More than 100 coronavirus outbreaks A WEEK are being ‘swiftly’ contained Matt Hancock reveals

More than one hundred outbreaks of coronavirus are ‘swiftly and silently’ being dealt with every week across the UK, said the Health Secretary. Matt Hancock revealed how flare-ups in schools, businesses and pubs across the country are consistently being handled with ‘local actions’, just nine days after many businesses reopened.   He stated that increased testing, some … Read more

Coronavirus contact tracing staff are caught sharing patients’ confidential data

Coronavirus contact tracing staff are caught sharing patients’ confidential data on Facebook and Whatsapp Names, NHS numbers, contact details and case IDs of positive cases shared Staff sent the screenshots for each other when asking for help with system Department of Health said there was a system for tracers needing help  By Luke Andrews For … Read more

Coronavirus contact tracing staff are caught sharing patients’ confidential data

Coronavirus contact tracing staff are caught sharing patients’ confidential data on Facebook and Whatsapp Names, NHS numbers, contact details and case IDs of positive cases shared Staff sent the screenshots for each other when asking for help with system Department of Health said there was a system for tracers needing help  By Luke Andrews For … Read more

Boris Johnson to seize powers from NHS England and hand them to Matt Hancock

Boris Johnson to seize powers from NHS England and hand them to Matt Hancock in bid for more control over the health service Ministers are planning to overhaul the NHS amid coronavirus crisis frustrations They want to ‘clip the wings’ of NHS England’s chief executive Simon Stevens There has been anger among ministers at the … Read more

Boris Johnson to seize powers from NHS England and hand them to Matt Hancock

Boris Johnson to seize powers from NHS England and hand them to Matt Hancock in bid for more control over the health service Ministers are planning to overhaul the NHS amid coronavirus crisis frustrations They want to ‘clip the wings’ of NHS England’s chief executive Simon Stevens There has been anger among ministers at the … Read more

Women in early thirties could soon have eggs frozen on NHS

Women in their early thirties could freeze their eggs on the NHS, Matt Hancock has suggested. The Health Secretary said he was ‘instinctively open’ to the idea of the Government funding egg-freezing for women aged between 30 and 35. Campaigners say this would enable more women to delay having a family to focus on their … Read more

Women in early thirties could soon have eggs frozen on NHS

Women in their early thirties could freeze their eggs on the NHS, Matt Hancock has suggested. The Health Secretary said he was ‘instinctively open’ to the idea of the Government funding egg-freezing for women aged between 30 and 35. Campaigners say this would enable more women to delay having a family to focus on their … Read more

Matt Hancock says ban on care home visits will be lifted ‘in the coming days’

Families can finally look forward to reunions with elderly relatives in the coming days after Matt Hancock suggested the care home visit ban will be lifted imminently. Now the coronavirus crisis has fizzled out, the Health Secretary said the ban on visits is ‘coming to an end very soon’.  The details on how care homes in … Read more