Alzheimer’s Research UK has welcomed the publication of the UK government vision for the future of clinical research but says more funding will be needed to make it a reality.
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
Read more...The Supreme Court has this morning (March 19) dismissed appeals to pay hourly renumeration for sleep-in shifts.
Read more...A council has been accused of adding “insult to injury” by paying its own staff up to £2,200 more a year than they are willing to shell out for carers doing
Read more...As Covid-19 deaths in care and nursing homes continue to fall it remains vital that safeguards – including those around resumed visits – are maintained, providers said today.
Read more...The NHS in England could face a hidden waiting list of nearly six million people who have not come forward or been referred for treatment yet due
Read more...The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has released new guidance on care home visiting that allows each resident to have one regular indoor visitor.
Read more...But the weekly total keeps falling
Care providers today mourned the 30,000 lives that have been lost in care and nursing homes and prayed that the ongoing fall in Covid-19 fatalities continues.
Read more...The UK has updated its code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care staff to align with the World Health Organization (WHO)
Read more...The UK has updated its Code of Practice for the international recruitment of health and social care staff to align with the World Health Organization
Read more...Care home residents will be able to be visited indoors by a single named individual from the 8 March as part of the Prime Minister’s roadmap to ease lockdown restrictions.
Read more...British institutions the Premier League and the Beano, much loved author, artist and illustrator Charlie Mackesy and social media platforms Facebook and Instagram
Read more...…but call for social care reform to fund it
CARE CAMPAIGNERS today backed calls for hard-working care staff to be paid a minimum of £10 an hour to look after the country’s most vulnerable.
Read more...In response to the publication of the Government’s COVID Vaccine Uptake Plan and as the national target to have offered a first dose to the top four priority
Read more...Thousands more NHS patients who are hospitalised due to COVID-19 will be able to receive life-saving treatment tocilizumab, the government has announced.
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