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Alastair McLellan
@HSJEditor
I am the editor of HSJ, the No1 source of news on the NHS, and have reported on UK health policy for over 20 years. Subscribe for our unmatched coverage.
London
Joined August 2008
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    BREAKING: The number of Covid+ patients in England is now growing at 38% per week. That is the fastest rate of increase since last October! I think we're in real trouble
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    WOAH! BREAKING: Hospital admissions of covid positive patients in England up 48% in a week. Fourth Covid wave of 2022 now in full effect
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    Bloody hell! Covid hospital admissions in the South West are now WORSE THAN JANUARY!
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    BREAKING: Covid hospital admissions now up 21% over past week. Weekly total back over 8000
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    'We are a lot closer to normal than we were a few months ago' says @sajidjavid Weekly covid hospital admissions 17 June: 1220 17 Oct: 5250
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    BREAKING: Covid positve patients in English hospitals now back over 10,000 for the first time since 15 Feb - up 18% in a week More to follow
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    BREAKING: Number of covid positive patients in English hospitals falls below 5000 for 1st time since 25 July. Really looks as if the Summer Wave has peaked (and that people like me were too pessimistic when it came fearing how high peak might be). Never been happier to be wrong
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    BREAKING: The results for all national Covid testing has gone missing
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    BREAKING: Admissions of covid-positive patients to English hospitals UP 15% in the last week (more to follow)
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    The health secretary @sajidjavid repeats his description of nearly 1000 covid deaths a week as 'mercifuly low' - I expect that statement will haunt him
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    It REALLY didn't, V worried that the BBC is tweeting this out as fact rather than claim @BBCHughPym
    The UK carried out 122,000 coronavirus tests on the last day of April, passing the government's target bbc.in/3c6NPLu
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    On the way to work in central London. Top deck of the bus, one small window half open, 30 people, three quarters unmasked. Demographics suggest around half unboosted. We’re getting this wrong.
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    Yesterday I was asked to prepare a brief about the situation in the NHS for a senior (non-Gov) political figure, who was about to do some media interviews. Now that's done - I thought you might like to see it (thread follows) 1/8
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    BREAKING: Fifth covid wave of 2022 finally kicking off Hospital admissions up 28% in a week and growing expedontially england.nhs.uk/statistics/sta…