Articles tagged with: Covid-19

10 Aug 2021 Coronavirus

New Covid isolation rules will continue to cause disruption when schools return

As schools will no longer have to enforce “bubbles” from September, it will make the identification of close contacts amongst pupils almost impossible.

06 Aug 2021 Coronavirus

Pakistan’s place on the red list is political, not scientific, and reeks of discrimination

This has been a political decision taken by the UK government to soften up the Indian government ahead of trade negotiations and signals a turn away from Pakistan – a country with such a rich shared history and culture.

02 Aug 2021 Coronavirus

Vaccine misinformation is a virus unto itself and it's costing lives

With vaccine disinformation creating confusion and distrust, healthcare workers that have put their head above the parapet are a target for abuse.

29 Jul 2021 Health

Platitudes are not enough – nurses hard work deserves to be recognised with a 12.5 per cent pay increase

Last year claps warmed hearts and boosted morale, but it now feels like the only recognition health care workers are getting.

23 Jul 2021 Coronavirus

UK Covid Infections Jumped To More Than 800,000 Last Week

New figures have shown coronavirus infections and hospitalisations from the illness continued to rise across the UK last week.

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20 Jul 2021 Coronavirus

The impact of COVID-19 on Rochdale’s Pakistani communities

16 Jul 2021 Coronavirus

Government must take responsibility for mask guidance, not pass the buck to businesses

New workplace safety guidance has been branded chaotic and confusing, replacing legal guidance with vague exhortations to do the right thing.

16 Jul 2021 Health

Government risks failing babies and parents struggling to cope during Covid

New parent Bethany told us that she found remote health visits “unhelpful”, and remote parent and baby classes difficult for her baby to engage with – leaving her with the “continuous heartache of not having support”.

13 Jul 2021 Foreign affairs

Government turned its back on the international community by cutting foreign aid – today MPs must reverse that

Our ambition to improve the mental health of people in low-income countries will be undermined by the government unless they reverse the decision to renege on their promise to spend 0.7% on international aid.

07 Jul 2021 Economy

Government must support the excluded so they can help us all rebuild from the pandemic

Calling for support for the excluded may sound like a broken record, but Britain is what will end up broken if the government doesn’t start to listen.

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06 Jul 2021 Coronavirus

Building a sustainable wildlife trade sector to avoid future pandemics

Since early reports linked the emergence of COVID-19 to the wild meat trade, the pandemic has thrown the wildlife trade into the global spotlight for its role in spreading zoonotic disease pathogens.

06 Jul 2021 Coronavirus

Let’s find our Team GB spirit to win the post-Covid race

Coming out of the pandemic, our challenge is to now re-discover a sense of solidarity and togetherness. Because the more we’re together, the faster we’ll recover.

Medical nutrition is a vital cog in the NHS response to Covid-19

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05 Jul 2021 Coronavirus

Medical nutrition is a vital cog in the NHS response to Covid-19

It is now over a year since the first cases of patients with COVID-19 were admitted to hospital in the UK, and following huge innovation and improvements in the treatments on offer, and the successful take up of vaccinations across all age groups, the link between cases and hospitalisation looks close to being broken.

02 Jul 2021 Education

Without a proper education recovery plan, we risk creating a generation of ghost children

We often talk about limiting the damage to the economy – but there can be nothing more important than acting to protect the lives and future prosperity of our young people.

01 Jul 2021 Coronavirus

The MP on the Vax front line

Fresh from his 10-week stint leading military vaccination teams, former defence minister and Royal Navy medic Andrew Murrison tells Alain Tolhurst he wants government to grasp the nettle of pandemic planning rather than continue to sacrifice liberty and livelihood with future lockdowns

01 Jul 2021 Economy

It’s time to end the scandalous low-pay, low-rights culture that grips the hospitality sector

It would be no surprise if many of the EU workers leaving the UK are doing so because of a toxic combination of post-Brexit insecurity, a volatile labour market and poor working terms and conditions.

01 Jul 2021 Coronavirus

Whitehall is failing to learn Covid’s biggest lesson

Human Learning Systems is the type of bold and radical vision that “building back better” demands, and shows just how far the government’s own plans miss the mark.

30 Jun 2021 Social affairs

We must grab this opportunity to provide better futures now and for generations to come

Embedding long-termism at the heart of UK politics is the right thing to do. I want to help the government Build Back Better through the Wellbeing of Future Generations Bill.

25 Jun 2021 Environment

Global Britain should be leading the effort to vaccinate all seafarers

As Covid-19 spread across the world last year, many countries and companies took an ‘out of sight, out of mind’ when it came to seafarers.

23 Jun 2021 Health

People with long-term health conditions need an ambitious rehabilitation strategy to ensure they aren’t left behind

As the government considers its options for the long-overdue reform of social care, we must ensure that people can live independently in the way they choose for as long as is possible.

23 Jun 2021 Economy

The beauty industry needs help now to support its future workforce

Closures of training schools during the pandemic and limited opportunities to gain workplace experience means that the number of newly qualified professionals entering jobs in the beauty industry is significantly lower than normal.

21 Jun 2021 Coronavirus

We must classify long Covid as an ‘occupational disease’ to protect frontline workers

Care for sufferers of long Covid shouldn’t amount to a postcode lottery, and the government needs to commit to funding a far more comprehensive long Covid care system.

08 Jun 2021 Communities

Government must step in to prevent a Covid induced mass homelessness crisis

The enormous amount of prospective homeless people and families dwarfs any other emergency that homeless advocates like me have ever seen before. Government must reinstate the eviction ban.

03 Jun 2021 Coronavirus

UK Passes 5,000 Daily Covid Cases For First Time Since March As Delta Variant Becomes Dominant Strain

The UK has recorded more than 5,000 new cases of Covid-19 in a single day for the first time since shortly before restrictions were relaxed in late March.