Britons turn to ice cream and canned cocktails in face of amber heat warnings
Tesco predicts it will break its record for the amount of ice creams and lollies it has sold in a single week.
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Tesco predicts it will break its record for the amount of ice creams and lollies it has sold in a single week.
Brits are pulling out all the stops to stay cool as the UK Health Security Agency issued a Level Four heat-health alert today covering the whole of England for both days.
Elaine Harrad rang the Heron Medical Centre in Herne Bay, Kent, on behalf of her mother, Barbara Shonk, 84, who wanted to get an appointment as she was concerned about a suspected eye infection.
GPs are warning of growing chaos after NHS chiefs urged millions of healthy middle-aged people to demand flu jabs in the middle of the Covid crisis. They said switchboards have collapsed under the weight of calls from those who received a letter from health chiefs telling them to come forward now even though flu levels are very low. The latest figures for England suggest that more than 13 million people – including around 1.7 million healthy people aged 50 to 64 – have received the flu jab this winter. Meanwhile, just 2.5 million people have received a Covid jab against targets for 1...
Heron Medical Practice in Herne Bay bombarded with 4,000 calls in one day Published: 06:00, 14 January 2021 A medical practice was bombarded with almost 4,000 calls in one day from patients trying to secure coronavirus and flu jabs, bosses have revealed. Receptionists from Heron Medical Practice in Herne Bay were inundated with more than five inquiries a minute last Friday. Heron Medical Practice's business manager Helen Sutton Its business manager Helen Sutton fears many residents gave up trying to speak to their doctors on the day. She said: âThere were so many trying to get through at...