As the Government begins to ease the coronavirus lockdown, we can expect the United Kingdom NHS to attempt to reach some semblance of normality. We fear however that it will be difficult for the NHS to cope with the Cancer backlog which has built up over the past three months. Surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy has…
Photo courtesy Snow Monkey Park, Japan The UK government’s initial promise of a vaccine by September this year appeared to be too good to be true. It obviously was! This will be sad news for the many Cancer patients with immune systems compromised by chemotherapy treatment who must self-isolate until a covid-19 vaccine is available. The…
The Mail on Sunday reports that The British Health Secretary has been plunged into a fresh virus row after it emerged thousands of cancer patients were being denied coronavirus-safe treatments that could save their lives. The Health Secretary was challenged to act over protests that half of England’s cancer centres were still not routinely providing…
The government in England have now given us online guidance and updates, (see Further Reading), on what we can and can’t do while the coronavirus pandemic is with us. Devolved governments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland continue coronavirus lockdown. Wherever you live in the UK or, for that matter, anywhere in the world, if…