Home coronavirus test kits ran out online again in 80 minutes this morning after the Government said everyone over 65 can now get a test if they suffer symptoms. Health Secretary Matt Hancock also said anyone who has to leave home to work will be eligible for a test amid a rush to hit his 100,000 … Read more
More than 90 frontline NHS workers are confirmed to have died during the coronavirus pandemic. Although Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show on Sunday that 78 NHS workers had died, this is only a partial picture. Tributes from local NHS trusts and loved ones have confirmed the deaths of 94 people … Read more
An NHS nurse whose hair fell out through the stress of working on the coronavirus frontline has said she ‘feels like a new woman’ after taking a £35 supplement which left her hairline restored in just eight weeks. Roberta Woodford, 24, from south London, said she struggled for years with hair loss, which would become … Read more
More people may be dying of coronavirus in care homes than in hospitals already, according to a University of Cambridge statistician. Sir David Spiegelhalter made the shocking claim yesterday after the Office for National Statistics released its weekly data showing thousands of people are dying out of hospital and not being counted until weeks later. … Read more
A furious row has broken out among Great Ormond Street paediatricians and the NHS after an alert was dispatched to GPs linking a deadly inflammatory disease to the coronavirus. It comes as a 13-year-old boy from Aberdeen has been fighting for his life after testing positive for coronavirus with unusual symptoms including bloodshot eyes and … Read more
Woman, 35, who stockpiled £2,500 of masks, gloves and face shields refuses to donate any to the NHS as they ‘should have been more prepared’ Becca Brown, from Plymouth, stockpiled masks, gloves, face shields and food She spent more than £2,500 on her ‘PPE kit’ and went £700 into debt to afford it Ms Brown … Read more
Nine in ten nurses are feeling more anxious or stressed than usual, a damning poll revealed today. While thirty-three per cent of NHS nurses asked to rate their overall mental health and wellbeing described it as ‘bad’ or ‘very bad’. Only ten per cent of the 3,500 respondents felt they were getting adequate mental health support … Read more
The primary role of the free Press has always been to hold the mighty to account. To fight injustice, to ask searching questions of the rich and powerful, and to represent the interests of ordinary families when the State becomes oppressive or overweening. But there are times when words alone are not enough. We have … Read more
Health Secretary Matt Hancock revealed today that one of six drugs being trialled to tackle coronavirus in the UK is being tested on patients. Though the Department of Health didn’t name the drug being pushed to the second phase of testing, they did reveal that compounds Bemcetinib, MEDI3506 and Acalabrutinib are being looked at to … Read more
A 13-year-old boy has been left fighting for his life with coronavirus after developing inflammatory symptoms including bloodshot eyes and rashes. Lewis Greig, from Torry, Aberdeen, has been on a ventilator at the Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow, after he fell ill last week with a high temperature. Mother Karen Simpson said the family had … Read more