Hospitals may be forced to move Covid patients elsewhere

If hospitals begin to transfer patients it will be the first time since the principle of…

Traumatised intensive care nurses ‘sectioned’ in wake of first wave

In April, three front line staff were pictured wearing clinical waste bags on their heads and…

The anti-lockdown arguments have failed. Where next for its opponents?

There are two possible answers. The less convincing is the one used to justify the first…

Test and Trace app’s ‘delete my data’ button undermines its effectiveness, claim top scientists

Professor Paul Hunter, an expert in health protection at the University of East Anglia who has previously…

‘Fourth tier’ of Covid restrictions beckons as scientists pressure Boris Johnson

Hospitalisations have already breached “reasonable worst case” levels, the papers show, and minutes from Sage warned…

Passing of Nobby Stiles reinforces calls for neurological disease in football to be investigated as an industrial illness

The precise cause of dementia cannot be ascertained while former players are still living, but the…

Justin Welby tells Boris Johnson not to ‘politicise’ child poverty

The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin Welby, along with the Archbishop of York and…

What are the potential exit strategies from Covid lockdown?

Devi Sridhar, professor of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh, said it was vital…

First drug to halt the effects of Alzheimer’s could be available within a year

Further studies are now underway, which offer such doses to all eligible participants from the earlier…

Covid cases are not spiralling out of control, says King’s College

New figures released by the ONS also put the number of daily infections far lower than…