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Tory MP says No10’s hated push to build new homes a year is surgeries GP practices

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Massive new housing estates cropping up across England are only making the GP crisis worse, a Tory MP claimed today. 

Andrew Selous, who represents South West Bedfordshire, said practices can’t cope with the sheer number of people moving into huge developments.

Speaking at Prime Minister’s Questions, the Conservative said the matter was a ‘life and death issue’.

He told how a 51-year-old father, from his constituency, was diagnosed with terminal bowel cancer after he struggled to get a GP appointment.

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UK’s Covid cases soar 40% in first week after No10’s ‘Freedom Day’

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Britain’s daily Covid cases soared more than 40 per cent in a week today amid mounting signs that the country’s outbreak is growing again. 

Government dashboard data shows another 44,740 infections were logged over the last 24 hours, a surge on the 31,933 recorded last Friday. It is the biggest week-on-week for two months, since the Omicron wave was starting to peak, and marks the third day in a row that cases have risen week-on-week. 

Meanwhile, hospitalisations are also creeping

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Now one of No10’s gloomy modellers backs Boris’ plan to ‘ride out’ Omicron wave

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One of the Government’s leading Covid modellers today appeared to back Boris Johnson’s plan to ‘ride out’ the Omicron wave as he claimed that imposing more restrictions now would have little effect.

Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Modelling group (Spi-M) which feeds into SAGE, said ‘we’re starting to see things turn around’.

He claimed that if measures had been imposed before Christmas they may have reduced the number of infections but admitted restrictions would be

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NHS to scrap routine surgeries to hit No10’s booster deadline

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The NHS is set to scrap yet more routine operations in order for staff to shift their attentions to the UK’s mammoth booster rollout, health leaders have warned.

Boris Johnson has promised to offer all 53million eligible adults a booster Covid vaccine by the end of January to shield the nation from the incoming Omicron wave.

But with crippling staff shortages and waiting lists already at an all-time high, health chiefs say it will come at the cost of planned

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No10’s OWN estimates show just 20,000 unjabbed NHS staff will get compulsory jabs

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The new ‘no jab, no job’ rule in the NHS might only spur on around 20,000 workers to get vaccinated against Covid, according to the Government’s own estimates.

A white paper into the impact of the policy was published by the Department of Health tonight after Sajid Javid announced that all frontline NHS workers in England need to be double-jabbed against Covid

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Dominic Cummings criticises Boris Johnson in wake of Covid report laying bare No10’s failures

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Former top adviser Dominic Cummings today branded Boris Johnson a ‘joke’ in the wake of the first Covid inquiry

Dominic Cummings today criticised his old boss Boris Johnson and branded the Prime Minister a ‘joke’ in the wake of a devastating report which laid bare the string of failures the Government has made throughout the Covid pandemic. 

Speaking to Sky News outside his home, the PM’s ex chief adviser labelled No10’s system for dealing with crises a ‘disaster’.

He said:

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