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News from the College
- College calls for action to support wellbeing of NHS workers – News Blog
- David Wylie appointed as College’s first Director of Non-Clinical Education – News Blog
COVID-19: UK Government Information
- Further expansion of access to coronavirus testing helps protect the most vulnerable – GOV.UK
- Perth COVID-19 regional testing centre to open for key workers – GOV.UK
- New guarantee on death in service benefits for frontline health and care staff during pandemic – GOV.UK
COVID-19: Scottish Government Information
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): clinical guidelines for cancer treatment – gov.scot
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): interim governance framework for cancer medicines in adults – gov.scot
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): public use of face coverings – gov.scot
- Primary care opening hours – gov.scot
- Rapid coronavirus research – gov.scot
Workforce
Coronavirus: Somerset NHS trust prioritises BAME staff for tests – BBC News
Coronavirus: Hospital cleaner dies after contracting Covid-19 – BBC News
Health & NHS
- Coronavirus: What is the hidden health cost? – BBC News
- Coronavirus: Thousands of cancer ops at ‘Covid-free’ hubs – BBC News
- Coronavirus in Scotland: Sturgeon under pressure over elective and cancer care as Covid ICU admissions fall to new low – HeraldScotland\
- Coronavirus: All Scottish hospital patients over 70 to be tested – BBC News
- Care home coronavirus deaths set to overtake hospitals – The Times
- Risk of cancer falls despite increase in diagnoses – The Times
- Coronavirus Scotland: Attendance at A&E is down by half but starting to rise – The Times
- Coronavirus: Millions more to be eligible for testing – BBC News
- Soldiers drafted in to help test PPE for hospital nurses – STV News
- Coronavirus: Non-home workers and over-65s without symptoms now eligible for COVID-19 tests – Sky News
- Britain to stockpile non-medical face masks for the public after Nicola Sturgeon advises using scarves – Telegraph
- As the death toll of BAME doctors rises, I’m filled with anxiety every time my husband goes to work | inews
- Matt Hancock urged to publish secret review of pandemic plans | Politics | The Guardian
- Executive pay capped at private hospitals during NHS takeover | Business | The Guardian
- Why UK’s death toll could soon be the worst in Europe – in charts – Telegraph
- On the frontline: NHS 24’s “crucial” role in fighting COVID-19 – Holyrood
- Coronavirus: London’s NHS Nightingale ‘treated 51 patients’ – BBC News
- NHS forced to cancel 2 million operations because of coronavirus – The Times
- Coronavirus in Scotland: Councils warned not to cut social care packages – HeraldScotland
- Coronavirus: Medical cannabis access eased amid lockdown – BBC News
- Extra 18,000 cancer patients in England could die in next year – study – The Guardian
- Coronavirus test to be offered to over-65s with symptoms – The Guardian
Wellbeing
Health & Politics
- Coronavirus: Hancock shoots down Scottish govt’s face-covering plan – Sky News
- Coronavirus: Matt Hancock calls for ‘UK-wide approach’ after Scottish Government publishes lockdown exit plan – Press and Journal
- Coronavirus: NHS doctor’s son asks Matt Hancock for public apology – BBC News
International
- Coronavirus updates: US passes 1 million mark for infections – BBC News
- Coronavirus: 98-year-old doctor working through the lockdown – BBC News
Health and Science/Technology