Search results for ‘Department of Health’
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FactCheck: Conservatives keep repeating dodgy NHS election claims
£34bn for the NHS and 40 new hospitals? There’s more to these claims than meets the eye.
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FactCheck: how does government decide which areas of England go into which Tiers?
Let’s take a look at what we know.
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FactCheck: government fails to follow own transparency guidelines with over 200 PPE contracts
Ministers were told in March that they should publish contract details within 30 days of awarding them.
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FactCheck: five key Covid questions the government won’t answer
There are important questions about the coronavirus strategy that government departments simply won’t answer in full.
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FactCheck: we shouldn’t rely on official cases per capita to compare local outbreaks
There are no easy answers.
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FactCheck: has government shifted goalposts on UK PPE production?
Boris Johnson says UK manufacturers are due to meet 70 per cent of demand in December.
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FactCheck: new figures contradict ministers on Covid test journeys
New figures have been released today showing that the average journey to a coronavirus testing centre hasn’t got shorter at all.
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FactCheck: government won’t show evidence for number of people tested daily
No official body publishes figures on the number of people who are tested each day.
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FactCheck: ministers not telling the whole story on Covid test journeys
What kind of distances are people being asked to drive in the worst cases?
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‘The clearly anticipated surge that would happen as schools came back… was not planned for over the summer’: Prof Alan McNally
The microbiologist Prof Alan McNally, who helped set up the Lighthouse diagnostic labs network to support the fight against Covid, joined us from Birmingham.
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FactCheck: what’s going on with Covid testing?
Official figures show a recent fall in the number of people being tested each day in England.
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FactCheck: what’s the reason for 14-day travel quarantine?
There’s evidence that shorter isolation periods combined with testing could be just as effective as the current regime.
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US blocks imports of gloves by Top Glove after Channel 4 News investigation found workers were being exploited
Share prices have crashed in Malaysia’s Top Glove company – which makes PPE for a number of countries including the UK.
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FactCheck: Johnson not telling the whole story on Leicester testing
He said the government set up four new test sites ‘shortly’ after 8 June. But Leicester Council say the first new unit didn’t open until 10 days’ later.
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‘Not good enough for government to say everything that went into pandemic stockpile in 2009 was safe’ – Labour’s Rachel Reeves
We were joined by Rachel Reeves, shadow minister for the cabinet office who has been dealing with the PPE issue for the Labour Party.