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News from the College
COVID-19: UK Government Information
COVID-19: Scottish Government Information
- Parliament asked to back emergency Coronavirus Bill – gov.scot
- Temporary COVID-19 medical facility – gov.scot
Workforce
- Coronavirus: 20,000 former NHS staff return to fight virus, PM says – BBC News
- NHS staff ‘gagged’ over coronavirus shortages – The Guardian
- Nursery closures leaving UK key workers without childcare – The Guardian
- Nearly 3,000 overseas NHS staff have work visas automatically extended to help fight pandemic – HeraldScotland
- Coronavirus: Army of 1,200 retired doctors ready to help in Scottish hospitals – Press and Journal
Health & NHS
- Coronavirus: A&E visits plunge as people heed virus advice – BBC News
- Coronavirus threatens the safety net I’ve built around my at-risk parents – The Guardian
- NHS urged to turn hotels into birth centres during crisis – The Guardian
- Coronavirus: Are loss of smell and taste key symptoms? – BBC News
- Welsh surgery apologises over ‘do not resuscitate’ instruction – The Guardian
- 13-year-old boy with Covid-19 dies as UK sees biggest day-on-day rise in deaths – ITV News
- Coronavirus: The month that changed life as we know it – BBC News
- Early home abortions approved in Scotland during coronavirus outbreak – The Courier
- Coronavirus: 13-year-old boy dies, says London hospital trust – BBC News
- Coronavirus: UK must go ‘further, faster’ to increase testing capacity – BBC News
- England: more than third of hospital Covid-19 deaths in London – The Guardian
- Nightingale hospital in London to treat less critical Covid-19 cases – The Guardian
- ‘We drew up the plan over a brew’ – inside operation Nightingale – The Guardian
Wellbeing
- Coronavirus: Tenth of medical staff are thought to have gone sick – The Times
- Coronavirus: One in four NHS doctors off sick or in isolation, says leading medic – The Independent
- Coronavirus: Hospitals urged to use lab space to test NHS staff – BBC News
- Coronavirus: NHS staff urged to be patient over protective equipment – inews
- Nurses refusing to treat critical coronavirus patients because of lack of protective equipment, frontline NHS staff warn – Daily Telegraph
Health & Politics
- MPs call on UK Govt to provide compensation to families of NHS ‘heroes’ who die from coronavirus – HeraldScotland
- Coronavirus: Matt Hancock ‘on mend’ after ‘mild’ symptoms – BBC News
International
Public Health
- Coronavirus in Scotland: ‘early’ lockdown means death rate will be lower than rest of UK – HeraldScotland
- Coronavirus: Lockdown ‘must become the social norm’ – BBC News
Health and Science/Technology
- Coronavirus vaccine: when will it be ready? – The Guardian
- Coronavirus: Spike in depression and anxiety following shut down, research shows – The Independent
- First batch of new NHS ventilators to be built this weekend – The Guardian
Opinion & Letters