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,...
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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. ...
Government urged to ‘pause’ new restrictions as cases of Covid caught in hospital soar
Professor Carl Heneghan, who led the new analysis at the University of Oxford, said many of the new hospital cases...
A cross-party consensus on social care will ensure GPs continue to deliver the best possible
GPs are the bedrock of our NHS. I pay tribute to all the incredible work they have been doing during...
Patients struggling to get GP appointments, despite a million fewer people being seen each month
This week, Mr Hancock, Chris Whitty, the Chief Medical Officer, and Amanda Pritchard, chief operating officer at NHS England, all...
‘Traumatised’ paramedics needed counselling at height of Covid pandemic
Paramedics have been left "traumatised" during the coronavirus pandemic after patients died unnecessarily because they had delayed seeking treatment. Patients...
We stayed home to protect the NHS last time
“Stay Home. Protect the NHS. Save Lives." The slogan was emblazoned on the Prime Minister’s lectern for the first time,...
Doctors unable to order blood tests as crisis over shortage of components grows
GPs are increasingly unable to order blood tests, including those for cancer and serious heart conditions, as the shortage of...
Italy testing chaos as new rules require travellers to prove they are virus free
Travellers to Italy are facing chaos after being told they can't use NHS tests to meet a new requirement to...
Britons more anxious about Covid than at any time since April
Anxiety levels among Britons have reached their highest level since April as fears about a second Covid wave grow, Government...
Thousands of coronavirus deaths recorded by ONS not due to Covid, new figures show
Thousands of coronavirus deaths recorded by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) were not due to Covid, new figures show....
Are pubs and restaurants really driving the rise in Covid cases? None of the data says so
When The Telegraph asked to see the new figures and quizzed the Department of Health on what the chart actually...
Britons travelling to Italy will need to provide proof of negative Covid test
Britons travelling to Italy will have to prove that they are clear of Covid-19 before being allowed into the country....
NHS Test and Trace registers worst week for contact tracing
This is an increase of 56 per cent in positive cases on the previous week and is the highest weekly...
More than 110,000 patients forced to wait over a year for routine NHS treatments
More than 111,000 people have now been waiting for routine NHS treatment for over a year, new figures show, revealing...
Why is there ‘a postcode lottery’ for testing children’s eyes?
The pause of routine optometrist appointments has intensified the problem. Hardiman-McCartney adds: “Lockdown happened at the time of the year...
Majority of people who test positive for coronavirus are asymptomatic when tested, study finds
She said university students are one group who should be tested regularly, and definitely before they go home for Christmas....
