COVID-19: UK Government Information
COVID-19: Scottish Government Information
Workforce
- Coronavirus doctor’s diary: Take care when you clap for carers – BBC News
- Non-NHS healthcare staff had less access to Covid-19 tests – The Guardian
- Coronavirus: Doctors ‘buy their own PPE or rely on donations’ – BBC News
- Coronavirus: Paramedic dies after contracting Covid-19 – BBC News
Health & NHS
- Coronavirus lockdown success: Scotland’s intensive care total is below 100 – The Times
- Covid-19 patients in intensive care developing kidney failure – inews
- Scotland risks going back ‘entire generation’ says senior dentist – The Scotsman
- ‘Happy hypoxia’: unusual coronavirus effect baffles doctors – The Guardian
- England’s excess death rate among highest in Europe – The Independent
- The NHS is not too busy to save your life if you have a heart attack – even in a pandemic – inews
- Self-isolating parents face weeks apart from vulnerable newborns – The Guardian
- Covid-19 has put cancer patients and research at huge risk – The Guardian
- Nearly 60,000 coronavirus calls to NHS 24 helpline – BBC News
Health & Politics
- Nicola Sturgeon to announce re-opening of Scottish schools, not the UK Government – The Scotsman
- Coronavirus: Testing falls short of 100,000 daily target – BBC News
- Fewer people would have died if the UK carried out more coronavirus tests, Grant Shapps admits – inews
- Boris Johnson: it was 50-50 whether to put me on ventilator – The Guardian
Public Health
- Coronavirus in Scotland: Contact tracing capacity ‘has been slow’, professor warns – HeraldScotland
- Scotland “far better” than Westminster on COVID-19 public health campaign – The Scotsman
Health and Science/Technology
- Coronavirus: UK hospital trials new treatment drug – BBC News
- Coronavirus health passports for UK ‘possible in months’ – The Guardian
- Social distancing and coronavirus: The science behind the two-metre rule – BBC News
Other Health Stories
- Scotland’s first gay couple to get IVF on NHS speak of joy ahead of welcoming baby – Daily Record
- Young father suing NHS Glasgow after hip op aged 33 left him crippled and unable to work – HeraldScotland
Opinion & Letters