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Red tape blamed for only 5,000 of the 40,000 retired NHS workers who volunteered to return to fight Covid being given jobs GP Claire Barker said she did not have the required 21 forms to work despite owning her practice for 30 years Dr Brian Cooper, 73, one of 47,000 retired medics to sign up to the NHS's call for volunteers in April They were supposed to be deployed to hospitals to get normal care up and running during Covid crisis But Dr Cooper claims he was left in lurch for seven months then asked to do contact tracing work 

Advertisement Britain could vaccinate 24million people against coronavirus by Easter after the game-changing Oxford University/ AstraZeneca jab was approved this morning and its makers promised to deliver 2million doses a week. In a massive boost to ending the pandemic within months, the UK medical regulator green-lit the vaccine, which is cheap, easy to transport to care homes and protects 70 per cent of people after just 21 days. Regulators are now recommending the jab is given in two doses three months apart, rather than over a four-week period, allowing millions more to be immunised over...

Published: 6:00 AM December 30, 2020    Dr Dan Poulter warned that it could be many months before life returns to normal, even with a vaccine. - Credit: Sarah Lucy Brown Pre-Covid "normal" life is unlikely to return until the late summer or early autumn according to Suffolk MP and hospital doctor Dan Poulter. And the current Tier Four restrictions may not be eased until Easter - or March at the earliest - unless there is a rapid fall in infections and the number of people being admitted to hospital. The sobering assessment from Dr Poulter - who was on the front line in a London hospital dur...

The London stock market slipped this afternoon as news of the Covid-19 vaccine from Oxford University and AstraZeneca gaining approval was overshadowed by millions more people being plunged into the toughest Tier Four lockdown rules. The FTSE 100 closed down by 0.71 per cent or 47 points at 6,556 today despite Boris Johnson's post-Brexit EU trade deal clearing the House of Commons at about 3pm, as the Government seeks to rush approval through Parliament in a single day. London stocks initially rose following news of the jab, which has been described as a 'game changer', being given the green ...

The UK is "back in the eye of the storm" following the discovery of the new more transmissible strain of the coronavirus which has resulted in a resurgence of new cases, as well record breaking hospitalisations, the National Health ...