The damage that care home visitors wearing face masks is doing to the welfare of residents is outweighing the protection they offer, a care home group has said. The need
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Compulsory Covid-19 vaccinations for care home staff in England have been approved by MPs – despite them not seeing a key document detailing the policy’s impact. From the autumn, anyone
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The long-term detainment of autistic people and individuals with learning disabilities must be banned, a cross-party committee of MPs has said. Former health secretary Jeremy Hunt, who chairs the Commons
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A ground-breaking report from Community Integrated Care (CIC) has found that many frontline social care workers are undervalued by as much as 39% – nearly £7000 per year – in
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Domiciliary care services continued to grow during the pandemic according to data from Skills for Care’s latest ‘The size and structure of the adult social care sector and workforce in
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Mandatory vaccination against coronavirus of care home staff is “unnecessary, disproportionate, and misguided”, academics have warned. Government plans to make Covid-19 jabs a condition of deployment for care home staff
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Care home residents are picking up their boxing gloves as the train for their own version of the Olympics. With just weeks to go before the Tokyo 2020 games get
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The limit on how many named visitors a care home resident can receive will be lifted at the final stage of the road map out of lockdown, but some protective
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Care home visiting is unlikely to “completely go back to normal” following the final stage of the road map out of lockdown, the care minister has said. There will still
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Around one in four staff in older adult care homes in England eligible to receive a Covid-19 vaccine have not had both jabs, new figures suggest. A total of 73.9%
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