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More than 270 patients had to wait over 12 hours to be admitted to the University Hospitals of North Midlands as emergency cases last month. The number of 12-hour emergency waits at the NHS trust more than doubled in October, from 127 to 278, as A&E departments at Royal Stoke, …

Patients in Lincoln can benefit from a new pharmacy which delivers prescriptions – for free – the following day. The recently opened Daytom Pharmacy in the Stirlin Business Park is an independent and delivery-only pharmacy, delivering prescriptions both locally and nationally. Offering a range of other services, it has been …

Privacy concerns have been raised over the Scottish Government’s coronavirus vaccine passport app amid claims the software shares user data with a host of online businesses. Holyrood rolled out plans to demand Scots show proof of inoculation to access nightclubs, football grounds and concerts earlier this month following a ‘grace …

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1129/32362 From The Socialist newspaper, 14 April 2021 Put Tories and capitalism in the dock photo Alberto Giuliani/CC   (Click to enlarge) Rob Williams, Socialist Party workplace and trade union organiser Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson has presided over a coronavirus catastrophe that has left over 127,000 …

A health-check service has launched an anti-body test to track unique responses to coronavirus and the vaccine. The Bingham-based Medichecks fingerprick test can be taken at home and detects anti-bodies to the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 (covid-19). The service said it means individuals can monitor their personal anti-body levels, paving …

Both the Duchess of Cambridge and the Queen wear gloves from Cornelia James, some of which are made from fabric treated with an anti-microbial coating called HeiQ Viroblock Cornelia James Imogen Gloves are seen above We all have our favourite products we rely on for our health needs — and …

Australia is facing a hidden epidemic of loneliness, which is driving up rates of depression and anxiety and causing people to die years before they should. With hundreds of thousands of people feeling desperately alone, researchers and mental health professionals are sharpening their focus on the negative effects of loneliness, …

  Australian medics in the UK have revealed intensive care unit admissions have plummeted since the vaccine rollout. And cases among frontline staff who were first in line for jabs have dropped significantly, with those who have had the jab telling their friends and family back home to jump at …

LONDON (AP) — The British government declared Sunday that every adult in the country should get a first coronavirus vaccine shot by July 31, at least a month earlier than its previous target, as it prepared to set out a “cautious” plan to ease the U.K.’s lockdown. The new target …

BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbia has received a first shipment of 150,000 AstraZeneca vaccines, adding to the three other vaccines already in use. The Balkan nation of 7 million has administered more than 1 million doses so far, which is among the top results in Europe. Most Serb citizens have received …