Rules on isolating people who are the contacts of confirmed Covid cases are clogging up hospital beds and “crippling healthcare”, some NHS experts have said. Present guidance to the NHS
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Boris Johnson has said there is a “good chance” he will not impose fresh restrictions to tackle the massive wave of Omicron cases, as he backed sticking with Plan B
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A mother is fighting to free her autistic son who has been kept in a converted hospital filing room for more than four years. Nicola Cassidy says her 24-year-old son
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The NHS is in danger of being “overwhelmed” by the surge in Omicron cases, Health Secretary Sajid Javid has warned, despite further evidence it causes less severe illness than earlier
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The number of people waiting for treatment from NHS Wales has reached record levels, with the Welsh Government admitting they are likely to continue to rise. There are now 680,000
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Unvaccinated people make up to 90% Covid hospital admissions, an ICU doctor said, as health experts urged the Government to improve transparency on pandemic data. Professor Rupert Pearse said the
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Transmission of the Omicron variant is “eye-wateringly high”, though there is still uncertainty about its impact on the NHS and wider services, a leading expert has said. Sir Jeremy Farrar,
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A Welsh health board has apologised after cancelling all non-urgent operations with immediate effect to concentrate its efforts on the booster rollout programme. Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, in north
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A nursing student who was working three full-time jobs and had “fallen asleep” at the wheel when she killed a 13-year-old girl has been jailed. Gardene De Carvalho, 43, of
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Figures suggesting that one in three NHS staff in London could be off work by New Year’s Eve have been branded “catastrophic” by a nursing leader. The possible staff absence
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