Carers Call For Christmas Covid Caution Providers Fear Festive Third Wave
ANXIOUS care providers are urging caution over the Christmas period as they fear a third wave of Covid-19 after the festive break.
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Coventry care home Care Assistant becomes first care worker to receive COVID-19 vaccine in UK
It was a memorable day at HC-One’s Victoria Mews care home in Coventry as Care Assistant, Shannon Cawley became the first care worker in the UK to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on Monday 8th December.
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Call For Providers To Share Their Views As Survey For HFT’s Annual Sector Pulse Check Opens
Learning disability providers are being encouraged to share their perspective on the last 12 months, including the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, to build an informed picture of the financial health of the social care sector.
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UK Company Develop Anti-Viral Facemask Believed To Kill Covid-19
Study confirms fabric’s nano-coating has anti-microbial properties
SCIENTISTS at Cambridge University https://www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/anti-viral-surface-testing are testing a facemask that has an anti-viral fabric coating that they
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A Guaranteed White Christmas For Birchwood Care Home This Year!
Birchwood House, the Tunbridge Wells-based care home will be going all out this year to make sure it’s a white and jolly Christmas for the residents. With a snow machine set to add a dusting of white to the beautiful House
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Christmas Cards Bring Joy To All Ages In Nottingham
After a difficult year, the teams at New Care’s Ruddington Manor Care Centre and The Grand Care Centre, located in Wilford and West Bridgford respectively, decided to bring joy
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More Regions To Move To Tier 3 But Is It Enough To Protect The NHS
In his statement to the House of Commons today (Monday 14 December), the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care announced that Greater London and parts of both Essex
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Care Home Manager Among First To Receive Covid-19 Vaccine In Notts
A NOTTINGHAMSHIRE care group has seen one of its care home managers become one of the first recipients of the COVID-19 vaccine in the region with a roll-out to the rest of its team now underway.
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Care Home Residents To Get Vaccinations This Week
A designated care home in Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board will be the first in Wales to receive the vaccine, with teams in additional Health Boards taking the vaccine to care homes later this week.
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Visitors to Care Homes Over Christmas
By Mary – Teresa Deignan, barrister specialising in healthcare practising from Temple Garden Chambers (mtdeignan@tgchambers.com)
On 1 December 2020 the Department of Health and Social Care issued its most recent guidance on visitors to care homes during COVID-19
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Maritime Care Home Thanks Supporters After Difficult Year
Maritime charity, The Royal Alfred Seafarers’ Society, and its care home Belvedere House is thanking its supporters for all their assistance over the last 12 months against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Care Home Infection- The Importance of a “Early Warning System”
It is good news that care home resi- dents may be allowed to spend Christmas with their families and a few may be able to visit family homes during the festive season.
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Care Home Covid-19 Vaccination Programme Begins In Scotland
A 90-year-old woman in South Lanarkshire has become the first care home resident to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine.
Former carer Annie Innes was vaccinated at Abercorn House in Hamilton.
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Sunrise Senior Living UK And Gracewell Healthcare Scoop Two Major Awards
Sunrise Senior Living UK and Gracewell Healthcare have won two awards at this year’s BOC International Brilliance Awards. The care provider was named as the winner of the
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Veterans At Sunrise Of Winchester Receive ‘Forget You Not’ Gift Boxes
Sunrise of Winchester hosted a presentation on 3rd December to give ex-servicemen and women living at the care home The Not Forgotten’s ‘Forget You Not’ gift boxes.
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