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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Senior doctors fear rise in Covid cases as hospital beds fill across UK
As the number of coronavirus infections continues to rise, senior doctors are warning that NHS beds are filling up fast.
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Mental health reforms promised by government two years ago still unpublished
A white paper on reforms to the Mental Health Act promised nearly two years ago still hasn’t been published, despite repeated calls for reforms to help address racial bias.
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Bradford Novavax vaccine trial seeks more volunteers from BAME backgrounds
In Bradford, large-scale human trials of the Novavax vaccine have begun their phase 3 trials, the first in the world to reach this stage with this particular vaccine.
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10% of world population may have had Covid
A WHO official has warned that the vast majority of the world’s population is still at risk from coronavirus.
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Missing UK Covid cases blunder ‘should never have happened’, says Hancock
England’s missing coronavirus cases should never have happened, the health secretary has admitted.
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New Covid restrictions in northern England
There are still high rates of coronavirus infections across England, according to the latest research from Imperial college.
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Johnson apologises after ‘misspeaking’ about local lockdown rules
The Prime Minister has apologised after he “misspoke” as he tried to explain new lockdown restrictions being imposed in the North East of England. More and more areas face curbs as the virus spreads across the country leading to confusion. Today, the UK recorded 7,143 new cases, the biggest daily rise since the start of…
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UK hospitals race to clear backlog as coronavirus cases rise
The number of new UK coronavirus cases has soared by more than 6,000 in the last 24 hours. So too the number of deaths – and those needing hospital treatment.
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Covid restrictions: What Boris Johnson is likely to announce
Our Health and Social Care Editor Victoria Macdonald is in Downing Street.
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50,000 Covid cases a day warning for UK as alert level raised
The latest daily UK figures show that there have been 4,368 new Covid cases, and the latest 24-hour death figure is 11.
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Baroness Harding admits demand for Covid tests is three to four times capacity
Baroness Harding has admitted the number of people trying to book tests was “three to four times” the number of tests which were available.
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Why the testing system isn’t working
What’s gone so badly wrong with the testing system and can it be fixed?
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Coronavirus: Health Secretary says it will take ‘weeks’ to fix testing chaos
The Health Secretary Matt Hancock has defended the Covid testing system after MPs challenged him over lack of availability.
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UK government labs struggling to cope with backlog of almost 200,000 tests
The coronavirus is spreading again across the UK but it’s getting harder to be tested – as government labs struggle to cope with a backlog of almost 200,000 tests.
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France and Spain see record number of coronavirus cases
Our Health and Social Care Editor Victoria Macdonald joined us from Westminster.
