Two young intensive care workers have shared a celebratory selfie as a Covid ward in Manchester was empty for the first time in months. NHS nurse Hattie Nicholls posted the photo on social media to mark Manchester Royal Infirmary’s ICU being Covid-free. Posing for a selfie with a colleague in front of a row of … Read more
Kate Garraway’s husband Derek Draper is finally home after spending more than a year in intensive care following a battle with coronavirus. The TV presenter, 53, has had their family home adapted so that Derek, also 53, could come back and receive round-the-clock care at their North London property. Former lobbyist Derek has now been … Read more
Kate Garraway’s husband Derek Draper is finally home after spending more than a year in intensive care following a battle with coronavirus. The TV presenter, 53, has had the family home adapted so that Derek, also 53, could come back and receive round-the-clock care at their London property. Former lobbyist Derek has now been taken … Read more
Mothers-to-be who get coronavirus are more than twice as likely to end up in intensive care as infected women who aren’t pregnant, a study has found. University of Birmingham scientists also found pregnant women with Covid were nearly three times more likely to experience a stillbirth, but they were slightly less likely to die with the … Read more
Fewer than 10 Covid-19 patients aged over 80 are being sent to intensive care units each day thanks to the rollout of Britain’s vaccine programme, Health Secretary Matt Hancock claimed last night. At a Downing Street press conference, Mr Hancock hailed ‘exciting’ data showing that just one shot of either the Oxford/AstraZeneca or Pfizer jab … Read more
MARCH 2020 Kate revealed she and Prince Charles had got ‘relatively close’ at the Prince’s Trust Awards on March 11 – Charles was diagnosed with coronavirus in mid-March. She said: ‘Around the 29/30 March, I came home came in and said [to Derek] ‘god you look ill.’ ‘He said he had a headache, numbness in his right hand, … Read more
Pressure on NHS intensive care has started to ease for the first time since the second wave of coronavirus took off and Test and Trace data shows cases of the disease are down 41 per cent in a fortnight. All key metrics now indicate the darkest days of the winter crisis are behind us, with the … Read more
Pressure on NHS intensive care has started to ease for the first time since the second wave of coronavirus took off and Test and Trace data shows cases of the disease are down 41 per cent in a fortnight. All key metrics now indicate the darkest days of the winter crisis are behind us, with the … Read more
One in eight NHS trusts in England did not have a single spare intensive care bed last week, official figures show as hospitals continued to grapple with the winter wave of critically ill coronavirus patients. NHS England figures published today reveal 18 out of 140 major trusts had 100 per cent occupancy in their ICUs … Read more
Police have launched a hunt for a maskless Covid denier who tried to take a dying patient from intensive care against doctors’ orders. Toby Hayden-Leigh, 45, from Maidstone, Kent, was joined by a group of people who refused to wear masks inside East Surrey Hospital and then became abusive towards staff on January 21. A … Read more