Coronavirus testing will increase to 25,000 a day, PHE claim
The government will increase the number of people tested for COVID-19 to 25,000 hospital patients a day, Public Health England…
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Coronavirus: sequencing the DNA of patients screened for coronavirus might save lives
Richard Buggs, professor of Evolutionary Genomics, Queen Mary University of London, and Richard Alan Nichols, professor of Genetics, Queen Mary…
National guidance on managing coronavirus in pregnancy
Guidance for healthcare professionals on managing coronavirus (COVID-19) infection in pregnancy has been published today by the Royal College of…
Emergency legislation ‘will protect NHS volunteers’ battling Coronavirus
The government has outlined emergency legislation to tackle coronavirus, including measures to allow people to leave their jobs and volunteer…
Union calls for coronavirus sick pay for social care workers
Staff on zero-hour contracts, including many social care workers, may not be entitled to sick pay if they have to…
UK in danger of failing a generation of children
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) is calling on the government to ‘prioritise preventative health services’. This…
Austerity blamed for stalling life expectancy
For the first time in more than 100 years, life expectancy has failed to increase across the country, and for…
Call for GP partner model to be phased out
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) says the historic GP ‘partner model’ should be phased out to tackle the…
