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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Huge effort required to deliver Coronavirus vaccine
Could the delivery of a breakthrough vaccine be hampered by the fact that it needs to cross borders? Manufacturers of the vaccine, that was yesterday hailed as providing some much needed hope in the fight against Covid, say it has to be stored at temperatures below minus 70 degrees. But if post-Brexit deals aren’t reached,…
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Hopes rise as Pfizer announces Covid vaccine offers more than 90% protection
Could there be the light at the end of the tunnel? Scientists working on a new vaccine for coronavirus say they have a candidate that is 90% effective. And, crucially, there are no serious side effects. The news comes as the number of cases worldwide hit a record 50 million, with the US becoming the…
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Government rebuked over data used to justify lockdown
The government faced a rebuke from the statistics watchdog, which said that if the public was shown a scientific model, the data behind it should be released.
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UK sees highest daily Covid deaths since early May
The latest daily government Covid figures show there have been 25,177 new positive tests. There have been 492 deaths across the UK – the highest daily toll since mid-May. That brings the official total to 47,742.
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Care home residents may not be able to see family until December
Many care homes have remained completely shut down throughout the pandemic, while others have been told to go back into lockdown.
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‘Four weeks is the minimum period we’ll have to stay in this circuit-break’, says Test and Trace Medical Director
We spoke to Test & Trace Medical Director Dr Susan Hopkins.
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England lockdown could be extended, ministers warn
Stay at home, protect the NHS, save lives – the old mantra for a new lockdown as England prepares to spend at least the next four weeks under stricter coronavirus measures.
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One in 100 people in England infected with Covid last week, ONS figures show
The scale of the rise in Covid-19 cases was laid bare today in figures from the Office for National Statistics.
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On the Covid frontline in UK hospital’s red zone
As Nottingham and Warrington are put under England’s highest tier 3 restrictions, doctors and healthcare workers across the north of England are struggling to cope with rising numbers of patients, many of them seriously ill.
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Test-and-trace system still struggling, as deaths rise
In the last 24 hours there have been a further 21,242 new coronavirus cases across the UK. Another 189 deaths have been reported, taking the total to 44,347.
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Young volunteers to be exposed to Covid in UK vaccine trial
Young, healthy volunteers in the UK could be deliberately exposed to the Coronavirus under highly controlled conditions to speed up the development of a vaccine.
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Inequality and structural racism increased Covid death risk among ethnic minorities, report says
Almost 60,000 more deaths involving coronavirus could have occurred in England and Wales if white people faced the same risk as Black communities, according to research by two leading think tanks.
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What are the chances of a national ‘circuit-breaker’ lockdown?
We were joined by our Health Editor Victoria Macdonald live from Westminster
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No return of England’s shielding scheme for vulnerable people
Our Health and Social Care Editor Victoria Macdonald is in the newsroom.
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Hospitals begin filling up again with Covid patients
As hospitals begin filling up again with Covid patients, we have visited Royal Bolton in the North West to find out what’s happening in the hospital.
