Search results for ‘Department of Health’
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Hospital security staff ‘abused’ vulnerable patients
Hospital security guards have been accused of abusing vulnerable patients after CCTV footage exclusively obtained by Channel 4 News shows an elderly man locked in a room for 11 hours without treatment, food or water.
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The reality of British children in poverty: no beds to sleep in or clean clothes to wear
Exclusive. Britain’s leading children’s charities are warning that cuts to children’s services, which are having the greatest impact on the poorest, most vulnerable families, risk leaving a “damaging legacy”.
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PM backs Matt Hancock after he apologises for breaking Covid social distancing rules
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has apologised after photographs published in the Sun newspaper showed him kissing his adviser in his office, a clear breach of Covid rules at the time.
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Cyril Ramaphosa: ‘Action needed now on vaccines for Africa’
South Africa’s president has said vaccines are “desperately needed now” as the country faces a third wave of coronavirus. In an exclusive interview with Channel 4 News, President Cyril Ramaphosa, the only African head of state at the G7 summit in Cornwall, said “much more” was needed from G7 leaders to tackle coronavirus. Mr Ramaphosa…
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Anger as UK helps poorer countries fight Covid – by slashing other aid
Labour and Conservative MPs have criticised the government for including help for poorer countries battling Covid in its overseas aid budget – a decision that could lead to even deeper cuts in other areas than already expected.
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FactCheck: government publishes another 81 PPE contracts after legal deadline
A further 81 PPE contracts have come to light that breached the government’s own procurement rules.
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FactCheck: how effective are masks at stopping Covid-19 spread?
The evidence isn’t clear-cut.
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FactCheck: ministers’ questionable claims about when they knew of symptom-free Covid spread
There was evidence for asymptomatic transmission very early in the pandemic.
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JCVI’S Prof Anthony Harnden says ‘reasonably confident’ UK govt will meet vaccine target
Professor Anthony Harnden is deputy chair of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which advises UK health departments on immunisation.
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FactCheck: Hancock suggests ‘no evidence’ UK variant is more severe
There are important questions still unanswered.
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FactCheck: minister’s claims about symptom-free spread and testing
Helen Whately claimed we ‘didn’t know’ in March and April that people without symptoms could be infectious.
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FactCheck: will the “poorest and neediest” get the coronavirus vaccine in time?
The government has signed up to an international agreement designed to make sure all countries get equal access to coronavirus vaccines at the same time. But it has also said it wants British people to get the new Oxford vaccine first.
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‘No country is going to be safe until every country is safe’ – WHO’s director of immunisation
We’re joined by Professor Katherine O’Brien, who heads up the World Health Organisation’s department for immunisation, vaccines and biologicals.
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FactCheck: ministers’ confusing free school meals defence
The government is facing pressure to change course – including from some Conservative MPs.
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FactCheck: confusion over Covid-19 vaccine plans
There have been mixed messages recently about how a Covid-19 vaccination programme would be handled.