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Supplies of life-saving ventilators for seriously ill children depleted during the coronavirus crisis, charity warns

Jul 12, 2020

Supplies of life-saving ventilators for seriously ill children have been depleted during the coronavirus crisis, a leading charity has warned. WellChild, the national charity for sick children, said that around 3,000 families are facing shortages of equipment such as...

Councils accused of worsening obesity crisis by not reopening children’s play areas

Jul 11, 2020

Those at greater risk of rapid weight gain now need to be allowed to burn off energy with friends in playgrounds, the British Obesity Society (BOS) say. “There has been an absolute disregard for children’s health,” Paul Evans, vice-chairman of the BOS, told The...

Coronavirus crisis reverses years of NHS waiting list progress as delays soar

Jul 9, 2020

Health policy think tanks are warning that, with hospitals set to remain hampered by the need to observe strict infection control and an expected increase in new patients, there is no realistic prospect of clearing the bottlenecks. The long-term support demanded by...

NHS must not use coronavirus crisis as excuse to avoid tackling failings, MPs say

Jul 8, 2020

Sir Simon Stevens, head of the NHS since 2014, has been criticised for the decision to discharge thousands of hospital patients into care homes at the height of the Covid-19 crisis, when there was no routine testing available. On Sunday, Sir Simon said hospitals were...

Air travel is safest form of public transport during coronavirus crisis, says DfT adviser

Jul 2, 2020

“I think that planes are probably the safest form of public transport compared with the anarchy on the Tube with people milling around,” added Prof Woodcock. He noted that there was a misapprehension about the air in planes which, in fact, was replaced...

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