Tag: Lockdown harms

More than 3,000 diabetics in England may have died due to a lack of health checks during the first year of Covid, a major NHS study warns.

There have been over 4,000 non-Covid excess deaths registered in England and Wales in the last four weeks, official data show. Strokes and heart attacks are up. What's behind the spike?

MPs and members of the public have demanded that civil servants stop blaming working from home and the Covid pandemic for poor service.

Boris Johnson is guilty of misleading the House of Commons and, even more seriously, of putting the lockdown laws on the statute book in the first place, framing them in such a way as to criminalise everyday interaction.

When you enter a healthcare facility you could think you had entered a time warp and were back in the bad old days of lockdown 2020: gallons of hand sanitiser, Perspex screens, masked staff and even security guards.

A new inquiry has concluded that the Government’s top-down attitude to the pandemic and simplistic and exaggerated messaging hindered the public’s ability to respond and caused unnecessary harm.

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.