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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People in poorer parts of UK twice as likely to die from coronavirus
A stark reminder of inequality today with the release of new figures that show the poorest are more likely to die from Covid-19.
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Concern over reduction in emergency hospital visits for heart attacks and strokes
If you need urgent medical care, seek help. That is the message from the government tonight.
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Care home virus deaths rising sharply
As the death toll in hospitals appears to be declining, figures today reveal a new frontline – care homes, where deaths are rising sharply amid warnings that the peak of the outbreak has not yet been reached.
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Medical alert issued over illness in children who may have had Covid-19
An urgent medical alert has been sent to doctors regarding an apparent rise in the number of cases of children admitted to intensive care
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Government tests website closes hours after opening due to ‘significant demand’
The new website enabling millions of key workers in England to access virus tests closed within hours after it experienced what the government said was ‘significant demand’.
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Doctors demand laws on morphine are relaxed – for end of life care
How do we ensure that those at the end of their lives don’t suffer unnecessarily during this crisis?
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Why is there not enough protective equipment for NHS and care home staff?
The Health Secretary faced more questions today on why PPE supplies are not getting through and companies offering support are not getting responses.
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Hospitals hit by shortage of protective equipment and crucial drugs
While the shortage of PPE in hospitals is well known, Intensive Care Units around the country are also running short of crucial drugs.
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Inside a coronavirus recovery ward amid warning of 40,000 UK deaths
There could be many more waves of this and many more deaths, a leading health expert has warned – criticising the government for being too slow to take action when this crisis first began.
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Inside an ICU during coronavirus: how doctors and nurses are coping
Hospitals are still crowded with the desperately ill. People are dying in their hundreds every day.
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Advisors warn of care home epidemic – but only hospital deaths are currently reflected in government figures
Channel 4 News has learned that the scientific advisers to the Government on Covid-19 have warned ministers that there are now three separate epidemics across the country – in hospitals, care homes and the general population.
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Dominic Raab admits coronavirus numbers are ‘bleak’ – as death toll reaches 7,978
They are “bleak numbers”, the Foreign Secretary admitted, as 7,978 people in the UK have been listed as dying in hospital with Covid-19 so far.
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New data suggests coronavirus deaths could be higher
Every day we’ve been given the official figures for the number of people who’ve died after testing positive for coronavirus from the Department of Health.
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Coronavirus: why do some people get seriously ill – but not others?
What happens to patients with coronavirus who end up in hospital – and those like the prime minister who need critical care?
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Latest on Boris Johnson’s condition
Our health and social care correspondent Victoria Macdonald is at St Thomas’ Hospital, where the Prime Minister is being treated.
