Ten thousand healthcare workers have signed up to take part in a Government study which aims to solve the mystery of whether people can get reinfected with Covid-19. Public Health England researchers will follow volunteers for at least a year, regularly swabbing them for the virus and taking blood samples to search for antibodies. Participants are … Read more
The number of people getting diagnosed with coronavirus in the UK shrunk again today as health chiefs recorded just 812 more cases of the life-threatening disease and 16 new deaths. Department of Health statistics show 1,043 Britons are now testing positive for Covid-19 each day, with the rolling seven-day average having dropped every day since … Read more
Major health bodies demand urgent fix for social care crisis as it emerges patients will face even longer waits for hip and knee operations if action is not taken Fifteen medical bodies say the social care system urgently needs reformed They are ‘gravely concerned’ about the ability to cope with second wave Hospitals will be … Read more
Stone me! At 73, Ronnie Wood the rock maestro shows he’s a bit of an old master, too… as he exhibits his artworks with all profits going to the NHS By Emma Powell Showbusiness Correspondent For The Daily Mail Published: 22:27 BST, 18 August 2020 | Updated: 03:14 BST, 19 August 2020 The band that … Read more
Stone me! At 73, Ronnie Wood the rock maestro shows he’s a bit of an old master, too… as he exhibits his artworks with all profits going to the NHS By Emma Powell Showbusiness Correspondent For The Daily Mail Published: 22:27 BST, 18 August 2020 | Updated: 02:22 BST, 19 August 2020 The band that … Read more
The DIY jab that stops migraines before they start and could save 10,000 patients repeated hospital visits Previously anti-migraine medicine had to be injected by a doctor or a nurse This new development allows patients to self-administer the treatment A special home use injection pen device patients to administer the drug ahead of a migraine … Read more
Last week I was sitting in glorious isolation in my consulting room at St Peter’s Hospital in Chertsey, Surrey, in what felt like a ghost town. There was a deserted waiting room, and outside was a virtually empty car park. My only contact with patients was via the telephone on my desk. Along the corridor, … Read more
Baroness Dido Harding, the former horse jockey who runs the NHS’s disastrous Test and Trace scheme, is to be handed the reigns of Public Health England’s replacement. The 52-year-old is set to be announced today as the head of the Government’s new Institute for Health Protection. Baroness Harding, former chief executive of TalkTalk, was appointed in … Read more
Britain today recorded fewer than 1,000 Covid-19 cases for the first time in a week after 713 more Britons tested positive for the life-threatening disease. Department of Health figures show it is the lowest daily infection toll in almost a fortnight, since 670 new cases of coronavirus were announced on August 4. It means 1,080 … Read more
More than SEVENTY workers test positive for Covid-19 at dessert factory that supplies Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose where bosses threatened to sack staff if they didn’t return after lockdown Seventy-two people tested positive for Covid-19 at Bakkavor Desserts in Newark Factory supplies Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose and has 25 plants nationwide The workers were diagnosed … Read more