News Round-Up
24 April 2024
While the Government is keen to 'move on' from partygate, the public can hardly move on from the lockdowns when we've been misinformed, taken for a ride and then taken to the cleaners by the partyers in No 10.
NHS hospitals have once again been told to scrap any patient visiting restrictions introduced during the Covid pandemic so that "no patient has to be alone unless through their choice".
The youngest children have been most harmed by lockdowns, with new research finding that the educational progress and social development of four and five year-olds suffered severely during their first year at school.
The damage to our children highlighted in recent reports should act as a clarion call that we should never close schools again, never send children home to isolate and avoid wearing masks around children.
Progress on tackling dementia has stalled, Sajid Javid admitted on Tuesday, as the NHS dementia chief blamed the lack of in-person GP check-ups during the pandemic for a 24% drop in dementia detection rates.
Toddlers’ speech and motor skills have dropped sharply in the wake of the pandemic owing to limited opportunities to interact and learn, official data show.
NHS bureaucracy has doubled since the start of the pandemic despite little change in the size of the frontline workforce, a new report reveals, as a record 6.4 million people are on waiting lists.
Shanghai officials over the next few days will further restrict access to food and hospitals in the city, the most severe phase of its extended lockdown yet, as China digs in with its Zero Covid strategy.
Public satisfaction with family doctors in Scotland has plummeted to a record low since the first lockdown when they began to refuse to see patients in person, a study has found.
One NHS nurse urged lockdown-sceptic musical Scotch Egg to tour because "it's funny but it's also important. More people need to see it". Another NHS worker thanked the cast for telling the story "that we couldn't tell".
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