Coronavirus crisis reverses years of NHS waiting list progress as delays soar
Health policy think tanks are warning that, with hospitals set to remain hampered by the need to observe strict infection...
Month: July 2020
When swimming pools open, will they be safe?
Whilst the Government has allowed restaurants, pubs and shops to reopen their doors, leisure centres and swimming pools have remained...
This simple diet fix could help halve the risk of developing type-2 diabetes, study finds
The equivalent of eating two bananas, four broccoli spears, a portion of strawberries and a large handful of cherry tomatoes...
Sage sidelined as Government takes direct control of coronavirus response
They were told by officials that they had been "doing a lot of work", and they were reducing their sitting...
Stop pretending that you need to be rich to enjoy a healthy diet
But this report seems to have fallen prey to the same cultural cringe that has beleaguered all such efforts in...
Could they give us more answers about how coronavirus spreads?
"The message is that protecting yourself involves physical distancing. It involves hand-washing and it involves, when you can't physically distance,...
NHS must not use coronavirus crisis as excuse to avoid tackling failings, MPs say
Sir Simon Stevens, head of the NHS since 2014, has been criticised for the decision to discharge thousands of hospital...
Fears of brain damage ‘epidemic’ as rise in inflammation is linked to coronavirus
The new study identified 43 suspected or confirmed coronavirus sufferers, aged between 16 and 85, who were treated at the...
Healthcare system ‘not safe enough’ for women taking medication during pregnancy concludes review
The NHS and wider healthcare system is "not safe enough" for women taking medication during pregnancy, a damning review has concluded....
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. ...
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...
Doctors set to be paid to send obese patients to slimming classes
With 29 per cent of adults in England now classed as obese – meaning a body mass index over 30 –...
Government to stop publishing daily tally of people being tested for coronavirus
In the 24 hours to 9am on Sunday, a total of 164,849 tests were provided and the testing capacity for...
90 per cent of health workers caught Covid in hospitals
Up to nine in ten nurses and doctors who caught Covid during the peak of the pandemic picked it up...
Coronavirus will lead to up to 35k extra cancer deaths, double previous estimates
Professor Pat Price, a clinical oncologist, said too much treatment was delayed, on the basis of NHS guidelines, in a...
Dozens of child sex abuse victims had their compensation cut because of criminal records
Dozens of child sex abuse victims have had their compensation cut because they have criminal records, with campaigners calling it...
Virtual GP appointments surge during Covid-19 outbreak amid fears they may continue after lockdown
The number of virtual GP appointments has more than tripled since the coronavirus outbreak amid fears the practice could be...
Covid-19 may not have originated in China, but from ‘elsewhere before it emerged in Asia’, expert believes
Dr Jefferson believes that many viruses lie dormant throughout the globe and emerge when conditions are favourable. It also means...
Merthyr Tydfil Covid cases shoot from 10 to 179 per 100,000, overtaking Leicester
Health Minister Vaughan Gething said: "Merthyr is a very small local authority, so that one incident with that number of...
Social care needs urgent and permanent reform, says head of NHS
He said he hoped that by the time the UK was celebrating the NHS's 73rd birthday, a year from now,...
Let’s not pretend that the NHS, however much voters love it, is the envy of the world
Today the NHS is 72, which is another way of saying that on July 5 1948 the Government nationalised the...
Nationwide applause to pay tribute to 72 years of NHS
NHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said he hoped the public would use the anniversary as an opportunity to "say a...
