One in three single-handed GPs are at high risk from Covid-19, potentially leaving hundreds of thousands of patients without access to face-to-face appointments.

06 August 2020

NHS England has published the details of its long-awaited General Practice Covid Support Fund, which it said will meet the ‘legitimate additional costs’ caused by the pandemic.

05 August 2020

Hospitals and care homes will gain access to new tests which deliver results in 90 minutes and can tell if a patient is suffering from Covid-19 or flu, the Government has said.

04 August 2020

Frontline healthcare staff have a three-fold higher risk of Covid-19 infection even with adequate PPE, a study using data from a symptom tracker app has found.

31 July 2020

England has suffered the highest rate of excess deaths during the Covid-19 pandemic than any other country in Europe, figures from the Office for National Statistics has shown.

30 July 2020

People with symptoms of coronavirus or a positive test should now self-isolate for 10 days rather than the seven days previously recommended, the Department of Health and Social Care has announced.

30 July 2020

Deaths from Covid-19 may be one-fifth higher than reported by Public Health England (PHE) throughout the coronavirus pandemic, experts have pointed out.

29 July 2020

An influential group of MPs has condemned the Government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic in care homes and branded it as ‘negligent’.

29 July 2020

Advice from a Paediatric infectious diseases consultant PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS NO LONGER RELEVANT AND IS NOT BEING UPDATED BUT HAS BEEN LEFT ON THE SITE FOR REFERENCE PURPOSES ONLY This information is sourced from Dr Alicia Demirjian, Paediatric infectious diseases consultant and epidemiologist Q.

29 July 2020

27 July 2020