Vin Diwakar: Last News

direct to your inboxAn NHS boss has compared breaking the lockdown rules to turning on a light in the middle of a blackout during the Blitz. Dr Vin Diwakar, NHS England regional medical director for London, speaking at a coronavirus briefing on Thursday said: "This is the biggest health emergency to face this country since the Second World War.

direct to your inboxAn NHS boss has slammed the 'morally reprehensible' actions of people trying to jump the queue for a Covid-19 vaccine.Dr Vin Diwakar, NHS England regional medical director for London, said he was 'horrified' to hear that people had tried to book a coronairus vaccine appointment online without receiving an invitation.It comes after the Evening Standard reported that links to the Swiftqueue system used to book jabs for NHS staff were being shared online.“People are being called in priority order so that we can vaccinate those most at risk of serious illness first," Dr Diwakar told a Downing Street press briefing this evening.“That is why I was horrified to hear reports that some unscrupulous people have used links shared

coronavirus lockdown rules by holding illegal parties. The Home Secretary chaired a Downing Street briefing on Thursday, January 21, after admitting earlier this week it is still "a long way" until restrictions can start to be lifted.

coronavirus lockdown crackdown.The Home Secretary is set to speak at 5pm where she is expected to give people a final warning to obey the rules, or face a toughening up of lockdown restrictions.It is thought she will beg people to follow the restrictions and may threaten even tougher action if the infection rate does not start to come down. She will be joined by Martin Hewitt, Chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council, and Dr Vin Diwakar, NHS England's regional medical director for London.

direct to your inboxAn NHS boss has painted a grim picture of the coronavirus situation in the capital as he warned about the disease that is capable of leaving even young people 'breathless and gasping for life'.Dr Vin Diwakar, NHS medical director in London, has said that patients may have to be sent elsewhere for other conditions as pressure on hospital beds from Covid-19 continues to increase.Speaking at a Downing Street briefing on Tuesday night, he said: "As the pressure from Covid-19 has increased, this has put pressure on the number of beds we have for other conditions.“That’s why yesterday we opened the Nightingale hospital and admitted our first patients.

NHS briefing. NHS England London medical director, Vin Diwakar, gave a bleak analysis to the medical directors of hospital trusts on a Zoom call.The update showed even if the number of Covid patients grew at the lowest rate, and measures to manage demand and increase capacity were successful, the NHS in London would be short of 2,000 general and acute and intensive care beds by January 19.