NHS staff and families accounted for one in six Covid hospital cases, study reveals
The team at Glasgow University examined data from 158,445 healthcare workers in Scotland aged between 18 and 65 and 229,905...
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Hospices may close this winter without regular coronavirus tests for staff
She added: "We do not want people who need our help to decide not to come to one of our...
NHS staff ‘ashamed’ they can’t serve good food to patients
The authors said it was wrong that mothers who gave birth in the middle of the night, or people who...
Care staff ordered to work in one home only
Amnesty International raised fears on Wednesday that these errors are being repeated, with leaked documents from councils to care homes...
Prince William hails the hope and belief of cancer patients and medical staff during this ‘darkest of times’
The Duke of Cambridge has acknowledged the “unimaginable challenges” faced by both cancer patients and specialists this year as he...
Report shows staff at children’s gender clinic felt pressured to administer puberty-blocking drugs
A clinic treating transgender children failed to implement recommendations from 15 years ago after staff raised concerns regarding puberty blockers,...
NHS staff took more than 500,000 sick days due to mental health issues in May
NHS staff took more than half a million sick days because of mental health issues in May, during the peak...
NHS to provide 100,000 in-house tests a day to combat staff shortages
Under the ramped-up "Pillar One" system, 96 NHS labs working as part of 26 regional networks will offer the 100,000...
Operations delayed until 2021 while hospital staff are left standing idle
SIR – It has always been clear that the Withdrawal Agreement, with its special treatment of Northern Ireland and its...
School carries no greater risk for staff and students than home, major survey concludes
Turning up to primary or pre-school presents no greater risk to children or staff than staying at home, a Public...
Call for all maternity staff to get regular coronavirus tests
Maternity staff should get regular coronavirus tests, scientists have said, as a study reveals one in six have contracted the...
Two in three NHS staff may have been infected at height of coronavirus outbreak, study finds
Two thirds of NHS staff may have been unknowingly infected with coronavirus around the peak of the epidemic, new research...
Mental health toll on NHS workers in lockdown revealed as first figures show staff absence rose by 165,000 days
"They have had leave cancelled, and their training has been put on hold. Many have worked more intense rotas. If...
Hospitals feared testing staff for coronavirus to avoid sending them home, MPs told
Hospitals failed to test staff for coronavirus because they feared having to send too many workers home, when almost half were...
Hillingdon hospital coronavirus outbreak began at staff event attended by infected nurse
A coronavirus outbreak among Hillingdon hospital staff began after an infected nurse unwittingly attended a presentation and passed the virus...
Don’t make shop staff police the wearing of face masks, says Waterstones chief
Shop workers' union Usdaw has urged the Government to clarify its policy on face coverings in shops. "It should never...
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...
Self-driving hospital beds in development to protect staff from Covid-19
Hospital wards across the country could soon be decked out with self-driving beds that will help protect staff from the...
As few as one in 25 Scottish care home staff tested last week despite SNP pledge
The row broke out as it emerged that the number of people who have died with confirmed or suspected Covid-19...
SNP Health Minister admits she does not know when Scottish NHS staff will be regularly tested
In another astonishing admission, she said she said care home testing was "not happening consistently, in a planned way, across...
Donald Trump drug to be tested on NHS staff with hopes of preventing coronavirus
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last month warned against taking hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus outside a clinical trial or...
Care sector says Matt Hancock’s testing expansion comes at expense of staff and residents
The body said there were now six separate testing routes available for staff and at least five for residents, with...
Coronavirus tests for all care home staff and residents three weeks away, Government admits
The Government has admitted it will take almost a month for all care home staff and residents to be tested...
Dozens of NHS staff allowed to keep working after testing positive for coronavirus in scientific trial
Professor James Moon, the chief investigator on the trial, said he had taken part in the study and also did...
Care home staff may be banned from working in multiple locations amid fears of coronavirus ‘leaks’
As a result, there are concerns that low-paid staff in multiple jobs and agency workers may unwittingly be spreading the...
Inquests into NHS staff who contracted Covid-19 should not examine issue of PPE, Chief Coroner warns
Inquests into the deaths of NHS workers from coronavirus should not examine systemic failures in the provision of personal protective...
Watford lighten the load for NHS staff at Vicarage Road
The markings on the pitch may have faded, and the footballers may not have been spotted for weeks, but there...
