The government was forced to admit that local public health teams are better at contact tracing than its national NHS Test and Trace contractors. As the TAT scheme was revamped, the contact tracing app reappeared;...
Despite local lockdowns, the NHS in England and Scotland continued to emerge from the first phase of the response to the coronavirus crisis by announcing plans to resume non-Covid activity and keep the virus in...
Worries about the novel coronavirus shifted from the first wave to a potential second wave. Health and social care secretary Matt Hancock delivered a speech on the future of healthcare and said that many of...
The Lords science committee was told that England has just two months to develop effective public health behaviours and a working test and trace programme if it wants to avoid a Covid-19 tsunami this winter....
The UK death toll for hospital and care home patients with a positive test for Covid-19 passed 45,000 as the NHS Test and Trace programme faced further turmoil. Yet attention was shifting to the elements...
Coronavirus spending has exceeded £32 billion. 18,000 more nurses are now working in the NHS than last year, as the NHS celebrates its 72nd birthday. NHS England’s chief has called for urgent social care reform....
The UK’s excess death rate finally stabilised, after reaching 65,200 from the start of the coronavirus outbreak. But the economic and public health impact of the pandemic started to become apparent as firms announced significant...
The English government announced a significant easing of coronavirus restrictions, as it emerged that the failed contact tracing app programme has cost £11.8 million and the test and trace programme could be missing as many...
The troubled contact tracing app being developed by NHSX looked as if it was going to be delayed until the winter – until it was scrapped in midweek in favour of Apple and Google’s ‘decentralised’...
On what should have been the first day of its annual conference, the NHS Confederation warned the health service faced a “long, slow road to recovery” and the government should manage public expectations of what...
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