A plane carrying 20 tonnes of World Health Organisation health supplies has landed in Beirut, Lebanon, to support the treatment of patients injured by the massive blast that occurred in the city on 4 August 2020.
If a fraction of the government’s Covid-19 economic response been invested in health and care before the pandemic, there could have been a considerably better outcome, says the IPPR.
An "appalling error" was committed when 25,000 people were discharged from hospitals into care homes without ensuring all were first tested for COVID-19, says the Public Accounts Committee.
Trusts are struggling to complete very high-risk repairs where there is a danger of catastrophic failure of care or serious injury, says a new report from the Royal College of Psychiatrists.