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NHS call for responsible drinking during ambulance worker strikes

How to book your Covid booster jab in the UK - and who is eligible to get one

Nation urged to get Covid booster jab ‘to protect freedom and Christmas’ - what ...

Unvaccinated university students have been urged to get a Covid vaccine in freshers’ week (Photo: Shutterstock)

Unvaccinated students urged to get coronavirus jab during Freshers’ week

Hepatitis C cure will now be available to under-12s on NHS in ‘world first’ (Photo by JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)

Hepatitis C cure will now be available to under-12s on NHS in ‘world-first’

The UK’s Covid-19 alert level has been lowered as the country’s top medics said the threat of the NHS being overwhelmed has receded.

Scotland’s Covid alert level lowered

The actress has been criticised by an NHS boss over her long Covid treatment regime (Photo: VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)

An NHS boss says 'serious science' is needed to treat long Covid - and Gwyneth P...

'We're on track to meet our target': what Matt Hancock said about the vaccine ro...

The two staff members had a history of allergic reactions.

Warning issued after 2 allergic reactions to coronavirus vaccine

One of the UK’s top medical officials has confirmed that two NHS workers with a history of serious allergy suffered an allergic reaction after receiving the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday. (Photo by Hugh Hastings/Getty Images)

Two people have had allergic reactions to Covid-19 vaccine, UK health chief says

Most people over 80 won't get Covid jab until next year - here's why

Picture: Jessica Hill

Coronavirus in UK: Highest ever number of daily cases recorded

Coronavirus cases are growing across the country (Photo: Shutterstock)

More people are currently hospitalised with coronavirus than in March - the late...

A nurse prepares for medical treatment with dexamethasone in a UK hospital

Cheap steroid the first drug to cut Covid-19 deaths in UK ‘breakthrough’

There are questions over the true testing figure

Test figures inflated by ‘double counting’ – and kits that aren’t returned

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has been accused of confusing the message over lockdown measures (Getty Images)

Over 70s lockdown rules: government guidelines for the elderly explained as Matt...

Michael Gove speaking during a media briefing in Downing Street, London, on coronavirus (COVID-19).

UK ministers outline Covid-19 exit plan

Britain's Transport Secretary Grant Shapps. Picture: Getty

More testing at very start would have saved lives, minister admits

It’s become too easy to disseminate scare stories. Photograph: Getty

Catherine Stihler: Faith in expertise and hard facts the only vaccine against fa...

Scientists say the UK lockdown will last several more weeks

UK facing 'several more weeks' in lockdown, scientists warn

Queen to say this generation is 'as strong as any' in coronavirus TV speech to nation

Queen to say this generation is 'as strong as any' in TV speech

In 1991, the then Chancellor Norman Lamont, seen with Prime Minister John Major, was ridiculed for using the phrase 'green shoots' amid the economic troubles of that year (Picture: PA)

Coronavirus: Why we shouldn’t dismiss talk of ‘green shoots’ – Bill Jamieson

Military personnel outside St Thomas' Hospital, in central London, as the UK continues in lockdown to help curb the spread of the coronavirus.

Two teenagers feared to be youngest virus victims as UK death toll soars

Brits warned hoarding food could attract rats

Brits stockpiling food warned about attracting rats

500,000 people have already volunteered to help the NHS - here’s what they will ...

UK death toll rises as shoppers are warned to stop stockpiling

UK coronavirus death toll rises to 233 as shoppers warned on stockpiling

Tens of thousands of retired doctors, nurses and emergency workers are being ask...

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First Minister Humza Yousaf during a visit to Castlebrae Community Campus in Edinburgh. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Scottish Government misses huge target pledged by Yousaf as waiting times rise

The first deals struck by the UK post-Brexit will come into force on Wednesday. Picture: AFP via Getty Images

Scotland’s producers deserve better than ‘rushed through’ UK trade deals

Bruce Springsteen at Murrayfield, Edinburgh, 30 May 2023.

13 pictures of Bruce Springsteen’s Edinburgh gig – and the full setlist