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Private doctors have been slammed for performing non-urgent operations while the NHS is under 'unthinkable pressure' caused by soaring Covid cases.  Medics performing elective operations privately should be 'shamed' out of it amid concerns they are 'once again taking the p*** and walking off with the money', London's top NHS medics believe. All of London's acute hospital trusts have been told to 'think very carefully' about whether it is 'appropriate' to perform elective surgeries, when the same operations have been pushed back by the NHS. A letter - signed by top medics and several of Londo...

THousands of cancer patients have been forced to wait more than two months for their first round of treatment, as the number of non-Covid patients in Britain's hospitals fell by 10,000.

London: Britain has now given around 2 million people a COVID-19 vaccination, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Sunday ahead of a ramp-up in the roll-out of the shots on Monday. "Over the last week we've vaccinated more people than in the entirety of December, so we're accelerating the roll-out," he told BBC TV. Asked how many people had been vaccinated, Hancock said: "It's around the 2 million mark, but we're going to publish the exact figures tomorrow and then henceforth on a daily basis." Britain is aiming to vaccinate around 14 million people by the middle of February, comprising the ...

Print AP FILE - In this Tuesday Dec. 8, 2020 file photo, 90 year old Margaret Keenan, the first patient in the UK to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, administered by nurse May Parsons at University Hospital, Coventry, England. Britain races to vaccinate more than 15 million people by mid-February, and in an effort to ensure vaccines get to the right places at the right times, along with the syringes, alcohol swabs and protective equipment needed to administer them, the government has called in the army. (Jacob King/Pool via AP, File) ...

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases recorded in the United Kingdom has now surpassed three million, as the human cost of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to mount amid growing fears about the fast-spreading new variants of the virus. UK authorities on Saturday announced another 59,937 new infections and 1,035 related fatalities, taking the total death toll to 80,868 – one of the highest in Europe, alongside Italy. Prime Minister Boris Johnson imposed a third stay-at-home order at the start of the week as alarm deepens that hospitals could be overwhelmed, while London Mayor Sadiq Khan o...