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Covid Plan B axed - is it safe, could rules come back and do I have to go back to office?

Azeem Majeed, professor of public health and Imperial College London, answers your question ahead of Plan B measures - including face masks and working from home - being dropped next week

Daily Mirror

Covid news: Commuters head back to work as NHS staff absences fall in every region of England

Follow the latest updates and statistics

The Independent UK

France to ease restrictions; Austrian parliament approves mandatory vaccination – as it happened

French PM says from February work from home guidance will be changed and nightclubs reopen; Austria will have Europe’s first universal jabs mandate

The Guardian - UK

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Piers Corbyn charged after protest at Guy’s Hospital vaccination clinic

He was charged with causing a nuisance or disturbance on NHS premises without reasonable excuse.

The Independent UK

Sajid Javid’s axing of all Covid restrictions draws warnings from NHS

Health secretary plans to ‘get life completely back to normal’ in England with end of plan B and compulsory self-isolation

The Guardian - UK

This is how much sleep kids should be getting at every age from newborns to teenagers

Find out how much your child should be sleeping with this simple guide

Manchester Evening News

Plans to tackle NHS waiting lists in Wales ‘will be delayed until spring’

Eluned Morgan MS said it could be months before elective surgeries began again because of the ongoing pandemic.

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North East MP blasts 'reckless' mandatory vaccination rule for NHS staff

South Shields MP Emma Lewell-Buck warned the "reckless" rule could see an exodus of staff.

Chronicle Live

Covid plan B rules are scrapped — but NHS chief warns virus hasn’t ‘magically disappeared’

‘The government will regret sending the wrong signal for political expediency’, says nursing chief

The Independent UK

Suspected stroke patients left hours before being treated in hospitals

Only 46 per cent of patients were seen within four hours.

Daily Record

The only official Covid symptoms according to NHS, WHO, CDC, and ZOE

All the on-the-record symptoms from officials

Wales Online

Concern over ‘disgraceful’ nurse staffing levels planned for mini Nightingales

Exclusive: NHS chief says nightingale hospital plans are an ‘absolute disgrace’ with ‘minimal’ staffing levels planned

The Independent UK

Don’t let No 10 chaos distract us from damage to public services

Letters: The danger is that we won’t notice how institutions such as the NHS and BBC are being meddled with, writes Yvonne Williams

The Guardian - UK

NHS chiefs call for patience as GP and primary care hit by Covid impact

People are being asked to plan ahead if possible and have been warned that appointments may take longer to be carried out.

Daily Record

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Daily Mirror

Covid vaccine near me: Postcode checker shows your nearest site

Google is encouraging people to get their Covid vaccinations done in its latest Google Doogle. The postcode checker below will let you find your nearest site easily

The Conversation

COVID: why people who refuse to get vaccinated should not have lesser healthcare rights

As winter pressures have mounted on the NHS, both health staff and politicians have grown increasingly frustrated with the number of unvaccinated patients needing treatment for COVID. The risk of being hospitalised with COVID is substantially greater for those that haven’t had a vaccine. The latest data suggests that more…

Liverpool Echo

NHS under ‘considerable pressure’ as Wirral 'not out of the woods' on Covid-19

"It is important to remember that we are not out of the woods yet", the public health director said

The Independent UK

Dropping Plan B will not ease pressure on NHS, nurses warn

Nursing leader Pat Cullen said ministers should adopt a cautious approach.

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The Guardian - UK

Hostile review – documentary highlights nastiness of UK immigration policy

Sonita Gale’s film reveals how the ‘hostile environment’ declared in 2013 persecuted foreign nationals, a good number of whom were keeping the NHS going

Wales Online

Why some lateral flow tests have throat swabs and others don’t

The UKHSA said all lateral flow devices used by NHS Test and Trace have gone through “rigorous validation”

The Guardian - UK

UK Covid: end to England’s plan B measures next week ‘a milestone, not a finish line’, says Sajid Javid – as it happened

Health secretary confirms face mask mandate and working from home guidance will end in England

Bristol Post

Covid: Why some lateral flow tests have throat swabs and others don’t

The UKHSA said there is no indication that rapid tests used by NHS Test and Trace differ in their ability to detect the Omicron or Delta variants

Wales Online

Changes will give England's NHS patients ‘quicker access to new medicines’

Patient access to new treatments is set to be 'fairer'

The Independent UK

Changes will give NHS patients ‘quicker access to new medicines’

The body said that its proposals, which are expected to be approved by its board on Wednesday, will make patient access to new treatments ‘fairer’.

Wales Online

Patients ‘more likely to die’ if they endure long waits in A&E

The new study examined data from more than five million patients in England

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