A smiling King Charles has arrived back at Sandringham after meeting his son Prince Harry for less than an hour in their first face-to-face encounter for nine months.
Charles and Queen Camilla were seen waving to crowds as they left Clarence House in London in an official car at 3.35pm before catching a helicopter to Norfolk.
The monarch’s Sikorsky S-76C chopper landed less than an hour later at the royal estate at around 4.20pm.
Pictures show the red and helicopter
The cast of Love Island All Stars has been announced, with Toby Aromolaran and his former flame Kaz Kamwi set to come face-to-face on the dating show.
Toby, 24, and Kaz, 29, were paired up on day one of the ITV2 show back in 2021 and had some tearful rows before they both found love with different people.
And they are set for a reunion as they have both signed up for the Love Island spin-off show, hosted by Maya
One in six GPs have failed to provide patients with face-to-face appointments as many medics claim they are unable to meet demand, a new poll has found.
Doctors implemented a virtual appointment protocol during the first covid lockdown, meaning that less than half of patients were examined in-person. Before the pandemic, about 80 per cent of appointments were face-to-face.
NHS England reversed its ‘total triage’ policy, which encouraged doctors to deal with more cases remotely, in 2021 after all patients
The proportion of people seeing their GP face-to-face has risen to its highest level since the start of the pandemic, official figures show.
Two-thirds of appointments with family doctors in England last month were in-person, according to the latest data from NHS Digital. The 66.1 per cent figure is still well below the 80 per cent average before the pandemic struck.
However, it is the highest rate since March 2020, when the UK was plunged into its first national lockdown
England’s GP access postcode lottery was laid bare today by official data showing just half of appointments are face-to-face in parts of the country.
NHS Digital figures show 65 per cent of consultations were made in-person across England in July, compared to more than 80 per cent before Covid.
But the rate was as low as 50 per cent in Somerset were made face-to-face during the month, according to the same statistics. The best-performing areas were Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton
Face-to-face GP appointments won’t get back to pre-pandemic levels for another year-and-a-half unless ministers act urgently to improve access, campaigners warned today.
Official data shows just 63 per cent of consultations were done in person in England in April, up just 1 percentage point in a month — despite the worst of Covid being over and GPs told to get back to ‘normal’.
Sajid Javid on Tuesday claimed the number of face-to-face appointments is ‘returning rapidly’ but think-tanks said general
Four in ten GP appointments in England were still not being held face-to-face last month despite mounting calls for doctors to see their patients in person, official figures show.
NHS Digital’s monthly report found around 11.1million out of 28.5million appointments (39 per cent) throughout September were not in a surgery, with most being done over the phone or online.
The figures mark a very slight rise in the proportion of in-person consultations from August and was up eight per cent
