Hospitals say they have been told they could lose their licence to deliver coronavirus vaccines if they give second doses to anyone before 12 weeks have passed since thei...

The ability of the Covid-19 vaccines to provide protection against the South African variant may be “slightly diminished” – though immunity is unlikely to be completely c...

Sage member warns it could be weeks before Covid death rates fall Daily deaths from coronavirus in the UK will continue to rise towards the end of the month, scientists h...

Thousands fewer heart attack victims sought help from hospitals during the UK’s second national lockdown in November, sparking fears among researchers of more avoidable d...

Ronni Gamzu, who runs Tel Aviv’s Sourasky hospital, said British scientists’ claim that the jab was 89 per cent effective after one dose was “very optimistic”, and unlike...

Doctors and midwives working in maternity services face higher levels of bullying than any other part of the NHS, MPs have been told. MPs on the Commons health select com...

‘Don’t blow it now,’ Hancock warns as four million now have vaccine The rate of increase in the UK’s coronavirus death toll is unlikely to decline substantially for weeks...

A further 1,610 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test – the highest number recorded on a single day since the pandemic began. It takes...

One in four young people feel they have been “unable to cope with life” since the start of the pandemic, with the unemployed more likely to feel anxious and depressed, a...

Cancer treatments must not be delayed despite the impact of coronavirus on hospitals, health bosses have warned, amid fears too many operations are being stopped. In a me...