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...
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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...
F1 boss driven to feed NHS staff after doctor daughter told him they were living on cornflakes
An emotional family Zoom chat in which his doctor daughter revealed that exhausted NHS staff were “living off cornflakes” moved...
Shielding chaos as official letters contradict doctors’ advice
Vulnerable patients across England have been told by their doctors they must continue shielding, despite letters from the Government telling...
Thousands of shielding workers to be forced out of jobs if furlough scheme is not extended
All employers with more than five staff are required to produce written risk assessments, showing how they are protecting staff...
NHS cleaners and porters were coronavirus ‘super-spreaders’ in hospitals, data reveals
According to one Whitehall source, however, frustration is growing among ministers over delays in collecting crucial data from individual NHS...
Government report admits Covid cases were linked to patients moving from care homes to hospitals
The new results differ from the latest Public Health England (PHE) statistics, which state that just 43 per cent of...
Wear a face mask if you’re in a queue, says Boris Johnson
Mr Johnson then produced a mask that he said was "a bit Hannibal the Cannibal" – the character played by...
No coronavirus threat from cricket balls, new research concludes
A senior scientific adviser for the Government also said there was no scientific reason why cricket was a coronavirus risk....
Doctors report more babies with suspected abuse-related head trauma during lockdown
Less than 10 per cent of people infected with the novel coronavirus in Brazil were asymptomatic and the majority of those who tested...
Specialists warn of huge rise in child abuse during coronavirus lockdown
Dr Alison Steele, the officer for child protection at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said: "This is...
Air travel is safest form of public transport during coronavirus crisis, says DfT adviser
"I think that planes are probably the safest form of public transport compared with the anarchy on the Tube with...
Antibody tests too unreliable to be used to judge coronavirus immunity levels, review finds
"These observations indicate important weaknesses in the evidence on Covid-19 serological tests, particularly those being marketed as point-of-care tests," the...
No need for more local lockdowns, say leaders of areas on coronavirus ‘watch list’
Rochdale Borough Council's chief executive, Steve Rumbelow, said: "We're not at all as bad as Leicester. "The one thing we...
‘Significant number’ of people may have some natural immunity to coronavirus
"So there is probably background T-cell immunity in people before they see the coronavirus, and that may be relevant that...
Fall in coronavirus cases during lockdown has delayed vaccine, Oxford professor says
"The country went into lockdown and now transmission has reduced a lot. We are vaccinating in multiple countries where there...
Why are girls getting fitter than boys in lockdown?
Last April, this paper launched the Girls, Inspired campaign in a bid to close the gender fitness gap after it...
The areas that could face local coronavirus lockdowns within days
Leicester-style lockdowns in more UK cities and towns could be only days away. Government sources have told The Telegraph that...
Government must give local councils details of coronavirus spikes more quickly, says BMA
Meanwhile, leading health academic Professor Sir Chris Ham urged the Government to give local councils control over NHS Test and...
