Coronavirus test kits and protective equipment are among the medical supplies to be delivered to an island via drone. Health authorities in Argyll and Bute, where the trial is taking
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A senior health official on a board overseeing one of the worst-hit areas of the UK for coronavirus in the early days of the pandemic has said it was unable
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Overseas health and care staff will be exempted from the fee levied on migrants to pay for the NHS in a U-turn from Boris Johnson which came after mounting pressure
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Boris Johnson has refused to scrap a charge on overseas health workers for using the NHS, claiming the Government would struggle to find alternative sources of cash. Labour leader Sir
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Families and dependants of migrant NHS support staff who die as a result of contracting coronavirus will be granted indefinite leave to remain, the Government has announced. It follows criticism
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Health and social care workers should be tested “routinely” and on a “mass scale” for coronavirus regardless of whether they have symptoms, according to a panel of experts. Specialists in
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The Government has “no current plans” to exempt foreign care workers from the NHS surcharge, the Foreign Secretary has said. Under immigration rules, workers coming to the UK from outside
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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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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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