Families should restrict their Christmas celebrations to enable care home residents to have visits in a “safer environment”, experts have warned. At a panel organised by the National Care Forum
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More than one in 10 care home staff say they are not receiving regular coronavirus tests, five months after a Government pledge, a survey has found. Some 11% of staff
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Queues of ambulances formed outside several hospitals in Northern Ireland as pressure continued to mount on the region’s over-capacity health service. The scenes unfolded as First Minister Arlene Foster participated
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Hospitals in Wales are almost full due to a surge in the number of patients with coronavirus, the director of the Welsh NHS Confederation has said. Darren Hughes warned that
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A new strain of coronavirus has been identified in southern England as tougher restrictions were imposed in London. The capital and parts of Essex and Hertfordshire will face Tier 3
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Care home residents in Wales will begin to be vaccinated from Wednesday, the country’s health minister has announced. Vaughan Gething said the first care homes to receive the jab will
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The first care home resident in Scotland to be vaccinated against coronavirus has said it was “wonderful” to get the jab before Christmas. Annie Innes, 90, was one of dozens
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A father-of-two who had to “beg” to get an MRI scan because of the Covid-19 crisis has died of cancer, his family have revealed. Sherwin Hall, 27, from Leeds, West
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The Crown Office is investigating 16 deaths at two care homes in Aberdeenshire. Reports have been received by the procurator fiscal about seven fatalities at Inchmarlo House Care Home, near
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A number of residents have died amid a Covid-19 cluster at a care home, the local health board has said. NHS Fife said that 35 residents and 32 staff at
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