FREE Live webinar – Tuesday 14th April 2020 6pm (BST)
Join us for our College’s second COVID-19 webinar, at which you will hear from experts in their fields on the decision making process in relation to when to escalate respiratory patients, when ITU should be called and optimal palliation during COVID-19. We expect demand for this event to be high, so sign up to attend now on our website at
News from the College
- Dame Denise Coia – News Blog
- Latest coronavirus update for doctors and healthcare professionals – Friday 10th April 2020 – News Blog
COVID-19: UK Government Information
COVID-19: Scottish Government Information
Workforce
Health & NHS
- Why the UK could be Europe’s biggest coronavirus casualty – inews
- Coronavirus: Review of lockdown measures ‘to take place later this week’ – HeraldScotland
- Coronavirus: Gown supply ‘critically low’ in some hospitals – BBC News
- Why have the UK and Germany taken different approaches to Covid-19 testing? – The Guardian
- UK coronavirus death toll rises to more than 11,000 as further 717 patients die after testing positive – ITV News
- ‘Every person can be the hero of this time’ – BBC News
- Coronavirus: ‘Difficult’ cancer care decisions taken – BBC News
- Volunteers stitch together to make scrubs for NHS – The Guardian
- New coronavirus helpline set up for vulnerable Scots – BBC News
- Sir Kenny Dalglish thanks NHS after leaving hospital following positive test for coronavirus – ITV News
Health and Science/Technology
Other Health Stories
- MS drug offers hope of easier walking – The Times
- Medical guidelines are ‘leading to an overdiagnosis of cow’s milk allergy in infants’ – inews
Opinion & Letters