Temporary mortuaries at council gritting yards and near nature reserves were brought back into action across England to deal with the uptick. Sites have been used in each of the last three years.
An NHS GP is pocketing £700,000 a year while nurses earning as little as £24,907 are forced to fight for more than a 1 per cent pay rise.
The nation s highest-paid family doctor is one of hundreds earning more than the Prime Minister, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Patient and nursing groups last night blasted the staggering sums and questioned how the vast disparity could be justified.
The fat cat medics are likely to be benefiting from a contract that allows them to run several surgeries and earn money for providing extra treatments.
The Royal College of Nursing says nurses earn an average of £33,384, while figures from NHS Digital show GPs earn an average of £98,000 – three times more.
A HEREFORD doctor is refusing to have the coronavirus vaccination, despite being involved in the rollout in the city where almost 3,000 people have been jabbed. Wargrave House Surgery GP Clare Jones sent a letter to Hereford and South Herefordshire MP Jesse Norman saying she would use her free will and conscience after weighing up the pros and cons. The letter, which was also sent to the Lockdown Sceptics website, said: Like most other people who decline the vaccine, I’m not an anti-vaxxer . My son is fully vaccinated; I have travel vaccines. But I weigh up the pros and cons of vaccines in a more informed way than most other people and have decided for now I don’t want it (likewise the flu vaccine).
Clare Jones, a partner at Wargrave House Surgery in Hereford, said in a letter to the city s MP Jesse Norman that she will not be among those attending a community hall for the Covid jab.