Beefed-up contact tracing to track the spread of coronavirus will begin in Northern Ireland next week. It was largely stopped last month based on “sound public health considerations” but will
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The NHS’s flagship Nightingale pop-up hospital is operating at roughly one per cent of its capacity because it does not have the staff required to expand the number of patients
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Health Secretary Matt Hancock has promised to address the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on care homes as England’s chief medical officer admitted there would likely be a “high mortality rate” in
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The Foreign Secretary has declined to commit to publishing the findings from a Government pandemic drill in 2016 amid questions being raised over how well prepared the UK was for
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British firms are set to send tens of thousands of items of vital personal protective equipment (PPE) to Europe rather than the NHS due to a “lack of response from
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Social care is an “afterthought” for the Government and public, one care homes boss has said. Jeremy Richardson (pictured), chief executive of Four Seasons care homes, said the NHS would
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International e-commerce giant eBay has built a new pilot e-portal for NHS staff to order protective equipment used to tackle the coronavirus outbreak safely. The firm said it had built
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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said deaths in care homes are not inevitable as new figures show they account for a third of all Covid-19 fatalities in Scotland, a rise
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Dominic Raab has condemned the Welsh Government for “abandoning” its target of 5,000 coronavirus tests a day. The Foreign Secretary – deputising for Boris Johnson as the PM continues his
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Almost 300 Covid-19 cases have been confirmed in Northern Ireland’s nursing and residential homes, the Public Health Agency (PHA) said. NHS staff have been drafted in to bolster numbers and
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