More than 137,000 people in the UK have received the first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in the first week of the largest vaccination programme in British history.
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By Louise Morse, Media and External Relations manager with the Pilgrims’ Friend Society (www.pilgrimsfriend.org.uk)
When my granddaughter came home for the weekend from university
The number of COVID related deaths in care homes in England and Wales has fallen for the first time in three months. The total number of deaths registered in England and Wale
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Staff and residents at Banstead-based care home The Royal Alfred Seafarers’ Society were feeling the festive cheer after a visit from Shetland pony Blossom and her furry friends as part of an animal therapy session.
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The CQC is working with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), local authorities and individual care providers to provide assurance of safe and high-quality care in designated settings
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The latest data on university admissions published by UCAS shows record numbers of students accepted places to study nursing and midwifery in England this year.
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Award winning complex care provider, Cornerstone Healthcare, has been named as the top-performing provider of advanced neuro-behavioural care in a market report.
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A residential care home for adults with learning disabilities and physical disabilities in Colchester is getting into the Christmas spirit with activities and festive fun for residents during the holiday season.
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Residents and staff at Beechgrove Care Home in Lanark were some of the first Lanarkshire citizens to receive the Covid-19 vaccination.
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Residents at a Wellington care home have voted to name their new pub bar The Windsor Arms in memory of actress Barbara Windsor who died last week.
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An extraordinary colleague at HC-One’s Kings Park care home in Ashton-Under-Lyne, Manchester has had all of her hair cut off, to raise money for a charity close to her and the homes heart.
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By Lucy Law, senior HR manager at Hugh Jones Solicitors (www.hughjonessolicitors.co.uk)
The care sector has been at the epicentre of the Covid-19 pandemic – thrust under the spotlight of the world’s media as it tackled an ever
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By Steve Morgan, Partnership Director, Agilisys (www.agilisys.co.uk)
Covid-19 has turned the daily rhythms and routines of everybody upside down, not least of which those within the nursing and residential care home sector
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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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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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