered in the week ending...
Aftershock of Covid-19 forces millions of children into begging, child labour and early marriages
Lockdowns and travel disruptions have curtailed people’s ability to earn money, while small and medium businesses have lost income and...
‘Secretive’ data company Palantir files to go public
Palantir has confidentially filed to go public, paving the way for investors to take a stake in the historically shadowy...
