Aug 4, 2020
The Department of Health and Social Care said it was working closely with local authorities and had “assigned a ring-fenced group of NHS contact tracers to follow up positive cases” in Blackburn with Darwen. Council workers are assigned to knock on doors in cases where such efforts fail. Officials in Greater Manchester are understood to […]
Jul 30, 2020
Health officials said the widespread rollout of “asymptomatic testing” could be used as a route to reducing the length of quarantine. However, it may also be used to keep watch on countries which pose a threat to the UK, meaning it could trigger additions to the...
Jul 28, 2020
A blood test for Alzheimer’s disease – capable of spotting the condition years before memory loss and confusion occur – is on the horizon. Scientists found that tiny fragments of a protein which appears in the brain of people with dementia, also starts to circulate in...
Jul 23, 2020
The plans come amid increasing concern that the NHS Test and Trace system is failing to reach adequate numbers of people who may be ill in places with the highest infection rates. The Government has pledged to publish regional data, but has not yet done so. Thee...
Jul 20, 2020
The NHS Test and Trace programme has been accused of breaching data protection laws after the Government admitted it had failed to carry out a mandatory check. The news has prompted warnings that the public has no guarantee that medical records and personal details...
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