England rugby star Courtney Lawes calls on Government to incentivise marriage
England rugby star Courtney Lawes has called on the Government to incentivise marriage, as a new report reveals cohabiting couples...
Year: 2020
Hancock axes ‘failing’ Public Health England
Mr Hancock is seeking someone with experience of both health policy and the private sector to run it. Baroness Harding,...
Thousands of Covid-19 survivors ‘can’t access NHS rehabilitation services as no proof they were infected’
Thousands of coronavirus survivors claim they are unable to access NHS rehabilitation services because they have no proof they contracted...
doubts linger as new Covid tracing app seeks to learn lessons
Officials estimate that it is 70pc accurate for “positive” matches – that two people definitely came within two metres of...
Vaccinate your children to avoid creating burden on NHS, parents told
Parents are being urged to vaccinate their children to avoid a wave of preventable illnesses burdening the NHS. The advice...
NHS braces for increased demand for mental health support in wake of coronavirus pandemic
More health staff are being trained to treat people with post-traumatic stress disorder in preparation for a potential spike in...
Travel industry faces ‘three winters’, MP warns as companies demand urgent help from Rishi Sunak
The same conditions will also apply to travellers returning to the UK from the Netherlands, Monaco, Malta, Turks and Caicos...
Boris Johnson accelerates easing of lockdown from this weekend
Mr Johnson had postponed the changes, which were meant to come in on August 1, amid concerns over a second...
Local lockdowns could stigmatise towns and bring economic decline, advisers warn
Edward Argar, the minister for health, said the measures would be reviewed again next week. "It is essential we all...
why the local spikes are unlikely to lead to more coronavirus deaths
The recent spikes of coronavirus cases in local areas around the UK are unlikely to lead to more deaths, latest...
Netherlands advises against travel to Britain in response to new quarantine rules
France now joins Spain and Belgium on the quarantine list, deterring trips there and causing new headaches for airlines and...
Close contact with a Covid-19 sufferer brings 20 per cent chance of catching virus, study finds
Coming into close contact with a Covid-19 sufferer yields a 20 per cent chance of catching the disease, a new...
My mother-in-law has dementia and plans to move in… but I don’t want to be a carer. What should I do?
Dear A&E, I love my mother-in-law dearly. She helped raise the children, supported me through losing my mum and puts...
a salute to the walking embodiment of British values
Why did we take Captain Sir Tom Moore to our hearts? Of course his charity effort was inspiring, but it...
France placed on UK travel quarantine list as coronavirus cases rise again
France has been struck from the Government’s quarantine free travel list, amid rising concern over new cases in the country....
France edges closer to being put on travel quarantine list as coronavirus cases rise again
It is understood a decision had not yet been made on whether to strike France from the safe list on...
Oldham on brink of full lockdown as coronavirus cases surge
"The first thing that we've said to the Health Secretary is that we don't believe that it would be right...
‘Early breast cancer screening saved my life’
I always knew I needed to keep an eye on my breasts. I lost my mother to breast cancer when...
Air pollution increases likelihood of death from coronavirus, ONS study finds
People living in polluted areas are more likely to die from coronavirus, a new study shows, establishing "some evidence" of...
France ‘on brink’ of being placed on travel quarantine list
Other countries, such as Germany, have implemented a regional approach. It asks citizens to quarantine only after travel to particularly...
New NHS contact tracing app has ‘false positive’ rate of almost 50 per cent
The NHS contact tracing app being developed is right only half the time so far with a "false positive" rate...
Record number of patients waiting 18 weeks for NHS treatment, new figures show
NHS England figures also show that a total of 153,134 urgent cancer referrals were made by GPs in England in...
how to find young love in a hopeless place
Dir: Shannon Murphy. Cast: Eliza Scanlen, Ben Mendelsohn, Essie Davis, Toby Wallace, Emily Barclay, Andrea Demetriades. 15 cert, 118 min...
Low infection rate shows limited role of children during coronavirus pandemic
When considered in light of positive cases among all age groups, children accounted for 1.1 per cent of all cases of Covid-19....
Earlier breast cancer screening could slash death rates by 25 per cent, study reveals
The new results are based on a study of more than 160,000 women who were enrolled in the UK Breast...
Back-to-basics Covid-19 app ready for launch after ‘test and trace’ scheme is scaled back
Mass testing and tracing was abandoned in March, and not restarted until the end of May, with the rollout of NHS...
The statistical quirk that means the coronavirus pandemic may never officially end
The anomaly also means that even if there was no virus in the community at all, we would never fall...
