A new study at a Cambridge hospital has shown that the quality of face masks worn by health workers can play a huge role in drastically reducing hospital-acquired coronavirus infections among staff.

Wearing upgraded face masks can provide up to 100% protection against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), a new study conducted by Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust has found.

Certain types of face masks are unsafe for wearing in and around MRI machines, according to new research by scientists at Cardiff University. The team tested eight different types of commercially ...

An NHS organisation in Gateshead has become the first in the country to start manufacturing its own FFP3 masks – masks produced by the NHS, for the NHS. FFP3 (Filtering Face Piece 3) masks have become ...

The evidence that FFP3 face masks were more protective for doctors than surgical masks is ‘weak’, the Covid inquiry has heard. Professor Susan Hopkins, chief medical adviser at the UK Health Security ...

Hospitals could reduce sickness absence and halve the number of hospital-acquired Covid-19 infections by permanently switching from surgical masks to FFP3 respirators, a study has found. FFP3 face ...

The quality of face masks healthcare workers wear makes a huge difference to their risk of coronavirus infection, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust research has found. Wearing a high ...

For one north Wales GP, his vote in the upcoming Senedd/Welsh Parliament election rests on what many healthcare workers wear everyday - face masks. Dr Eilir Hughes is calling for all health staff ...