NHS News

• Cold weather alert: Level 2 – alert and readiness
• Deterioration due to rapid offload of pleural effusion fluid from chest drains
• Cold weather alert: Level 1 – winter preparedness and action
• NHS to pilot potentially revolutionary blood test that detects more than 50 cancers
• Cold weather alert: Level 2 – alert and readiness

BBC Health News

• Prof Van-Tam uses football analogy to explain Covid timeline
  Prof Jonathan Van-Tam used a football analogy to explain the UK's Covid-19 timeline.
• Prof Van-Tam: 'We don't know how long immunisation will last'
  Prof Jonathan Van-Tam says it will take time before we understand how long the vaccine will be effective.
• Boris Johnson: 'We must not get carried away'
  Boris Johnson says it will be "some months before all the most vulnerable are protected" and we must not get "carried away with over-optimism".
• Covid-19: How will the new Pfizer vaccine work?
  The Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine has been approved for widespread use in the UK.
• Covid vaccine: 'The safety of the public will always come first'
  Dr June Raine from the MHRA explains why the body recommenced the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for approval.

PatientInfo News

• Painkillers and heart attack – new day, new concerns
• Doctors and the DVLA: what does updated guidance mean for patients?
• Stroke surgery – a brave new world?
• Why are Americans dying so needlessly?
• The abnormal heart rhythm you can't afford to miss