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Textile artist Brooke Dennis, who is originally from New Zealand, makes scrubs for NHS (National Health Service) staff to wear during the coronavirus outbreak, at her textiles and craft studio called Make Town, in east London, Thursday, April 23, 2020, as part of the Scrub Hub network of voluntary community groups. The Scrub Hub just wanted to help, but they created a movement with some 70 hubs employing the skills of more than 2,200 volunteers all over the nation responding to the coronavirus pandemic, with a template for PPE, a pattern that so far has made more than 3,800 sets of scrubs for healthcare workers. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Power of the needle: 4 women help UK docs needing scrubs

By DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press

A recent but undated photo of Dr. Amged El-Hawrani. El-Hawrani, a 55-year-old father of one died March 28 at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, becoming one of the first frontline doctors in Britain's National Health Service to lose his life in the pandemic. (Photo via AP)

Lives Lost: Sudan-born doctor saw himself as ordinary Briton

By DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press

In this photo taken in early 2020 Dr. Amged El-Hawrani poses for a photo with his friend and colleague Dr Ahmed Haroun. During a pandemic, heroes wear scrubs. Amged El-Hawrani was one of them, a doctor who went to work every day as the coronavirus pandemic took hold even though he might be exposed, risking his own life. The 55-year-old died on March 28, becoming one of the first doctors in Britain’s National Health Service to succumb to COVID-19 and a symbol of the acute danger all health workers brave. (Amged El-Hawrani via AP)

Lives Lost: Sudan-born doctor saw himself as ordinary Briton

By DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press

In an image made from video taken on April 22, 2020, New Zealand nurse Jenny McGee speaks about her efforts to help save coronavirus patient British Prime Minister Boris Johnson during an interview in London. McGee was one of two National Health Service nurses who were singled out for praise by the British Prime Minister after he was discharged from St. Thomas’ Hospital in London earlier this month. Johnson, 55, was the first world leader confirmed to have the virus. (TVNZ via AP)

Nurse Jenny from New Zealand recounts treating Boris Johnson

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Doctor Meenal Viz holds a banner as she protests outside Downing Street in London, as the country is in lockdown to help curb the spread of the coronavirus, Sunday, April 19, 2020. The doctor who is pregnant protested about the lack of PPE and protection for NHS health workers. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Reverence for Britain’s NHS complicates supply shortages

By DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press

Three police officers at left and a security guard at right guard an entrance outside St Thomas' Hospital in London, where British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is being treated for coronavirus, Friday, April 10, 2020. In a statement Thursday, a spokesman at 10 Downing Street said Johnson &quot;has been moved this evening from intensive care back to the ward, where he will receive close monitoring during the early phase of his recovery.&quot; (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

UK virus deaths top 10,000 as leader Johnson leaves hospital

By PAN PYLAS and JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

In this Thursday, April 9, 2020 photo, Turkish police officers man a checkpoint to check people's ID due to measures against the spread of coronavirus in Ankara, Turkey. Turkey has charted its own course to navigate the coronavirus pandemic, with a more relaxed lockdown than its neighbours in Europe and the Middle East. Citing concerns about the economy, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has so far resisted calls for more drastic measures to stem the contagion.(AP Photo/Burthan Ozbilici)

Amid pandemic, Christians celebrate an Easter like no other

By DAVID CRARY and NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 31, 2020 file photo work continues at the ExCel centre which is being made into a temporary hospital called NHS Nightingale in London. In the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, soldiers are delivering millions of face masks to hospitals and helping to build makeshift medical facilities, including one at London's ExCel convention center that can treat as many as 4,000 patients. (Stefan Rousseau/Pool Photo via AP, File)

‘We love you NHS’: UK health service gears up for virus peak

By DANICA KIRKA AND JO KEARNEY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, June 24, 2016 file photo, Vote Leave campaigner Boris Johnson arrives for a press conference at Vote Leave headquarters in London. (Mary Turner/Pool via AP, File)

Photo of sick boy on floor roils British election campaign

By KELVIN CHAN and MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Illustration on British single payer healthcare by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Some British lessons on ‘single payer’ health care

By Robert E. Moffitt

People wave banners depicting Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May, during a protest march in support of the National Health Service (NHS), as winter conditions are thought to have put severe strain on health services, in London Saturday Feb. 3, 2018. The Government is urged to provide funds for beds and staff to ease the problems facing the NHS medical services. (Yui Mok/PA via AP)

When government runs health care

By Cal Thomas

FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016 file photo, Junior National Health Service (NHS) doctors wave placards referring to British Conservative Party Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt, during a protest outside St Thomas Hospital in London. This winter has brought a daily drip of grim stories from Britain's health care system, and experts say alarm bells should be ringing across the entire system. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, file)

Winter flu, Brexit put beloved UK health service on sickbed

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

Badly strained UK hospitals to delay non-urgent procedures

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Physicist Hawking criticizes UK health secretary on service

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This Friday Aug. 14, 2009 file photo shows a sign outside one of London's National Health Service hospitals. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

Most of NHS ‘back to normal’ after unprecedented cyberattack

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Patrick Ward, 47, a sales director at Purbeck Ice Cream, from Dorset in England, poses for photographs after giving media interviews after his heart operation scheduled today was cancelled because of a cyberattack, outside St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, Friday, May 12, 2017. A large cyberattack crippled computer systems at hospitals across England on Friday, with appointments canceled, phone lines down and patients turned away. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Dozens of countries hit by huge cyberextortion attack

By ANICK JESDANUN and JILL LAWLESS and ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

This Wednesday Oct. 23, 2013, file photo shows Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, right, speaking with Prince William and Kate Duchess of Cambridge as they arrive with their son Prince George at the Chapel Royal in St. James's Palace London. Royal fans are ready to welcome Prince William and Kate's second child. (John Stillwell/Pool, via AP File)

David Cameron defends royals’ right to choose birth hospital

By Gregory Katz - Associated Press

Image: Twitter, Chelsea Attonley

U.K. transsexual expects taxpayers to fund reverse sex change: ‘No one should deny me’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

**FILE** A protester holds a replica of a fetus to make her point. Catholic and Protestant abortion opponents have come together to oppose the clinic’s opening. (Associated Press)

Aborted, miscarried babies burned to heat U.K. hospitals: report

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times