Saffron Cordery: Last News

People have been urged to wear masks again in crowded and enclosed spaces, amid fears that hospitalisations from coronavirus could hit an 18-month high. The warning, which came from senior health official Dame Dr Jenny Harries on Sunday (June 3), came just days after it was reported that Manchester's hospitals were among those seeing a huge influx in positive admissions from the virus.

Junior doctors in England will stage a four-day strike in April after talks with the Government failed to resolve a bitter row over pay.

Hospitals have seen "a real rise in pressure" in Tier 4 areas including London and the South in the past days.

here"Tomorrow, he will set out a broad package of measures to protect against both a possible second wave, and to ease winter pressures and keep the public safe."The spokesman said the immediate funding for England was new and not previously allocated, while expenditure will be set out for the devolved nations in due course.Mr Johnson is also expected to publish an additional chapter to the Government's "road map" for recovery from the crisis.NHS Providers, which represents NHS organisations, welcomed the financial support to prepare with the "triple whammy of pressures" from winter, a possible second surge and trying to recover from the strain of the pandemic so far.But deputy chief executive Saffron Cordery called for "urgent clarity"

coronavirus - which could overwhelm hospitals. Saffron Cordery, of health service trusts group NHS Providers, it was “worrying” that infection rates were increasing around the world.She said that authorities in the UK should “do everything we can to prevent this being the case” here.Authorities in South Korea have said the country is already experiencing a second wave of the coronavirus and there is a worrying upturn in the number of cases reported in Israel.

NHS trusts were not consulted on plans for all hospital staff to wear surgical face masks and visitors and outpatients to wear face coverings from June 15, a healthcare chief has claimed.