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News from the College
- Ethical guidance published for frontline staff dealing with COVID-19 pandemic – News Blog
- COVID-19: Daily UK Media Update, 1st April 2020 – News Blog
COVID-19: UK Government Information
COVID-19: Scottish Government Information
Workforce
- Coronavirus: Meet the ex-NHS staff who are returning to work – BBC News
- Coronavirus: Volunteers help protect NHS workers – BBC News
- Medical staff turned back at coronavirus test drive-throughs – The Times
- Coronavirus: At-risk NHS workers told to put their health first as volunteer doctor dies – The Independent
Health & NHS
- Doctors told not to prioritise coronavirus over patients with other serious conditions – The Times
- Coronavirus: NHS 111 has 1.7 million queries in 15 days – BBC News
- Recovering from coronavirus: Three harrowing stories of surviving Covid-19 – BBC News
- Coronavirus health myths – BBC News
- Scots air ambulance crews to use sealed pods to airlift coronavirus patients to hospital – Daily Record
- Scots mum beats coronavirus after mistaking symptoms for food poisoning – Daily Record
- London hospital almost runs out of oxygen for coronavirus patients – The Guardian
Health & Politics
- Coronavirus: Boris Johnson vows more virus tests as UK deaths exceed 2,000 – BBC News
- Ministers urged to step up Covid-19 testing as boy, 13, joins soaring death toll – ITV News
- Coronavirus: Testing will ‘unlock puzzle’, PM says – BBC News
- Coronavirus: Unions declare PPE shortage is ‘crisis within a crisis’ despite Downing Street insistence that vital supplies are being delivered – inews
Public Health
Opinion & Letters