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An average of 28,560 NHS staff at hospital trusts in England were ill with coronavirus or having to self-isolate each day in the week to April 3.

The disruption to cancer services during the pandemic has been a global phenomenon. In the UK, it has amplified structural failings in the delivery of cancer diagnosis and treatment that existed long before lockdown restrictions started in March 2020.

Parents and other carers now able to book lower-dose appointments for Monday onwards

What is the practice, how many people have experienced it, and does it have a future in the UK?

Medics in charge of midwifery at three of the region's hospital trusts have reflected on lessons which can be learned from the Ockenden Report into avoidable deaths of babies and some mums in the Midlands.

Valerie Thompson, from Timperley, Manchester, had felt “exhausted” upon returning home from a trip to Australia but she had no idea the devastating diagnosis was to come

The number of patients seriously ill with coronavirus remains low, however.

Valerie Thompson returned from a trip abroad, but put her exhaustion down to jet lag

Around one in eight delays were of more than an hour.