Furious patients waiting for Covid checks were turned away from a testing site on Thursday morning after NHS staff failed to show up. A huge queue of cars snaked around the Tower... Read more »
Soldiers have been drafted in to help make sure as many people as possible can get their anti-Covid vaccine booster jabs. Armed Forces personnel have joined up with the local NHS staff to... Read more »
Here are the latest figures on staff absences in the NHS, amid a worsening self-isolation crisis that has depleted key workforces across the country. The issue is being compounded by a lack... Read more »
Local health and care services in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire are under a significant amount of pressure and as a result have made an urgent plea to the public to help them. Nationally... Read more »
Ministers have been urged to cut the Covid isolation period from seven to five days with experts warning that NHS staff shortages pose a bigger threat than rising patient numbers. The Health... Read more »
NHS England has said there are 200,000 vaccination appointments available on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day and urged anybody due a booster to consider coming forward “to get the gift... Read more »
Cybercrime officers investigating suspected fake Covid-19 vaccination records have made two arrests. On December 22, a 28-year-old woman from Redbridge was arrested, after a 36-year-old man from Ilford was arrested on December... Read more »
A man attacked an NHS doctor with a knife in hospital accomodation after claiming to want to buy his PlayStation 5 on an online marketplace. Ever Francis, 18, from Peckham attacked the... Read more »
Hospitals and the ambulance service in London are ‘likely to become overwhelmed due to rising Covid demand in the next two-three weeks’, a leaked document reveals. An NHS England document, leaked to... Read more »
A nursing leader has warned of a potentially “catastrophic” NHS staffing shortage in London, with new figures suggesting one in three workers could be off due to COVID at the end of... Read more »
