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London Ambulance Service and London Fire Brigade have announced a new partnership to boost the coronavirus emergency response.
The AA has launched a free breakdown service for NHS workers during the coronavirus crisis.
The AA has partnered with London Ambulance Service to provide additional support during the coronavirus epidemic.
Up to 3,000 armed forces reservists are being called upon to aid the military response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Only 2,000 NHS frontline workers have been tested for coronavirus so far, despite one in four being off work with suspected symptoms.
Matt Hancock has said that hospitals should use spare laboratory space to test self-isolating NHS staff in England for coronavirus.
£15 million will be provided to GP practices across Scotland to help them cope with extra pressures arising from coronavirus.
Michael Gove has revealed that the first devices from the government’s ventilator challenge will roll off the production line this coming weekend.
Professor Andrew Goddard has claimed that one in every four NHS doctors is off work sick or in quarantine.
The BMA has announced a new partnership to protect the physical and mental well-being of doctors on the frontline.
Doctors, nurses and paramedics with visas due to expire before 1 October 2020 will have them automatically extended for one year.
When it opens, the Nightingale hospital at London’s ExCeL will treat up to 4,000 previously fit and healthy people struck down by coronavirus.
Scientists have claimed that a simple blood test can check for more than 50 types of cancer, often before any signs or symptoms appear.
Patients in six hospitals across Scotland are to receive free bedside television for the next three months.
New measures are being introduced to further improve the distribution of PPE to health and social care staff across Scotland.
People staying at home suffering with suspected coronavirus symptoms will get regular check-ins from a new NHS messaging service.
NHS staff will receive free travel on buses throughout Wales in return for hardship funding over the next three months.
The number of people committing to join the NHS coronavirus effort is three times higher than initially targeted.
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