A fifth of the UK population has now received two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine. Six NHS think-tanks, bodies and unions urged the government to invest in preventing a ‘haemorrhage’ of frontline staff just as the health and care system needs to get into the elective care backlog.
The Health Service Journal and the King’s Fund wrote rather different reports on NHS IT that highlighted uncertainty about the leadership of, funding for, and strategy underpinning health tech just as it needs to build on the gains made during the pandemic. And our advisory board debated what next for social care.