NHS staff are being forced to stay off work because of coronavirus testing shortages, hospital bosses have warned.
Workers are having to self-isolate rather than work because tests are not available for either them or their family members, taking valuable staff away from the frontline, NHS Providers has warned.
Meanwhile, John Apter, national chairman of the National Police Federation of England and Wales, has called for more guidance over enforcement of the rule of six amid claims people were being asked to “snitch on their neighbours”.
