Tag: National Health Service

U.K.’s Other Health Crisis: A Huge Backlog of Delayed Non-Covid Care

LONDON — Lara Wahab had been waiting for more than two years…

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Fears of Omicron’s Rapid Spread Are Tempered by Signs of Milder Illness

The Omicron variant is blazing around the world with such speed that…

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Despite Omicron Wave, Britons Are Set on Not Losing Another Christmas

LONDON — Under the exuberant Christmas decorations strung above one of London’s…

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Selling Luxury Apartments Where Oliver Twist Once Asked for Gruel

When the building was threatened with destruction, in 2007, Professor Black and…

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U.K. System Strained as Health Care Workers Get Covid Themselves

LONDON — In the hospital in southwest England where Joanna Poole works…

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U.K. Weighing Lockdown Amid an Omicron Wave and Political Turmoil

LONDON — With coronavirus cases in Britain exploding, driven by the highly…

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Omicron Wave Heads for U.K., but It’s Not Clear How Bad It’ll Be

LONDON — With cases of the Omicron variant doubling every three days…

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