‘Don’t just pick on footballers’: Gary Lineker insists he has spoken to players ‘desperate’ to help contribute to coronavirus crisis amid criticism Top-flight footballers are facing criticism over their lack of action amid the crisis Health secretary Matt Hancock took a dig at players over not taking pay cuts Former striker Gary Lineker has hit … Read more
Cancer survival rates will fall if coronavirus crisis causes delays to diagnosis and treatment in coming months with tumours becoming ‘inoperable’, warns leading expert Professor Charles Swanton, Cancer Research UK chief clinician, issued warning Suggestion that surgeries, screenings and diagnoses are being delayed In some cancers there is a 90% survival rate if the disease … Read more
Ministers are said to be furious at ‘megalomaniac’ NHS bosses and Public Health England’s failure to get to grips with testing and protective equipment shortages – as a new survey shows their staff have no faith in their leaders. There have been increasing concerns about the level of diagnostic testing for the deadly pandemic, with … Read more
A leading medic has warned ‘fifty doctors in Britain will die’ battling the coronavirus pandemic if frontline staff are not properly equipped with protective gear. Rinesh Parmar, chairman of the Doctors’ Association, claims medics are buying their own personal protective equipment (PPE) in a bid to shield themselves from the deadly virus. He also says … Read more
Former England captain Wayne Rooney has hit out at Matt Hancock after the health secretary said Premier League stars should take a pay cut amid the coronavirus crisis. There have been calls for players to give up a chunk of their wages in recent days, with the Premier League also suggesting that they should take … Read more
China owes us £351 billion: Britain should pursue Beijing through international courts for coronavirus compensation, major study claims as 15 top top Tories urge ‘reset’ in UK relations with country 15 senior Tories wrote to Boris to demand a ‘rethink’ in relations with Beijing The world’s leading economies have been hit by a £3.2 trillion … Read more
NHS ‘is being charged £2m-£3m a month’ to use the ExCel centre as the Nightingale Hospital to treat coronavirus patients by its Abu Dhabi-based owners Excel Centre, London, is owned by Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company NHS England had reportedly been ‘desperate’ to secure a space for patients Former Conservative defence secretary Lord King of … Read more
Tory MPs lash out at ‘sanctimonious’ Jeremy Hunt who ‘left us unprepared’ for the coronavirus pandemic as tensions over the Government’s ‘too slow’ testing regime boil over Tory MP brand Jeremy Hunt ‘sanctimonious’ after his appeals for more testing Mr Hunt condemned by senior Minister as ‘the person who left us unprepared’ He was Health … Read more
A cure for the test kit fiasco? A junior doctor is assembling £10 coronavirus testing kits on his kitchen table to help medics return to the NHS front line Dr Mike Gough has come up with the idea to help health staff in self-isolation He and his brother Chris have crowfunded to buy 1,000 testing … Read more
Children are dying from non-coronavirus illnesses as parents are being wrongly warned to keep them out of hospital during the coronavirus pandemic, top paediatrician claims Mothers and fathers are delaying taking their children to hospital Professor Russell Viner said: ‘If your child is very unwell, we want to see them’ NHS England said parents should come … Read more