More than £10 billion in extra NHS funding is needed just to tackle the growing backlog in care caused by the pandemic, according to the British Medical Association. The BMA,
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Hopes have been raised that vaccines could end the coronavirus pandemic after a British jab was found to be up to 90% effective in preventing Covid-19. AstraZeneca and Oxford University
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Boris Johnson’s adviser on ministerial standards has resigned after the Prime Minister contradicted his advice by judging that Priti Patel did not breach the rules despite being found to have
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The Home Office has been accused of a “wholly unacceptable failure” after rapidly moving thousands of asylum seekers into hotels around the country amid the pandemic. A report by the
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Northern Ireland will shut non-essential retail, pubs and restaurants for two weeks from November 27 to save the health service from becoming swamped. The country was poised to emerge from
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Covid-19 case rates are continuing to drop in most parts of Wales, latest figures show. The biggest falls are in Merthyr Tydfil, Rhondda Cynon Taf and Bridgend. Rates have climbed
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Registered carers looking after people at home will be able to access weekly coronavirus tests from Monday, the Government has announced. Carers working for providers registered with the Care Quality
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A Wrexham football club fan said he was left speechless after the club’s new celebrity owner donated £6,000 for him to install a specialist disability bath in his home. Aiden
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A “failure” to introduce “adequate” measures to protect care home residents from the “ravages” of Covid-19 is “one of the most egregious and devastating policy failures of recent times”, the
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The first multiple sclerosis (MS) clinical trial focusing only on people who cannot walk will start recruiting participants next year. The ChariotMS study will test whether cladribine tablets (Mavenclad), which
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