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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Government detects ‘more than 40 clusters of Indian Covid variant’
The government is thought to have detected more than 40 clusters of the Indian Covid variant in the UK, and is on the verge of declaring it a “variant of concern”.
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Entire G7 Indian delegation self-isolate after two Covid cases detected
The entire Indian delegation to the G7 summit in London has been forced to self-isolate after two members tested positive for Covid.
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India battles Covid second wave as oxygen becomes scarce
It is home to the biggest Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing facility in the world, but that has not saved India from a deadly second wave that threatens to overwhelm hospitals and crematoria.
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Disparity between wealthy and low-income countries now counted in jabs
The government here has confirmed the latest data for vaccinations in the last 24-hour period.
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Johnson cancels trip to India as it is added to Covid travel ‘red list’
The prime minister will not visit India next week as a result of the continuing surge in cases there.
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Surge testing for South Africa Covid-variant carried out in two London boroughs
Hundreds of thousands of people across south London are being urged to get tested for the coronavirus in an effort to contain an outbreak of the highly infectious South Africa variant.
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Covid vaccines to be rolled out to over-40s in England
Covid vaccines could be offered to people aged over 40 as early as this week, according to one NHS official, and doses of the Moderna vaccine may also begin to be rolled out in England.
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Covid: WHO demands countries prioritise health worker vaccines
The World Health Organization has reiterated its demand that vaccinating all health workers should be an urgent priority for every nation. It set a target of achieving that goal globally within 100 days back in January, but there are only nine days of that period remaining and the target has a long way to go.…
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Liberia on alert as Ebola outbreak hits neighbouring Guinea
An Ebola outbreak in Guinea in west Africa has put six bordering nations on alert, while the World Health Organization has begun a mass vaccination programme.
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Liberia restarts polio vaccination campaign after Covid forces pause
Polio has begun to re-emerge in Liberia. We are in Monrovia, where they have re-started their polio campaign today after the vaccination programme was cancelled because of Covid.
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UK and European regulators declare AstraZeneca vaccine ‘safe and effective’
UK and European regulators have declared the AstraZeneca vaccine is “safe and effective” and its benefits in protecting people from Covid far outweigh any risks.
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Exclusive: NHS in England ‘needs £12 billion a year boost’ to recover from Covid
Millions of GP appointments missed, record waiting lists for mental health treatment, and cancer deaths predicted to rise – the true price of the pandemic, according to a new report by a leading think tank, given exclusively to Channel 4 News. The IPPR says NHS England will need £12 billion a year extra for both…
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Germany, France and Italy temporarily suspend use of AstraZeneca vaccine
France and Germany have joined Italy in the growing list of countries to suspend their rollouts of the AstraZeneca vaccine, amid fears over blood clots.
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Coronavirus: How the world looked one year ago today – as a pandemic was declared
Today marks exactly a year since the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Since then there have been changes to our lives that we could barely have imagined back then. And our understanding of the virus has changed as well. In the UK, the latest government figures show that in the last 24…
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‘No clear evidence’ NHS Test and Trace has worked, say MPs
It’s costing £37 billion over two years, but it’s unclear whether it’s working. That’s the verdict of MPs on the Test and Trace system in England.
