Road closures brought in during the pandemic are causing gridlock and leading to life-threatening delays for the emergency services, campaigners claim. Councils are using emergency coronavirus cash to rush through the ‘green’ measures, an audit of local road schemes suggests. Under the projects brought in to aid social distancing and encourage walking and cycling, portions of … Read more
Hospitals have been warned they must clear beds and brace themselves for a rise in coronavirus patients in the next few weeks. Covid-19 cases, hospital admissions and deaths are all on the rise, government figures revealed yesterday as more than 10 million people will soon be living under local lockdowns as the North East became … Read more
Hospitals have been warned they must clear beds and brace themselves for a rise in coronavirus patients in the next few weeks. Covid-19 cases, hospital admissions and deaths are all on the rise, government figures revealed yesterday as more than 10 million people will soon be living under local lockdowns as the North East became … Read more
Patients will be asked to call NHS 111 to BOOK an appointment at hospital A&E departments to stop health service becoming overwhelmed this winter NHS 111 will become the ‘front door’ to A&E to stop the NHS being overwhelmed Patients will be asked to call and book unless it is a life or death emergency … Read more
NHS hospitals in Bolton, Plymouth and Liverpool have urged patients seeking coronavirus tests to stay away from their A&E departments after they turned up to ask for swabs as the UK’s Covid-19 testing crisis leaves hundreds unable to get checked for the virus. Bolton NHS Foundation Trust said it had seen nearly 100 people come … Read more
After being prescribed antibiotics for a suspected urinary tract infection (UTI), Adam Sawczuk was expecting to bounce back to health within days. He’d had stabbing pain and a dull ache in his groin for more than a week. ‘My GP decided to prescribe stronger fluoroquinolone antibiotics [called ofloxacin] after a seven-day course of a milder … Read more
A drug company says that adding an anti-inflammatory medicine to a drug already widely used for hospitalized COVID-19 patients shortens their time to recovery by an additional day. Eli Lilly announced the results Monday from a 1,000-person study sponsored by the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The result have not yet been … Read more
Doctors in the UK will trial an experimental ‘antibody cocktail’ medicine on patients in hospital with Covid-19. The Oxford University team behind the pioneering RECOVERY trial in Britain, which discovered that the steroid dexamethasone can save patients’ lives, have announced the newest addition to their study. It is a therapy called REGN-COV2 made by the … Read more
GPs are ordered to see patients face-to-face amid fears vulnerable people are ‘having difficulty accessing doctors’ during the pandemic Letter will warn many patients ‘are experiencing difficulty in accessing their GP’ Instructs GPs to remind all patients that they can come in for appointments Letter to be received today also warns doctors not to send … Read more
GPs are ordered to see patients face-to-face amid fears vulnerable people are ‘having difficulty accessing doctors’ during the pandemic Letter will warn many patients ‘are experiencing difficulty in accessing their GP’ Instructs GPs to remind all patients that they can come in for appointments Letter to be received today also warns doctors not to send … Read more