Ministers are being told to get a grip on coronavirus testing as the health secretary closes a loophole that left thousands of its unused and a vast NHS swabbing station stood deserted. Matt Hancock tonight intervened to end the embarrassing situation in which the number of tests carried out is short of capacity. A source … Read more
Soldiers descended upon London’s ExCel centre today to help complete the field hospital’s transformation into the capital’s emergency coronavirus hospital. Officers in uniform took to the international convention centre in Newham, East London, to assist in the final touches of the new NHS Nightingale hospital as the UK tries to control the spread of the … Read more
Help desk staff are being recruited for new Nightingale hospital on £37,500 a year – £13,500 MORE than average wage for British nurses EXCLUSIVE: Job adverts are for Nightingale Hospital at ExCeL Centre in London Help desk staff work 12-hour shifts, four days on and four days off for £37.5k NHS nurses’ starting salary is … Read more
Shopping centre owner Intu in crisis talks with banks and the government as pandemic slashes rents By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 26 March 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 26 March 2020 Intu is holding crisis talks with banks and the Government after the coronavirus crisis wiped out two thirds of … Read more
A worker has shared sobering footage from inside London’s ExCel exhibition centre where work started today to turn it into a 4,000-bed temporary hospital to treat coronavirus patients. Military planners are working with Health Service officials to create the new hospital from scratch to accommodate rising numbers of patients. The exhibition centre in East London will … Read more
Hargreaves Lansdown scales back its help centre hours to deal with surge in enquiries By Money Mail Reporter For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 24 March 2020 | Updated: 23:40 GMT, 24 March 2020 Hargreaves Lansdown says it is concentrating staff between 8am and 5pm on weekdays to keep delays to a minimum Investment … Read more
Shopping centre owners and other property firms warn they face collapse without support to replace lost rental income By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 01:21 GMT, 25 March 2020 | Updated: 01:21 GMT, 25 March 2020 Shopping centre owners and other property firms have warned ministers that they face collapse without support to … Read more
As a clinician for the NHS 111 medical helpline, I have had to talk a mother through an unplanned home birth, diagnose a heart attack and decide whether to send the only available ambulance to a baby with breathing difficulties or a man with chest pain – while fending off abusive callers, some of whom … Read more
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have become the first royals to visit coronavirus frontline health workers, as they met staff at a London NHS 111 call centre. As they toured the call centre in Croydon, south-west London, on Thursday, the couple heard how the number of calls from the public had quadrupled since the … Read more
An Italian town at the centre of the coronavirus pandemic is holding burials every half an hour after 146 people died there in a week. The mortuary at the local hospital in Bergamo, Lombardy, is full, with bodies kept in churches while awaiting burial. It comes as Begona Gomez, the wife of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro … Read more