Maternity scandal: the battle for justice
A review into maternity care at the Shrewsbury Trust has published its initial findings – and it makes for very difficult reading.
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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‘I feel I’m in a war zone – it’s not getting better’: Inside UK intensive care
Hospitals across the country are facing a desperate struggle to cope.
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Army will use ‘battle preparation techniques’ in Covid vaccine rollout
Boris Johnson has pledged the full force of the Army and its “battle preparation techniques” to ramp up the rollout of the Covid vaccine, as frustrated GPs said they simply had not been given enough supplies. For exhausted hospital staff, there’s no let up: beds are almost at capacity and intensive care units are filling…
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Covid: UK records highest daily death toll since April
The government figures for the last 24 hours are undoubtedly sobering.
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Inside a Covid hospital ward as lockdown begins
Hospitals are under unbearable pressure – wards filling up, crucial operations cancelled, oxygen running low.
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People ordered to stay at home in new English lockdown
Our correspondents Victoria Macdonald and Gary Gibbon react to the PM’s statement.
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Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine rollout begins in UK
People across the UK have begun receiving the first doses of the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, but it’s becoming a desperate race to increase the scale and the speed of the vaccination programme. And apart from promises, there are few details from ministers about how that can happen.
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UK public urged to stay home for New Year’s Eve as Covid hospital patients rise
Nightingale hospitals across England are being made ready for emergency use.
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England school reopenings delayed
Our health and social care editor Victoria Macdonald is in the newsroom.
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Scientists say Covid variant is spreading across UK – but no evidence it is more dangerous
Scientific experts have said that the coronavirus variant has spread from the east and south east of England to the rest of the country.
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More than two million cases of coronavirus confirmed in the UK
There have now been more than two million confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK, underlining the seriousness of the crisis. Including another 27,052 new infections in the last 24 hours. 534 deaths have been reported, the official number of people who’ve now died from Covid 19 stands at 67,075 and 350,000 people in the…
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Millions in east and south-east England to move into toughest Covid rules
More than two-thirds of England’s population will be living under the toughest coronavirus measures, as latest figures showed Covid cases are on the rise in every region of the country except one.
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UK government under pressure to tighten Christmas Covid rules
The government has been accused of blundering into a major error that will cost lives, if it goes ahead with plans to ease Christmas restrictions. This was the stark warning from two major health journals today.
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Health Secretary says new variant of Covid detected – as London moves to Tier 3 restrictions
More than 10 million people in London and parts of Essex and Hertfordshire will fall under Tier 3 restrictions.
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NHS told not to give vaccine to people with history of ‘significant’ allergic reactions
Two NHS workers have developed an allergic reaction to the coronavirus vaccine which was rolled out across the UK yesterday. The regulator has now issued a warning that those with severe allergies should not get it.
