Around 30,000 NHS staff are self-isolating or off work due to coronavirus, the organisation’s chief executive has said. NHS boss Sir Simon Stevens said the numbers underlined the need to
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A care home has been inundated with interest from others around the UK after it built its own sealed visiting pod to allow families to safely see their loved ones.
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The Scottish Government is exploring whether a public inquiry into care home deaths during the coronavirus pandemic could cover all four nations of the UK, Nicola Sturgeon has revealed. Scotland’s
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A former Coronation Street actress, whose mother was arrested after they took her grandmother from a care home, has said she does not believe they put other residents at risk.
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Charities supporting the clinically vulnerable have accused the Government of causing “untold amounts of stress”, after new guidance on shielding was published just hours ahead of the start of a
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A total of six residents have died at a care home amid a coronavirus outbreak. The operator of Caledonian Court care home in Larbert (pictured) said the deaths occurred in
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Opposition parties at Holyrood have united to demand the Scottish Government holds an immediate public inquiry into coronavirus deaths in care homes. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has repeatedly said such
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An NHS hospital trust had to send home six staff who reported Covid-19 symptoms after car-sharing without masks. The University Hospitals of North Midlands Trust (UHNM) said it had reminded
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The Government has come under renewed criticism over the paucity of its guidance on safe visits to care homes as England enters its second national lockdown. Campaign groups and charities
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The NHS Test and Trace system provided more than 7,000 people with the wrong dates for the start and end of their self-quarantines, it has been confirmed. A Department of
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