In February, NHS England said they would "communicate further about testing provision for NHS staff and patients," but there have so far been no assurances that staff will still be able to access free tests鈥攐r who is going to pay for it.1 We're just four days away now and 鈥...
Chief Executive Matthew Taylor, said in a statement ahead of today's announcement: "Mandating COVID-19 vaccinations in the NHS offers a further incentive for staff who are eligible but have not come forward yet to get jabbed at a time when the virus continues to be a threat and the NHS ...
As the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic swept through the UK, NHS Trusts responded by adopting data analytics to help them respond to the threat – but so far too few are sharing those findings with others. That’s the verdict from a just-published
The novel coronavirus SARS2-CoV-2 has precipitated the present outbreak of COVID-19, a highly infectious respiratory disease, for which there is presently no effective treatment. The resulting pandemic is having profound and likely long-lasting effects on communities, economies and individuals’ lived...
We are extremely grateful to the 2,648 frontline NHS clinical and research staff and volunteer medical students, who collected this data in challenging circumstances; and the generosity of the participants and their families for their individual contributions in these difficult times. In particular, ...
Especially during first lockdown, the NHS resources were largely diverted to care for COVID-19 patients and avoidance of nosocomial infection with considerable impact on benign routine surgical gynaecological care. The first lockdown saw a wide-ranging redeployment of anaesthetic staff from operating ...
A widely available test such as this would be welcome, particularly in view of recent reports that up to 340,000 cancer patients face later diagnosis due to NHS staff shortages. Cancer diagnosis is not the only challenge facing the NHS. With an aging population, patients...
Terminal 2, Collinson nurses will be on hand to assist in taking a swab within the facility, which is then transported by Swissport staff to a specifically dedicated Collinson biotech lab near Heathrow. The tests will be transported using the same protocols as the NHS uses for home swab tests...
Seen presently during the global COVID-19 global health crisis are the ways government agencies are enabled by digital data collection through the development of contact tracing technologies (CTT) and mobile-based tracking in their effort to limit the sp
The Kruskal-Wallis test was used for the comparison of the distance between the residences of patients and our hospital. All statistical analyses were performed using R ver. 3.6.3 (http://r-project.org/). P < 0.05 was considered to be a significant difference. 3. Results 3.1. Patient ...