A higher proportion of deaths of people with learning disabilities involved coronavirus than the proportion of care home residents dying with it, over eight weeks, new data suggests. Some 467
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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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A care home manager has described the difficulties in sourcing personal protective equipment (PPE) as a new London-wide procurement scheme is launched to provide kit for frontline workers at risk
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Coronavirus in care homes will be thrust into the spotlight again amid reports ministers knew a month ago that temporary workers were helping spread the killer disease. Care chiefs will
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Over 70s have been urged to take “simple steps” to safeguard their emotional wellbeing during lockdown. Age UK said that the sudden changes to the livelihoods of older people have
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has said he hopes for a Royal Commission into social care after the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking to BBC News, Justin Welby said he hoped there would
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The Government needs to invest money in children’s services to stop families reaching crisis point after coronavirus, a group of leading charities have warned. In a joint report by Barnardo’s,
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Residents in long-term care facilities account for up to half of coronavirus-related deaths in Europe, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. Hans Kluge, WHO regional director for Europe, said
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A social care worker has died after contracting coronavirus, her local authority has said. Sharon Scanlon, 58, was a member of Powys County Council’s adult social care team in Mid
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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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