Government Scraps Care Home Isolation Rule for Low Risk Visits Out
Care home residents will be able to leave their home for “low risk” visits without having to self-isolate for 14 days on their return the…
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Health
60 Million Pfizer/Biontech Vaccines Secured For UK Booster Programme
An extra 60 million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine have been secured by the UK government to help support the booster Covid-19 vaccination programme beginning from the Autumn.
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National Care Forum Adds IHSCM Member Benefit
The National Care Forum has created a new partnership with The Institute of Health and Social Care Management (IHSCM) for the benefit of its members.
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Celebrities Join Forces With NHS And Public Health England To Encourage Cancer Checks
Sir Andrew Strauss, the ex-England cricket captain who lost his wife to lung cancer, has backed an NHS and Public Health England campaign urging people to get checked if they test negative for Covid-19
Read more...Over 400,000 Social Care Staff Not Vaccinated, Research Suggests
Over 400,000 of England’s adult social care workforce have not received a coronavirus vaccine, according to research.
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Stunning New Photographs Show The People Behind The National Vaccination Effort
A series of unseen photographs capturing the size and scale of the UK-wide vaccination programme have been published by the UK government today ahead of a new campaign urging under-50s to get the jab.
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Veterans Celebrate St George’s Day at Royal Star & Garter
Veterans have celebrated St George’s Day at Royal Star & Garter’s Homes in Solihull, Surbiton and High Wycombe. They enjoyed music, crafts, quizzes and delicious…
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Portishead Care Home Celebrates 20th Rear Anniversary
A Portishead care home has celebrated 20 years of delivering care in the community this month with a virtual party. Staff and residents at Petersfield…
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Coronavirus No Longer The Main Cause Of Deaths In England And Wales
COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in England and Wales in March behind dementia and heart disease according to data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS)
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Growing Demands For Jabs For Jobs In Wales
There are growing calls for care home workers in Wales to have a Covid-19 jab as a condition of their employment.
Read more...10 Million People In UK Receive Second Dose Of Covid-19 Vaccine
Over 10 million people in the UK have received their second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Health services across the UK have now administered a total of 43,084,487 million vaccines between 8 December and 18 April
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UK University Project Could Boost Arthritis Drug Availability
A project led by the University of Edinburgh and global biotech company FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies UK (FDB) could make effective drugs more easily available to…
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Combination of Hearing and Vision Problems Linked to Dementia Risk
Researchers in Korea have found that people with both vision and hearing problems are more likely to experience cognitive decline and develop dementia than those…
Read more...Reform of Social Care “Doomed” Unless Issues of Fragile Provider Market are Addressed
A report from the Nuffield Trust warns that years of delay to social care reform and a fragmented market has left provider services unstable and…
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UK and EU Risk Act of Self-Harm Unless They Lift Vaccine Patents
UN Human Rights Commissioner and former Irish President, Mary Robinson, has called on the UK and the EU to support a waiver of intellectual property…
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