NHS England is to invest 160m (€186m; $225m) to test new initiatives to reduce the hospital waiting lists that have soared to 4.7 million people during the covid-19 pandemic. Selected areas of England will test quicker access to diagnostic testing at one stop facilities, pop-up clinics ...
NHS staff who work directly with patients should have routine access to face masks that offer high protection because covid-19 infections threaten to overwhelm services, doctors' leaders have said. Three national organisations said that filtering facepiece respirators (FFP3s) should be made fully ...
The government has done a last minute U turn on its plan to make covid-19 vaccination mandatory for NHS staff in England. Medical bodies welcomed the reversal on the plan, which they had warned would exacerbate chronic workforce shortages in the health service by causing thousands of staff to...
The pandemic may finally have made the argument, reports Jane Feinmann In March 2020, the UK government commissioned non-medical manufacturers, including Dyson and Renault, to produce ventilators for the excess number of patients expected to have respiratory failure as a result of covid-19. ...