NHS Business Services Authority’s (NHSBSA) latest statistics ‘Medicines used in Mental Health – England Quarterly Summary’ have been released today (10/12/2020), showing that 19.6 million antidepressant drugs
Read more...Colleagues from Brunelcare’s Deerhurst Care Home have become some of the first social care staff in the country to receive the Covid-19 vaccine.
Read more...Death rate continues to rise
Care providers today called for continued vigilance as they welcomed the news that the first people are being vaccinated against Covid-19.
Read more...New analysis published today by IPPR and IPPR North reveals how cuts to public health budgets have disproportionately hit the Midlands and North of England.
Read more...The biggest vaccine campaign in NHS history began this morning, as 90-year-old grandmother Margaret Keenan became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 jab following its clinical approval.
Read more...The Minister for Care, Helen Whately, has written to care homes outlining plans for how the first COVID-19 vaccine (Pfizer/BioNTech) will reach care home staff.
Read more...The Care Provider Alliance (CPA), the collective, national voice of adult social care providers in England), has welcomed the news of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine
Read more...637,379 participants from across the UK have now taken part in public health research into the effects of, and treatment for Covid-19 in just over eight months.
Read more...New research published today reveals the extent of isolation experienced by people with learning disabilities and autism across the country due to the coronavirus pandemic,…
Read more...The National Care Forum (NCF) has responded to the news that the government have approved the Covid vaccine and will be prioritising care staff, and a statement they have said
Read more...In response to today’s announcement about the approval of a COVID-19 vaccine, the Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG) has made the following statement:
Read more...Worries over visiting as death rates rise
Care providers are calling for urgent guidance over relative visiting after doubts were cast on the accuracy of tests.
Read more...Nearly one million people in the UK have dementia. People living with the most common form, Alzheimer’s disease, can experience difficulties working out where they are
Read more...Leading care sector figures are calling for a rethink on restricted movement between care settings as outlined in the Government’s Winter Plan.
Read more...More than two and a half million vulnerable people across England will be offered free Vitamin D supplements for the winter, the government has announced.
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