NHS leaders are calling on all hospital trusts and other healthcare providers to ensure additional information and guidance around social distancing, hand hygiene and...
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NHS England and NHS Improvement welcome publication of updated risk assessment guidance
NHS England and NHS Improvement has today welcomed the publication of updated risk assessment guidance which provides practical measures to advance the way risk...
Press release: Public advised to cover faces in enclosed spaces
The public is advised to consider wearing face coverings in enclosed public spaces such as shops, trains and buses to help reduce the spread...
NHS Nightingale London discharges first patients
Staff at the NHS Nightingale hospital in London have successfully treated and discharged their first coronavirus patients. A father of one, in his fifties,...
Detailed guide: Number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases and risk in the UK
The latest number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases and risk level in the UK...
Thousands of former NHS staff are back on the front line in the NHS fight against coronavirus
Almost 5,000 former staff are now back on the NHS front line after coming out of retirement to support the coronavirus effort. The returning...
Press release: NHS asks people to share their coronavirus symptoms to help others
A new Coronavirus Status Checker will help the NHS coordinate its response and build up additional data on the COVID-19 outbreak...
NHS to build more Nightingale hospitals, as London set for opening
New NHS Nightingale hospitals will be built in Bristol and Harrogate to provide hundreds of extra beds if local services need them during the...
Guidance: Coronavirus (COVID-19): ventilator supply specification
Specification of rapidly manufactured ventilator systems needed as part of the response to coronavirus (COVID-19).
NHS to ramp up coronavirus testing labs
The NHS with Public Health England (PHE) is undertaking a significant expansion of coronavirus testing, with enhanced labs helping the health service carry out...
NHS boss demands maximum punishment for every violent offence against paramedics
Simon Stevens told gathering of ambulance chiefs at ALF 2018 that he wanted to see the authorities take the toughest possible action against members...
Ambulance services begin new response times
Four of England's ambulance services have begun the roll out of new response times...
