A newly-built Nightingale Hospital is to be converted into a cancer testing centre, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has confirmed. The site, based at a former Homebase store in Exeter, will
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There have now been more deaths related to Covid-19 in care homes than hospitals in Scotland, according to latest figures. National Records of Scotland (NRS) statistics show there have been
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Scotland has passed its coronavirus peak and should get its economy up and running before a second wave in winter, according to scientists. Professor Carl Heneghan and Jason Oke, of
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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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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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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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Health bosses have denied a report that transfers of patients with Covid-19 to the newly built NHS Nightingale in London were rejected due to a lack of nurses. The Guardian
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Health care workers in Northern Ireland have expressed alarm over official coronavirus guidance in England and warned the Stormont authorities not to adopt it. Public Health England said where there
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Anger over lack of supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE) for NHS workers is growing as a desperately needed consignment of 400,000 gowns was delayed. The Government has been under
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Doctors and nurses will be asked to work without full-length gowns and to reuse items when treating coronavirus patients ahead of expected shortages of protective garments. The Government has been
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