Health officials have also traced the contacts of the person, it is understood. Source link

“One of the most common reasons is about trust. When it comes to staff belonging to black, Asian and other minority communities, for example, some feel they haven’t been at the front of the queue for anything in terms of health before, and question why they are suddenly at the front of the queue now,” […]

President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Dr Adrian James, also described the extra funding as a “welcome development”, but cautioned services needed to be set up quickly and action needed to be taken to make sure there were enough specialist staff to actually run them. Source link

Figures for the week up to 26 February suggest around 1-in-230 people has the virus, ONS says. Source link

The Good Law Project, a campaign group involved in the legal action against the government, estimates that since March 2020, the Department of Health and Social Care has taken an average of 98 days to publish details of Covid-related contracts. The government gives a lower number – saying publication was, on average, 17 days over […]

Unions call a proposed 1% increase a “kick in the teeth” after Covid, but ministers say money is tight. Source link

“I came across this very interesting piece of information, that people who got Covid-19 were having weird dreams. I thought that was an amazing idea to explore. I also wanted to challenge myself to try to depict something which is very serious and slightly depressing, in an unusual and visually different way,” she says. Source […]

Knowing which windows to open and having shorter lessons could help when children return to school. Source link

Prof Martin Marshall, chair of the Royal College of GPs, said: “The focus for GPs and our teams is currently to offer vaccinations to patients from group six… this is a large group of approximately seven million patients, and it is likely some patients in this group will not yet have been invited for their […]