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NHS Test and Trace staff set up at the Liverpool Tennis Centre in Wavertree, ahead of the start of mass Covid-19 testing in Liverpool
AROUND four in 10 contacts of people testing positive for Covid-19 are still not being reached through the test-and-trace system, official figures revealed today.
Only just over 60 per cent of close contacts of those who tested positive in England were reached in the week ending November 11, according to the latest data from the Department of Health and Social Care.
It is the fifth week in a row that the figure has been just above 60 per cent.
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
With more people dying each year and many spending their final days in institutions, researchers argue that wider access to palliative care could offer a more humane and cost-effective alternative, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
