Thousands of doctors unable to offer patients the desperate care they need as a...

In the midst of the biggest health crisis in recent history, thousands of doctors say important wider patient care has been neglected in the...

WHO chief warns against ‘catastrophic moral failure’ in COVID-19 vaccine access

A “me-first approach” to COVID-19 vaccines on the part of some countries and manufacturers is putting equitable access to these lifesaving treatments at risk,...

Pandemic habits ingrained for 2.7m high-risk drinkers

A third of high-risk UK drinkers were drinking more in May than before the pandemic, according to new findings from alcohol education charity Drinkaware. While...

25,000 released from hospital into care homes at start of Covid crisis without being...

As the Government freed up space in the NHS at the beginning of the Covid 19 crisis, around 25,000 people were discharged from hospitals into...

Leese-The evidence is that it is not hospitality that is spreading Covid but household...

The leader of Manchester Council has set out his principles for controlling the spread of the pandemic and doesn’t believe the response should be...

Could coronavirus be causing another illness in children?

A serious coronavirus-related syndrome may be emerging in the UK, according to an “urgent alert” issued to doctors, following a rise in cases in...

How one rasher of bacon a day increases the risk of dementia

Eating processed meat has been linked with an increased risk of developing dementia. Scientists from the Leeds University’s Nutritional Epidemiology Group used data from 500,000 people,...

Autism will be a meaningless condition in just ten years say scientists because it...

If current trends in diagnostic practices continue, the definition of autism may get too vague to be meaningful according to researchers. The number of people...
Volunteers will be invited to return to mobile clinics over the coming weeks for their second appointment as part of the NHS-Galleri trial

Greater Manchester volunteers return to help NHS trial new cancer screening test

Hundreds of volunteers from across Greater Manchester – including Oldham, Salford, Manchester, Trafford, Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale, Wigan, Bury, Bolton, Stockport, Tameside and Glossop...

Health and manufacturing unions in joint call for PPE ‘manufacturing army’

The country's leading manufacturing union Unite, doctors’ union, the British Medical Association, Unison and the Royal College of Nursing have today (Friday 3 April) joined...