Tag: National Health Service
U.K.’s Other Health Crisis: A Huge Backlog of Delayed Non-Covid Care
LONDON — Lara Wahab had been waiting for more than two years for a kidney and pancreas transplant, but months…
Fears of Omicron’s Rapid Spread Are Tempered by Signs of Milder Illness
The Omicron variant is blazing around the world with such speed that even the leader of Israel, one of the…
Despite Omicron Wave, Britons Are Set on Not Losing Another Christmas
LONDON — Under the exuberant Christmas decorations strung above one of London’s most famous shopping streets, presents filled the arms…
Selling Luxury Apartments Where Oliver Twist Once Asked for Gruel
When the building was threatened with destruction, in 2007, Professor Black and a charity devoted to Georgian-era architecture tried to…
U.K. System Strained as Health Care Workers Get Covid Themselves
LONDON — In the hospital in southwest England where Joanna Poole works as an intensive care doctor and anesthesiologist, the…
U.K. Weighing Lockdown Amid an Omicron Wave and Political Turmoil
LONDON — With coronavirus cases in Britain exploding, driven by the highly transmissible Omicron variant, the government is leaving open…