ALL adults over 50, the clinically vulnerable and health and social care workers have now been offered a life-saving covid jab, as the government prepares to move into the next phase
Read more...Responding to the scientific briefing on the AstraZeneca vaccine, Ruth Rankine, director of the NHS Confederation’s PCN Network, said: “The key message to take away from both the EU
Read more...Today’s Government announcement increasing the number of visitors care and nursing home residents can have has met with a cautious welcome from providers. Provider body…
Read more...Care home residents in England will be able to receive two visitors indoors from Monday 12 April as covid restrictions continue to be cautiously eased….
Read more...The National Care Forum (NCF) has called on the government to reverse its decision to restrict access to the national booking system for all care…
Read more...Residents at Royal Star & Garter’s three Homes have received their second Covid-19 vaccines. The doses were administered at the charity’s care homes at the…
Read more...“Dedicated and resourceful” care home staff across the East Midlands have been praised for overcoming barriers to assisting people during the first stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read more...Public Health England (PHE) analysis indicates that the COVID-19 vaccination programme prevented 6,100 deaths in those aged 70 and older in England up to the end of February.
Read more...Care home resident deaths involving Covid-19 in England and Wales have fallen to the lowest level since October 2020, according to the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) data.
Read more...Coronavirus infections in care home residents fell by 62% from five weeks after they received their first vaccine dose, Government-funded research has revealed.
Read more...Scientists working on a ground-breaking COVID-19 research study are urgently calling for more carers who caught the virus to volunteer to sign up and help.
Read more...The number of COVID-19 related deaths in care homes continues to decline sharply according to the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS)
Read more...Care home workers in England could be legally required to have a Covid-19 vaccination under plans being considered by the government.
Read more...Hundreds of thousands of the UK’s most vulnerable people could be set to benefit from innovative treatments that stop them catching COVID-19
Read more...Half of all adults in the UK have received their first dose of Covid-19 vaccine, the latest figures show.
The UK health services vaccinated a total of 26.8 million
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