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Government knew in 2016 that major disease outbreak would overwhelm health system, officials sayMinisters knew in 2016 that “even a moderate pandemic would overrun the system” and the government’s emergency response function would be “very rapidly over…
Major King’s Fund report finds Britons more likely to die of biggest killer diseases than in many other richer countriesNHS’s mounting failures and political neglect laid bare in sobering studyBritons die sooner from cancer and heart disease than peopl…
NHS pilot scheme to be rolled out nationwide in drive to save lives by detecting and treating cancer earlierEveryone who has ever smoked in England is to be offered lung screening in middle age under plans to detect and treat cancer earlier.Lung cancer…
EU policy on pharmaceuticals for human use dates back to 1965 (Council Directive 65/65/EEC). The last major revision took place in 2004 (adoption of Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 and revision of Directive 2001/83/EEC, commonly referred to as the ‘EU general pharmaceutical legislation’).
Oliver Letwin, who led emergency planning during coalition, says churn of ministers and officials is ‘disaster for country’Britain’s whole system of critical national infrastructure remains “wildly under-resilient,” the Covid-19 inquiry has been told b…
Inquiry launched by Environment Agency into huge pile of medical aprons found in Calmore, HampshireThe “dumping” of hundreds of thousands of pieces of unused personal protective equipment near a nature reserve on the edge of the New Forest has mystifie…
New Partygate video shows Tory officials at party at height of pandemic. We look at who was there A new Partygate video that shows Conservative officials dancing, joking and drinking during lockdown has forced thousands of people across the UK to reliv…
Group calls for police to reopen investigation, and for Shaun Bailey and Ben Mallet to lose honoursA group representing the families of people who died of Covid-19 has expressed its disgust at video purporting to show revellers at the Conservative part…
But levelling up secretary insists Shaun Bailey and Ben Mallet should keep their honoursMichael Gove has apologised for a new Partygate video that shows Conservative officials dancing and laughing as they broke Covid lockdown rules, deeming their actio…
Government focused on no-deal preparation and did not foresee need for PPE, contact tracing or possible lockdownsUK politics live – latest updatesThe UK was unprepared for the Covid pandemic because the government was distracted by plans in anticipatio…