Victoria Macdonald , Health and Social Care Editor
Victoria Macdonald is Health and Social Care Editor at Channel 4 News.
Victoria Macdonald is an award-winning journalist, who has been covering health and social care issues for Channel 4 News since 1999.
She reports on changes in the NHS - the reforms and the politics - whether it is in hospitals or in the community or, indeed in Westminster.
She closely follows the care system and how it impacts on the elderly and those with disabilities as well as investigating issues, including mental health, HIV/Aids and TB, and child health.
Victoria is originally from New Zealand and worked for the Sunday Telegraph before joining Channel 4 News.
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Covid: PCR testing rules eased for those without symptoms
Health and Social Care Editor Victoria Macdonald has the latest on the changes to Covid testing rules.
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Covid: Johnson hopes to ‘ride out Omicron’ without another lockdown
Schools are short of teachers, supermarkets are struggling to find staff, trains are cancelled and hospitals are declaring critical incidents.
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Covid: Omicron up to 70% less likely to require hospital admission, UKHSA finds
Covid cases have soared to a new record high, but there’s been some encouraging news from public health experts who say people with Omicron are 50 to 70% less likely to need hospital treatment compared to Delta, based on preliminary research.
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Covid: ‘Huge numbers of infection’ will have ‘knock-on effect’ on hospitalisations
The Westminster government says it’s reviewing data hour by hour to determine whether further restrictions are needed, if at all.
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Covid: Are cases plateauing?
From the official figures it looks like Covid cases are plateauing, albeit at a very high level, but is that really the case?
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Covid: Boris Johnson refuses to rule out further restrictions
No new restrictions for England – yet. That was what Boris Johnson said today as he insisted the government is monitoring Covid data “hour by hour” and would not hesitate to take further action.
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Covid: NHS staff sickness impacted by Covid case rise
Our health and social care editor Victoria Macdonald explained how Covid case numbers have impacted NHS staff sickness.
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Covid: Inside an ICU as UK cases hit new record high
The surge in Omicron has already pushed Covid infections to their highest on record and that is just the cases we know about.
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Covid: UK records highest number of daily cases since pandemic began
Prioritise the social interactions that really matter to you – that’s the advice from the UK’s chief medical adviser Chris Whitty this evening as he outlined the massive surge in Covid cases.
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Covid: Omicron spreading at unprecedented rate says WHO
Today the World Health Organisation stated that Omicron was spreading at an unprecedented rate, as the fight to contain the variant continues.
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England A&E departments at record high with 10,000 patients waiting over 12 hours for treatment last month
High numbers of Covid cases are expected to put more pressure on the NHS – which is already under tremendous strain.
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Covid Plan B for England announced as Omicron spreads
It’s official – England will be moving to Plan B measures to control surging Omicron cases.
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Omicron Covid appears “more transmissible” than Delta variant
With this Christmas again set to be dominated by Covid – the Prime Minister has briefed ministers about the Omicron variant – saying it appears to be “more transmissible” than Delta.
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Covid: Unvaccinated banned from pubs and non-essential shops in Germany
In South Africa, cases of the new omicron variant of Covid-19 are continuing to surge, as the world waits to see how seriously it should take this new development.
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Social care white paper widely criticised
There were high hopes that the long-awaited social care white paper would deliver ambitious plans for how billions of pounds would be spent over the next decade.
