Tag: NHS

The Government is asking the public for its views on vaccine passports. Click on the link in the story to make your views known.

To help reduce long waiting lists, hospitals in England have been told they can scrap some of the anti-Covid measures introduced during lockdown, including testing and isolating patients before planned operations.

People living in England's poorer regions are almost twice as likely to have to wait more than 12 months for hospital treatment – and waiting lists are growing more quickly in these areas than elsewhere.

The cancer patient backlog in the NHS – caused in part by the "stay at home, protect the NHS" drive – could take more than a decade to clear, according to new research – and thousands more will be lost along the way.

Record numbers of children and young people are seeking access to mental health services, according to analysis by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and an "unprecedented" number of children are waiting for care.

A drop in emergency referrals for cancer during lockdown – partly caused by the "stay at home, protect the NHS" message – is likely to result in an extra 10,000 deaths from the disease, according to a new study.

The Daily Sceptic's in-house doctor writes that "NHS managers at the highest level have repeatedly been caught out concealing important information or distorting published data".

The Government may impose mask mandates, vaccine passports and another lockdown if Covid hospitalisations increase. But almost a quarter of 'Covid inpatients' are actually in hospital for something else, figures show.

We're publishing another terrific post on the Daily Sceptic by Charlotte Niemiec. This one is about the unseemly haste with which the Government raised National Insurance and the flimsy rationale for doing so.

England's NHS waiting list has risen to a new high of 5.6 million, with almost 300,000 people waiting for more than 52 weeks to start treatment.