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This is why there is a problem contacting those who have been in contact with a positive Covid case. Some people never answer unknown numbers and are therefore never traced. Always try to check who the unknown number is before dismissing it. It could save some lives.

I have acquired some brilliant mini wipes, perfect for wiping cutlery, round the rims of cups and glasses or anything else like that. They are in small sachets, so easy to carry about in pockets, wallets or handbags. We are currently on holiday and have taken advantage of the eat out to help...

Good news about your eGFR @JohnEGreen and good luck with the urine test. :)

Matt Hancock has stated this evening that from Midnight tonight households are banned from meeting any other household indoors in the whole of Greater Manchester (a HUGE area), Blackburn with Darwen, Burnley, Hyndburn, Rossendale and Pendle in East Lancashire, and Bradford, Calderdale and others...

My hairdresser says it was all in the guidelines she received so she followed them to the letter.

I had a hair cut the other week. Very, very safe. Masks obligatory. She wore a visor. Chairs disinfected after each customer, as was the sink. My jacket and handbag were put in a bin bag. Hand sanitisers all over the place. Chain across the front and side doors (which were open) to stop people...

My grandma almost made 100. Her favourite dish was onion pie and steeped peas. She also swore by a small glass of sherry daily.

As far as I know they are still recruiting. They are doubling the number of Work Coaches in the Job Centres. The department is the DWP. It was only announced at the beginning of July, so I imagine they are still recruiting.

My daughter is a Work Coach in the DSS and has been at home since the beginning. Last week those still working in the office were sent an email asking if they would be prepared to work from home. The reason being the department is currently recruiting thousands more Work Coaches to deal with the...

People booking foreign holidays over the next few months are taking a big risk. They risk being in contact with the virus during the travelling there and back if not in the actual country, and they risk losing their money if the planes are still flying to that country and therefore not obliged...

I rather thought it was for food establishments that employ more than 250 people, so the big chains rather than small independent places. Am I wrong?

The 9.7 depends entirely on what you had eaten and drunk in the couple of hours before the test, and could even be affected by what you did in those 2 hours - rush about? Run? Exercise?

Nor me! I'm on my first glass of the evening right now. In my very first interview with my nurse, back in 2014, she said red wine is fine to drink, and that it lowers blood sugars, but to always drink with a full stomach or with a meal, and never to treat it as diabetes medicine! Possibly the...

Personally, I think anyone with some sort of risky health problems voluntarily travelling abroad, anywhere, is putting themselves at risk. Transport to the airport, hanging about in a busy airport, queuing in a busy airport, touching surfaces millions of others have touched, public toilets, the...

On my Patient Access medical records on line there is a category "GP shared record history". This tells me if any third party has been allowed access to my records. I was in hospital a couple of years ago. On discharge I looked at my on-line records and there, under the shared record category...

Was the nutritionist a vegetarian by any chance? Edit - post crossed with @Hotpepper20000

The eye test is a retinal screening test where they take an image of your eyes. It is nothing like an eyesight test. First of all they get you to read one of those opticians letter boards at a distance, then they put some drops in your eyes. You then wait about 10 minutes before having the...

My records on Patient Access are all still there. However, they did disappear last year sometime. I waited a while as I assumed it was a glitch, but before I could moan to the practice about it, they all came back. Apparently it was something to do with an update.

The school children in our neighbourhood have been noticeable by their absence for most of this lockdown. Heaven!. But this last week or two they have been playing out on their bikes and scooters, all day and well into the evening. All from different households, various age groups, and no...

My daughter's government department jumped on the band wagon very quickly. Not only daughter sent home, but also any others with underlying health conditions recorded on their works medical records - and also obese staff, which must have been very embarrassing for them. All on full pay. All face...