Public health

100,000 deaths – why has the UK toll been so high? BBC

Uniting the Movement is our 10-year vision to transform lives and communities through sport and physical activity. As we adapt and rebuild from the huge disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic, we need to collectively reimagine how we keep movement, sport and activity central to the lives of everyone. Because if we harness its power, we’ll be able to improve people’s lives in so many ways Sport England

NHS Policy / Finance

AstraZeneca reduces vaccine volume for EU – why – and will the UK be affected? Guardian

The supply of Covid vaccine to the North West region is set to be cut by around a third in February, seemingly due to national shortages and the need for other regions to catch up with vaccinating their priority groups HSJ

Clinical

Stevens: “New therapies will make life normal” Times

IT/Tech

Problems with a major vaccination IT system across England are occurring because the NHS greatly under-estimated the amount of data which would need to be processed - The blunder means the company which runs Pinnacle – the IT software used at all vaccination centres apart from NHS hospitals – is “scrabbling” to increase the system’s capacity to keep up with the increasing numbers of jabs happening HSJ