Health

I spoke to Professor Peter Openshaw who’s a member of the Government body, Nervtag, a subgroup of SAGE which advises on the threats from respiratory viruses.  

A leading government scientific advisor has warned that unless ministers act soon to curb soaring Covid cases, the country could face another “lockdown Christmas”.  

We were joined by Jeremy Brown, professor of respiratory infection at UCL and member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, the group of experts which advises the government on vaccines.

Act now to control surging Covid cases or risk tougher measures later: that’s the message from the government’s scientific advisers. Boris Johnson says all measures are under review, but urged people to get their booster jab. This is as figures show England’s average daily hospital admissions for Covid patients are now at their highest for…

We spoke to Dr Alistair Blair, the medical director for Northumbria Healthcare Trust, and Nadra Ahmed, the chair of the National Care Association.

In England, the government is under increasing pressure to bring in Plan B – back to masks, social distancing and working from home.  

This afternoon the health secretary said he doesn’t believe the pressures currently faced by the NHS are unsustainable, and that’s why he’s not ordering a move to Plan B measures – for example, the compulsory wearing of face masks, despite the warnings today from the NHS Confederation. 

The prime minister today condemned attacks on NHS staff after hearing from a Midlands MP how over 600 attacks on staff at her local hospital have prompted those working in the A&E department to resort to wearing body cameras. 

Is the UK going to have to change course on Covid in the face of rising cases, hospitalisations and deaths?

A chance to change the course of a disease that in 2019 killed more than 260,000 children in Africa.

A serious incident investigation has been launched to find out why up to 43,000 people in England and Wales may have been wrongly given negative results on their PCR tests. Testing operations provided by a lab run by Immensa Health Clinic Ltd in Wolverhampton have been suspended. The company has said it’s “fully collaborating” with…

With the ongoing pandemic and a huge backlog already adding pressure, will the NHS cope this winter? And what are the government’s plans to get us through it?

MPs have described the government’s handling of the pandemic as one of the worst public health failures the UK has ever experienced. 

With me now is Katherine O’Brien who is a spokesperson for the British Pregnancy Advisory Service. And we’re also joined by Professor Geeta Nargund who is the founder of CREATE Fertility, which runs fertility clinics.

Students at an all female Cambridge college will be given lessons on fertility – after the college’s new president said she wanted to stop young women “forgetting to have a baby” until it was too late.