Tag Archives: News from the UK

[ad_1] New data shows that the number of people who have to wait more than 52 weeks to start hospital care continues to rise. Across England, 139,545 people had waited over 52 weeks to start treatment as of September this year, the highest number for any calendar month since September …

[ad_1] The professor. John Hurst, of UCL’s division of medicine, said: “Understanding the ‘long Covid’ is critical to helping people who have had this life-changing experience get back to health.” To monitor patients who had recovered from coronavirus, the team set up follow-up clinics to examine both psychological and physiological …

[ad_1] Two vast facilities the size of a football field equipped with hundreds of large freezers in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and Puurs, Belgium, will be the centers of the massive effort to ship the coronavirus vaccine developed by the US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and the company. German biotech BioNTech, around. the …

[ad_1] A fossil that had been languishing in a museum drawer in Brighton, wrongly labeled as a shark fin skeleton, has now been identified as an entirely new species of prehistoric flying reptile that soared majestically over what are now marshes of the Cambridgeshire. Roy Smith, a PhD student at …

[ad_1] 3.26pm GMT 15:26 Sturgeon says three areas of the Scottish council face tougher Covid restrictions Libby Brooks No local authority in Scotland has been placed under the highest level of Covid restrictions – with rules similar to the current England blockade – such as Nicola Sturgeon announced its first …

[ad_1] 12.20 GMT 00:20 Richard Partington The UK economy is set for a pre-Christmas slump with further job losses and store closures, despite government measures to protect businesses during the latest Covid-19 restrictions. Polls on business activity reveal a steep drop as new and stiff restrictions were rolled out across …

[ad_1] The pandemic has put off attitudes to driving over public transport by two decades, with nearly two-thirds of car owners in the UK now considering their vehicle essential, according to research. A clear majority would now refuse to switch to a greener alternative even if better trains or buses …

[ad_1] Starwatch November 9, 2020 Venus and Mercury There is a beautiful alignment to look out for in this week’s morning sky as the waning crescent moon makes its way towards the brilliant Venus lighthouse and the rarely seen innermost planet Mercury. Spica is added to the scene, the brightest …

[ad_1] Nurses will be able to care for two critically ill patients with Covid-19 at the same time after NHS leaders loosened the rule that requires individual treatment in intensive care as hospitals are under severe strain. NHS England has decided to temporarily suspend the 1: 1 rule as the …

[ad_1] The government faces new demands for the demolition of the NHS central testing and tracing system in favor of handing over responsibility for contact tracing to local public health teams. Weekly test and trace data for England shows it has achieved just under 60% of close contacts of people …