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

24 July 2020

GPs can confidently avoid secondary care referrals for colorectal cancer investigation for patients who have had a negative result to a faecal immunochemical test (FIT), a study has concluded.

23 July 2020

Rate of emergency admissions and deaths from coronavirus fell sooner for shielded patients than for the general population, data from NHS Digital shows.

23 July 2020

A third of GPs believe it will take up to a year or longer for their practice to return to pre-Covid levels of capacity, even with ‘no future spikes’ of the virus.

23 July 2020