New pilot schemes are being launched across England in a bid to encourage people to get tested for Covid-19 and follow self-isolation rules. The pilots will involve increased social care
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Forcing care workers to have a coronavirus vaccine is likely to backfire because they could still turn down a jab if they have been threatened or not given advice by
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The number of Scottish prisoners on remand has grown by more than a third during the pandemic due to delays in criminal trials, campaigners have warned. The Howard League charity
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A major supplier of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) Covid-19 testing kits is in dispute with the Government over a £150 million contract. Novacyt developed one of the UK’s first coronavirus
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Coronavirus care home death statistics were unlawfully kept secret by a department of the Scottish Government, the Scottish Information Commissioner has ruled. National Records of Scotland (NRS), an agency of
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Deals for personal protective equipment (PPE) often failed within “minutes” early in the pandemic, the Government has said as it defended the use of a so-called “VIP lane” in a
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Downing Street has denied that a NHS Test and Trace delay in alerting local authorities in hotspot areas to positive cases helped contribute to the spread of the Indian variant.
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A new report looking into patients being moved from hospitals to care homes in Scotland at the height of the coronavirus pandemic has raised legal concerns – with some going
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Healthcare staff who have worked through the coronavirus crisis should have a similar mental health service as that offered to war veterans, a group of leading medical organisations has said.
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A GP has spoken about her “miracle” recovery after suffering from Covid-19 so severely that she said her final goodbyes to her husband and daughter over video call. Dr Anushua
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