The 'surging' wave of 'superflu' that is supposedly threatening the NHS with collapse this winter has gone into decline early, with prevalence dropping in the most recent week and hospital admissions falling flat.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said there is no need to mandate mask-wearing for "everyone around the country" "at this stage" as "the time has not yet come for everyone to wear masks".
The mask mafia is back. The UK faces "a tidal wave" of 'super flu' and people must "get back into the habit" of mask-wearing, says one senior NHS mandarin. We have one defence, says Dr Gary Sidley: do not comply.
Addressing the lurid claims of a 'super flu' season, Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson find themselves having serious problems reconciling the screaming headlines with the actual Government data.
The tireless hacks at the BBC have emerged from their bunkers once again to terrorise the public by bravely touring the hospitals and whipping up hysteria about the latest outbreak of flu.
More than half of the public is unhappy with the NHS, polling shows, with a doubling in dissatisfaction in just two years, and warnings of a “tipping point” from which it is hard to recover.
Over 70 years have passed since the NHS was established; if the best minds in organisational thinking have been unable to come up with solutions in that time, perhaps there are none, writes Dr Andrew Bamji.
More than 13,300 NHS hospital beds – one in seven – were filled with patients fit for discharge but unable to leave each day last month, triple the pre-pandemic figure, as excess non-Covid deaths continue to climb.
Why is the NHS in crisis and why have there been thousands of excess deaths since the spring? An Emergency Department doctor says what he sees on the frontline, including a spike in heart attacks since the vaccinations.
The NHS is in a perpetual winter crisis, something that more than doubling the budget in the 2000s did nothing to change. With beds already 95% occupied, will Therese Coffey's plan to get us through the winter work?
