The battle against the coronavirus scourge is being waged in village halls and community centres across Britain as an army of volunteers and NHS staff provide vaccines for the most vulnerable in society. As so often in the past, the trojan efforts of small groups of ordinary people are helping to bring the nation back from … Read more
Liverpool’s council leaders today called for a third national lockdown to contain the new ‘mutant’ strain of Covid and prevent a ‘catastrophe’. The city’s acting mayor, Wendy Simon, and the Labour-run city council’s cabinet say the speed of the rise in coronavirus cases have reached ‘alarming levels’ and urgent action is now required to save … Read more
Health bosses last night insisted urgent cancer operations in London will not be scrapped to ease the strain on hospitals inundated with coronavirus patients. Sir David Sloman, NHS regional director for the capital, stressed that surgery is continuing despite the increased demand on hospitals from Covid-19. His pledge came after it was claimed that potentially … Read more
Transplant operations are set to double after experts pioneered new ‘heart in a box’ device to retrieve organs from donors Medics at Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, have developed ‘heart in a box’ Helps to keep the organs in better condition after they are retrieved from donors Enables medical teams to retrieve, restart and assess hearts … Read more
Thousands of Britons at risk of blindness will benefit from a new drug that slows vision loss and can even improve sight. The medicine, brolucizumab, has now been approved by NHS chiefs for patients with wet age-related macular deterioration – a painless yet incurable eye disease that’s the leading cause of blindness in over-55s. Previously, sufferers … Read more
More than 6million people in England use antidepressants as record number turn to pills during Covid lockdown, new figures show By Antony Thrower For Mailonline Published: 12:53 GMT, 2 January 2021 | Updated: 12:58 GMT, 2 January 2021 A record-breaking six million people in England have been prescribed antidepressants as lockdown life continues to impact … Read more
Boris Johnson vows to swell the ranks of key public sector staff after hailing recruitment of 6,000 doctors and 13,000 nurses to NHS in 2020 Prime Minister has ‘unwavering’ commitment to employ more public workers Mr Johnson called for those looking for jobs or a career change to consider He said he wanted to spearhead … Read more
London Assembly members have blasted Sadiq Khan’s £1.5million BBC-backed ‘woke’ pro-EU, NHS and BLM firework and drone display over the Thames. Viewers were quick to criticise the taxpayer-funded New Year’s Eve event, claiming it was ‘ruined by politics’ after Thames bridges were turned blue and yellow in a tribute to the EU as the UK finally left … Read more
Heavily-pregnant university graduate, 22, who was battling Covid woke from nine-day coma to find NHS staff had delivered her baby daughter Mehpara Naqvi was seven months pregnant when she was rushed to hospital 22-year-old developed Covid symptoms in October before struggling to breathe Medics performed a C-section, during which Ms Naqvi’s oxygen levels dropped She is … Read more
A retired doctor has slammed the NHS over red tape checks including anti-radicalisation training which have delayed her helping dish out the Covid vaccine. Former occupational physician Celia Palmer, from London, blasted the health service over its ‘bureaucratic’ system of approval for volunteers. It comes as doctors say they will defy Government orders to give a … Read more