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Staff and residents in care homes for over 65s and those with dementia will receive regular coronavirus tests from next week.
Half-a-million NHS frontline staff have benefited from mobile and fixed broadband offers to stay connected during the coronavirus outbreak.
The contact-tracing programme failed to reach a quarter of people who tested positive for coronavirus in England between 18 and 25 June.
Figures indicate that many people in England are still waiting longer than 24 hours for their coronavirus test results.
Almost half of physician specialties expect to be working at less than previous pre-coronavirus activity levels for at least 12 months or more.
A report has found that the majority of ICS and STP leaders support widespread new powers for systems in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic.
Public Health England’s Couch to 5k app has been adopted by hundreds of thousands of people seeking to get in shape during lockdown.
The government is facing rising calls for a robust and independent lessons-learned exercise into the handling of coronavirus.
725,000 fewer people were admitted to English hospitals for non-urgent treatment in March and April than would normally be the case.
NHS patients in England will be some of the first people in Europe to benefit from a new treatment for cystic fibrosis.
A new NHS Providers report has highlighted the scale of the challenge ahead as the NHS recovers from the first peak of the virus.
The government has been urged to change its approach to coronavirus testing before it is too late.
The NHS must not be allowed to ‘slip back’ to poor workplace culture, bullying and inappropriate behaviour as it emerges from the current crisis.
Vital community health services risk being tangled in bureaucratic contracts and face serious cuts unless the government steps in.
Matt Hancock has confirmed that Leicester will undergo the UK's first full local lockdown with stricter measures imposed in the city.
NHS staff have been praised for providing vital tests and treatment to tens of thousands of cancer patients during the coronavirus pandemic.
Doctors have said that people who were seriously ill in hospital with coronavirus need to be urgently screened for post-traumatic stress disorder.
The Ministry of Defence has announced that the number of mobile coronavirus testing units in the UK will more than double in the coming weeks.
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UK Building Regulations highlight toxic gas and smoke from layers of paint built up over multiple redecorations as a major cause of permanent ill health or death in a building fire.
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