Victoria Macdonald , Health and Social Care Editor

The latest 24-hour government figures show there have been another 43,738 new cases in the UK. Another 223 people are reported to have died with Covid – the highest daily number since March

GPs in England have been told to arrange more face to face appointments, as the government unveiled an emergency winter rescue plan aimed at improving access. 

MPs have described the government’s handling of the pandemic as one of the worst public health failures the UK has ever experienced. 

Thousands of families across the country are waiting to find out if there will be a judicial review into the way healthcare for their loved ones is funded, under a system many describe as broken. 

The prime minister may have lauded the UK’s vaccine rollout as “faster than any other major economy in the world” in his speech today. But now infections are rising again while the vaccine rollout seems to be faltering. New Covid infections are highest among school children, but so far only 6.5 per cent of 12…

Malnourished children are dying from Covid in one of the last rebel-held areas in Syria, where crowded hospitals are struggling to cope with an influx of patients suffering from the virus.

Mothers and babies are still at risk of dying because of poor maternity care, the NHS watchdog has warned.

The vaccine booster rollout has begun with third jabs being offered to people in care homes, the over 50s, frontline health and social care staff and vulnerable people.

Harassed, bullied or abused at work by members of the public, colleagues and their own managers – that’s the experience of thousands of ethnic minority staff working in mental health trusts around England.

Covid booster jabs could start being handed out later this month, according to the Health Secretary Sajid Javid, who says he’s now just waiting for advice on who should be eligible. 

Less than £5.5 billion of the £12 billion raised will actually go towards social care in the first three years. 

The prime minister has announced a £5.4 billion injection into the NHS in England in the next six months.

The government’s advisers on vaccinations have for the first time ever asked ministers to seek extra advice on giving 12 to 15-year-old children the Covid jab.

Around half a million people in the UK with severely weakened immune systems are to be offered a third dose of the Covid vaccine, but it’s not to be confused with any potential booster.

Covid cases across the UK have fallen for the sixth day in a row. Downing Street insisted the pandemic was “not over and we are not out of the woods yet”, and that the downward trend could be reversed once the full effects of lifting England’s restrictions a week ago today begins to filter through.