Staff, patients and visitors in all NHS settings must continue to wear face coverings and observe social distancing, England’s chief nurse has said, despite coronavirus restrictions being eased from Monday.
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A team of researchers from the University of Hertfordshire, Leeds Beckett University and the University of Nottingham have been awarded over £300,000 of funding from the Alzheimer’s Society to co-design
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Operations across Edinburgh are being postponed because of the pressure caused by increasing numbers of patients and staff infected with coronavirus. NHS Lothian becomes the latest health board to announce
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More than 100 scientists and doctors have signed a letter accusing the UK Government of conducting a “dangerous and unethical experiment” and urging it to reconsider its plans to abandon
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Planned elective operations at one of the largest and busiest hospital trusts in the UK are having to be postponed after an increase in Covid-19 admissions. Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS
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Code black status has been declared at two more hospitals in Scotland due to Covid-19 pressures, with non-urgent elective operations postponed. NHS Grampian said both Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (pictured) and
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All non-urgent elective surgery at a hospital has been cancelled as it comes under pressure amid an increase in Covid-19 cases. NHS Highland said that Raigmore Hospital (pictured) in Inverness
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The Queen has awarded the George Cross to the National Health Services of the UK, recognising all NHS staff in all four nations. In a personal, handwritten message, the Queen
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A hospital has apologised to a woman who was prevented from seeing her dying son in his final weeks. Ollie Bibby, 27, of South Benfleet in Essex, died of leukaemia
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An NHS hospital which upgraded the type of face masks used by staff on Covid-19 wards saw a dramatic fall in hospital-acquired coronavirus infections among those workers, by up to
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