V-Day heroine Margaret Keenan has returned to hospital to receive her second dose of Pfizer‘s Covid-19 vaccine after becoming the first person int he world to receive the jab. The grandmother-of-four, from Coventry, was first in line for the vaccine when a mass roll-out began in Britain on December 8. A week after receiving the … Read more
A quarter of England’s hospitals were treating a ‘dangerous’ number of Covid patients in the run up to Christmas, official figures show amid the looming threat of a third national lockdown. MailOnline’s analysis of NHS England data reveals at least a fifth of general beds at 37 trusts were filled by Covid patients in the … Read more
The people of Wirral are officially the fattest in Britain with more hospital admissions for obesity-related illnesses than anywhere else in the country. Hot on their heels are those who live in Wigan, York, Stoke-on-Trent and Nottingham. The five regions all recorded admission rates of over 3,000 per 100,000 population. However, Wokingham and West Berkshire … Read more
NHS student nurse, 36, who was gifted £5,000 from Rod Stewart to help her through ‘rough times’ after she almost died from Covid returns to her dream job at hospital eight months later Trainee nurse Natasha Jenkins, 36, spent 22 days on a ventilator back in March Mother-of-three received £5,000 from Rod Stewart as she … Read more
Nightingale hospitals are being quietly taken apart as medics warn there are too few doctors and nurses to keep the make-shift facilities open. Health bosses have already started stripping London’s of its 4,000 beds, ventilators and even signs directing ambulances to wards, while those in Birmingham and Sunderland are yet to re-open. An eye-watering £220million of taxpayers’ … Read more
Nightingale hospitals are being quietly taken apart as doctors and nurses warn there are not enough of them to keep the make-shift facilities open. Health bosses have already started stripping the emergency unit in London of its 4,000 beds, ventilators and even signs pointing patients to wards, shocking photos reveal, while the hospitals in Birmingham … Read more
Hospitals are ‘back in the eye of the storm’ as they battle rising coronavirus cases, the head of the NHS has warned. Sir Simon Stevens hailed the efforts of staff in what he described as the ‘toughest year’ the health service had ever faced. He said: ‘Many of us will have lost family, friends, colleagues … Read more
Gareth Malone. Justin Bieber. The Lewisham and Greenwich NHS choir could easily have been forgiven for thinking they had already reached the height of fame with their celebrity collaborations. Formed in 2012 for a BBC programme with choirmaster Gareth Malone, the choir went on to catch the attention of the Canadian pop star in 2015, … Read more
Fury as ambulance trust bosses ‘tell paramedics NOT to take up a Brighton hospital’s offer to have the Covid jab’ because there are ‘protocols to follow’ Brighton and Sussex University Hospital offered vaccines to ambulance staff There was an alleged surplus of vaccines on December 27 so staff given chance South East Coast Ambulance Service … Read more
Just 388 people aged under 60 with no underlying health conditions have died of Covid-19 in England’s hospitals since the start of the pandemic, NHS data has showed. The figures show that 1,979 previously healthy people died in hospitals in England after testing positive for Covid-19 between April 2 and December 23. Just 338 of these … Read more