90-Minute COVID-19 tests to be Provided to Care Homes
A new test that can detect COVID-19 and flu, and deliver test results within 90 minutes, is to be used in care homes from next week.
Read more...A new test that can detect COVID-19 and flu, and deliver test results within 90 minutes, is to be used in care homes from next week.
Read more...An outdoor music initiative has hit the right note at Didsbury care village, Belong Morris Feinmann, with residents delighting in a live garden
Read more...A resident at Oakleigh Lodge care home in Nottingham was left astonished after being reunited with his childhood bedroom after almost a decade.
Read more...Care home owners in Wales have described the extra £22.7 million in emergency funding announced by the Welsh Government as a “temporary sticking plaster”.
Read more...The National Association of Care Catering (NACC) is excited to confirm that the NACC Training & Development Forum 2020, including the NACC Awards 2020, will return to the East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham, on 7-9 October as a live event.
Read more...New £156,000 two-year study led by University of Bradford academic
Helping frail elderly people manage multiple medicines safely is the focus of a new research project led by Dr Beth Fylan, Senior Lecturer in Patient
Read more...After a month without any guidance on visiting in care homes in England, families and providers desperately needed clarity and leadership from Government. Unfortunately, the
Read more...The health & Social Care Committee has launched a new inquiry to examine workforce burnout across the NHS and social care. It will consider increased pressures brought by Covid-19
Read more...The Lancet has launched new guidance which reveals that an extended set of 12 modifiable risk factors might prevent or delay up to 40 per cent of dementia cases globally.
Read more...As part of its ongoing investment in new homes, Care UK has just celebrated the turf-cutting of its seventh home to currently be under construction.
Read more...Responding to the letter from NHS England and NHS Improvement on the “third phase” of the NHS’s response to Covid-19, Niall Dickson, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, which represents organisations across the healthcare sector, said:
Read more...An elderly couple have celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary with a special outdoor lunch at Jesmond Care Home in Aberdeen.
Read more...The Old Vicarage care home in Sherborne, Dorset, which provides high quality residential care to up to 41 people, is proudly announcing the opening of its temporary ‘garden visiting room’.
Read more...Pen pals have 73-year age gap but have formed a fantastic friendship
Even though there’s an age gap of over 73-years, pen pals Eva, 14, and Mary, 86, have been keeping each other company during the Coronavirus
Read more...Excessive alcohol consumption, traumatic brain injury and pollution included in new findings Sleep a possible risk factor but more research needed Lower income countries at
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