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Keira Bell outside the Royal Courts of Justice in central London. The 23-year-old, who began taking puberty blockers when she was 16 before detransitioning , brought legal action against the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, which runs the UK s only gender identity development service for children
NHS child gender clinic that faced court over use of puberty-blockers is rated inadequate by CQC
An NHS trust which faced court for giving children puberty-blocking drugs has been rated inadequate by the UK s health regulator, after inspectors found vulnerable young people were waiting too long for treatment .
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust was told by the Care Quality Commission it needed to significantly improve its services and waiting times, after it found more than 4,600 young people on the waiting list - with some waiting more than two years for their first appointment.
The chief medical officer was verbally abused by a passerby in the street. Credit: PA
England’s chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty said the young lad who verbally abused him in the street will hopefully become a model citizen in due course .
Prof Chris Whitty was abused in the street by a TikTok user who accused the doctor of lying about Covid-19 cases.
When asked about the incident at the government briefing on Wednesday, Prof Whitty said he didn’t think anything of being catcalled by a young man while walking near Westminster. The odd young lad, showing off, occasionally happens, he told a Downing Street briefing.
Chris Whitty verbally abused in street and called a ‘liar’ as MP condemns ‘appalling’ footage April Roach
England’s chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty was called a “liar” as he was subjected to verbal abuse in the street in central London.
Footage emerged on social media showing a young man taunting Professor Whitty as he appeared to wait for a lunch order from a street stall.
The footage is believed to have been taken at Westminster’s Strutton Ground Market and has been uploaded to TikTok.
In the video, the young man repeatedly calls Professor Whitty a liar, and adds: “You lie about the Covid-19 cases… stop lying to the TV, man”.
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In the first systematic large-scale evaluation of the UK National Early Warning Risk Score (NEWS) 2 as a scoring system for predicting severe COVID-19 outcomes in patients, researchers at King s College London have found poor-to-moderate accuracy for identifying patients at risk of being transferred to intensive care units (ICUs) or dying after 14 days of hospitalisation. Accuracy of predictions in short term (three days) showed moderate success.
For people who are hospitalised with severe COVID-19, it is vital to quickly identify which patients may deteriorate and require transfer to an intensive care unit (ICU) for organ support or may die. NEWS2 is an early warning score that combines physiological parameters such as respiration rate, oxygen saturation, blood pressure and temperature. NEWS2 is currently used almost universally in UK NHS Trusts to identify which patients are at risk of deteriorating early.
NHS announces highest daily death toll in London since start of the pandemic
One London hospital trust announced a worrying 33 deaths
The death toll in London hospitals has been growing
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Another 239 deaths from coronavirus have been announced in London hospitals making it the single worst figure announced in a day since the pandemic began.