The findings of the study led by researchers from the University College London (UCL) offer respite to sufferers of mild COVID-19 infection who form a vast majority of infected people.
St George s - British Heart Foundation collaboration wins award St George s Hospital has won an award for a special episode of 24 Hours in A&E with the British Heart Foundation. 24 Hours in A&E: Heart Special’ won the Best Brand-Driven Format Award at the annual International Format Awards for their special collaboration. The Heart Special, funded by the British Heart Foundation, provided an opportunity to raise awareness and increase support to their research to save and improve lives. The programme aired in the first week of the UK’s first lockdown in March 2020 with two million people tuning in live - it led to 62% more text donations in one night than the British Heart Foundation typically receives in one month of TV fundraising activity.
St George s - British Heart Foundation collaboration wins award St George s Hospital has won an award for a special episode of 24 Hours in A&E with the British Heart Foundation. 24 Hours in A&E: Heart Special’ won the Best Brand-Driven Format Award at the annual International Format Awards for their special collaboration. The Heart Special, funded by the British Heart Foundation, provided an opportunity to raise awareness and increase support to their research to save and improve lives. The programme aired in the first week of the UK’s first lockdown in March 2020 with two million people tuning in live - it led to 62% more text donations in one night than the British Heart Foundation typically receives in one month of TV fundraising activity.
Experts warned the lost referrals could lead to thousands of delayed diagnoses and avoidable deaths.
NHS England data shows the number of patients urgently referred for the cancer fell by 28 per cent between April 2020 and January of this year - about 52,000 fewer.
The charity Prostate Cancer UK estimates at least 8,600 fewer men started treatment for prostate cancer in that time, down around a third on 2019.
It said the drop in referrals is largely attributed to fewer men seeing their GP during this time. Urgent cancer referrals are made when family doctors strongly suspect a patient may have the disease.
For example, separate NHS Digital figures show there have been 35million GP appointments over the course of the pandemic.