‘Why I sprung my dad from his care home’
“This is the most fun I’ve had in a long time.” These were my dear dad’s words on his first...
Month: October 2020
Symptoms of long Covid are so varied patients are not being believed by doctors, researchers claim
Patients should be allowed to self-diagnose 'long Covid', Government researchers have said, amid concerns sufferers are not being believed. The call...
Immune system loses ability to protect against infection far earlier than thought, study suggests
The immune system is at its peak in school-age children and begins to decline far earlier than previously thought, according...
Care homes told to prepare ‘isolation facilities’ for Covid-positive patients in second wave
Care homes have been told they will be expected to make room for coronavirus patients who have been discharged from...
What would a ‘circuit-breaker’ lockdown look like?
Retail While shops were shuttered in the nationwide lockdown earlier this year, it is unlikely that all retail will be...
Operations cancelled as the NHS struggles to cope with coronavirus admissions
Operations are being cancelled across the NHS, as health services struggle to cope with rising numbers of Covid patients. On Wednesday,...
December ‘circuit-breaker’ could save thousands of lives in short term, advisers say
Of the need for one soon, he said: "We're a bit late now for half-term in the sense I don't...
Dementia patient restrained by security guards 18 times to be forcibly treated
A dementia patient was restrained by security guards 18 times so he could be forcibly treated, as experts warn the...
What is a ‘circuit breaker’, and how could it help curb rising Covid-19 cases?
His intervention provoked a bitter backlash from the Government, with a "senior source" branding him a "shameless opportunist". However, the public...
Shares rally at NHS IT provider Kainos as it hikes forecasts
Shares in NHS IT provider Kainos have surged by more than a quarter after it hiked revenue and profit forecasts....
Covid-19 could make sufferers permanently deaf, scientists warn
Coronavirus can make patients permanently deaf, scientists have warned after the first reported case in the UK. Details have emerged...
I thought I had Alzheimer’s but it was the menopause
Emma Freud, the broadcaster and writer, feared she had dementia after the menopause left her unable to remember the word...
Confusion as NHS app users receive ‘ghost’ notifications incorrectly warning of coronavirus exposure
The DHSC said it was updating the app on Tuesday so that users who received the alert would receive a second...
MPs demand answers from Dido Harding over secretive body driving local lockdowns
In a letter addressed to Baroness Harding, the chair of the science and technology committee, Greg Clark, demanded details of...
Three Nightingale hospitals in North put on standby as Covid infections continue to spread
Professor Stephen Powis, the NHS medical director, said: "We have asked the Nightingale hospitals in Manchester, Sunderland and Harrogate to...
Three million patients have missed cancer screenings since the start of the pandemic
Patients took the Government’s message to stay at home and protect the NHS “literally”, Cancer Research UK (CRUK) has said,...
Do Not Resuscitate orders to be reviewed after being used on patients during first wave of virus without consent
He said: "The Department is very clear that the blanket use of DNACPR and DNR is unacceptable. An agreement to...
How to winter-proof yourself against Covid
Indoor settings with poor airflow are considered one of the highest risk environments. Last week, the US Centers for Disease...
Transparency row over body driving UK’s Covid lockdowns
Earlier this year, the Government was forced to publish the full membership of the Sage scientific committee and regular details...
How Covid cases have fallen far short of the Government’s ‘doomsday graph’
The Government said that, as of 9am on Sunday, there had been a further 12,872 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in...
NHS will need more than 1,000 new consultants, physios and counsellors to treat long Covid patients
Long Covid services are “patchy and overstretched” and the NHS will need to hire more than 1,000 new consultants, physios...
Millions will be ordered not to leave their local areas in new Covid clampdown
Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, who has been in regular contact with Mr Hancock, is understood to believe that...
Doctors’ fury at closure of children’s A&E services to prepare for second Covid wave
Health authorities said the closures were intended to help "prepare for the busy winter period and a potential second surge...
South Korea-style ‘backward tracing’ system to help pinpoint Covid ‘super spreader’ events
A Whitehall source confirmed that preparations to incorporate "backward", or retrospective, contact tracing into the current system were under way....
Eton parents accuse school of ‘spreading virus round country’ as pupils sent home to isolate
Eton parents are understood to be "furious" that pupils have been sent home to isolate, accusing the school of "spreading...
Parents with young children could be protected against severe Covid-19
Parents with young children may be protected against severe Covid-19 symptoms because their immune systems are boosted by regularly catching...
Social media users should have to opt into algorithms that could promote harmful content, says former culture secretary and peer
Her inquest next year will examine whether the schoolgirl was ‘overwhelmed’ by the images and posts the algorithm showed her. ...
