David Oliver

Professor David Oliver Is an NHS Consultant in geriatrics and internal medicine, former vice president of the Royal College of Physicians and president of the British Geriatrics Society. He is also a weekly columnist in the British Medical Journal

<p>Nurses work on patients in the Intensive Care Unit in St George's Hospital in Tooting, south-west London</p>

‘Covid is no worse than flu’ – seven coronavirus myths busted

At prices of as much as $50,000 for top-of-the-line models, ventilators are too expensive for the government to buy enough for a widespread respiratory outbreak

There is no cynical plot to distort coronavirus death certificates

Children admitted to A&E with a psychiatric condition peaked in 2018-19 at 26,593 – the equivalent of 72 a day

40 new hospitals won't solve the NHS bed crisis

Letters: Holocaust Day

Personal Finance: The year of the bumper tax bill