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Responding to yesterdays (April 21) Downing Street briefing, Niall Dickson, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, which represents organisations across healthcare, said: “The tragedy of
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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has been contacting adult social care providers to book appointments for their staff to be tested for COVID-19. Since 10
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Responding to the latest ONS figures on deaths from COVID-19 in the community, which show that up until 10 April nearly 20 per cent of
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Ground-breaking data published by the National Care Forum (NCF) gathered from an independent benchmarking exercise of members has revealed COVID-19 related resident deaths within the
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A Shropshire care home has been helping residents stay in touch with loved ones through video calling apps. Cloverfields Residential Care Home and Nursing Home
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Four hundred midwives, paramedics and other healthcare students are taking up frontline health care roles as part of the University of Bradford’s response to the
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Councils across England will receive a further £1.6 billion to help them to deal with the immediate impacts of coronavirus This takes the total funding
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Residents at a care home in Welshpool received a special visitor over the bank holiday weekend, when one staff member turned up to work with
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Responding to today’s Downing Street briefing, Dr Layla McCay, director at the NHS Confederation, said: “We know that it will take some time for a
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Need for government to help local authorities Care providers are calling for better financial support from the Government to help them get through the hardships
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Responding to the delay in the delivery of PPE from Turkey, Niall Dickson, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, which represents organisations across healthcare, said:
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Symptomatic staff working in a greater number of professions will now be able to access coronavirus testing Testing will allow those currently unable to return
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In response to one of the toughest Coronavirus challenges – the need to keep life as normal as possible for care home residents living with dementia – a local activities organiser has revised plans for spring with
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Responding to today’s Downing Street briefing, Dr Layla McCay, director at the NHS Confederation, which represents organisations across the healthcare sector, said: “The public has
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Almost 5,000 former staff are now back on the NHS front line after coming out of retirement to support the coronavirus effort. The returning doctors,
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