With COVID-19 preventing care homes from accessing local amenities, the residents and team members at Fairburn Mews launched an initiative to visit 18 cafes in…
Read more...Concerns are growing among NHS leaders that in a matter of days their frontline staff could be made to pay for their own Covid-19 tests…
Read more...Vaccination-acquired immunity against Covid-19 significantly wanes after three months among elderly care home residents, indicating that regular booster jabs may be required for this “vulnerable”…
Read more...This is one of the concerns raised by the House of Lords Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee in its 33rd report of Session 2021-22 as it…
Read more...Responding to NHS England’s latest winter sitrep, Dr Layla McCay, director of policy at the NHS Confederation, said: “COVID-19 infection rates are rising, and as…
Read more...Stephen Parkinson, Senior Partner at law firm Kingsley Napley LLP and an expert in Public Inquiries, welcomes the draft Terms of Reference published by Baroness…
Read more...Social Care Day of Remembrance and Reflection is taking place on 17 March 2022, with a dedicated virtual event taking place on the day. A…
Read more...There is a “moral obligation” to provide more psychological support to care home staff as they continue to live with the impact of the COVID-19…
Read more...An Alzheimer’s Society poll has revealed that 70% disagree with the Government’s decision to scrap free lateral flow tests for care home visitors, while only…
Read more...The legal requirement for health and social care staff to be double jabbed will be removed from 15 March Regulations making COVID-19 vaccination a condition…
Read more...CARE leaders today condemned plans to make care and nursing home visitors pay for Covid-19 tests. The Independent Care Group (ICG) urged the Government to…
Read more...All Covid restrictions will end in England on Thursday and free mass testing will stop from 1 April. Prime Minister Boris Johnson told MPs the…
Read more...Research suggests that almost a third (32 of every 100) of older adults infected with COVID-19 in 2020 developed at least one new condition that…
Read more...The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has urged care home providers to follow government guidance on care home visits following the January lifting of restrictions. In…
Read more...Today the BMA, along with other leading bodies representing the nation’s healthcare professionals, has signed a joint statement1 expressing concern at the ongoing inequity in access…
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