A children’s charity has reported a 1,100% increase in applications for its emergency cash fund during the first week of the coronavirus lockdown. Aberlour Child Care Trust said many families
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There have now been more deaths related to Covid-19 in care homes than hospitals in Scotland, according to latest figures. National Records of Scotland (NRS) statistics show there have been
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Coronavirus test kits and protective equipment are among the medical supplies to be delivered to an island via drone. Health authorities in Argyll and Bute, where the trial is taking
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One of the UK’s largest care home providers will now give full pay to workers self-isolating as they wait to be tested for coronavirus. HC-One staff members were told of
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Health and social care workers should be tested “routinely” and on a “mass scale” for coronavirus regardless of whether they have symptoms, according to a panel of experts. Specialists in
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Private care home staff in Scotland are “terrified” to be tested for Covid-19 due to fears they will suffer financially due to self-isolation, a union leader has claimed. Speaking on
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The Scottish Government is to introduce new powers to intervene in failing care homes during the coronavirus pandemic, Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has announced. Speaking at the government’s daily briefing,
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Scotland has passed its coronavirus peak and should get its economy up and running before a second wave in winter, according to scientists. Professor Carl Heneghan and Jason Oke, of
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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said deaths in care homes are not inevitable as new figures show they account for a third of all Covid-19 fatalities in Scotland, a rise
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A number of residents at a care home in Edinburgh have died after contracting suspected coronavirus. The BBC reported that 13 people at Guthrie House care home (pictured) have died.
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