An emergency appeal has been launched to help millions of unpaid carers who are supporting family and friends during the Covid-19 crisis. Carers Trust says there are around seven million
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Anger over lack of supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE) for NHS workers is growing as a desperately needed consignment of 400,000 gowns was delayed. The Government has been under
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Doctors and nurses will be asked to work without full-length gowns and to reuse items when treating coronavirus patients ahead of expected shortages of protective garments. The Government has been
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Vulnerable people including transplant patients and cancer sufferers have had food parcels stolen from their doorsteps, police have said. Shielded people who have been deemed those most at risk if
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Care home bosses have asked for NHS volunteers to be redirected to help them deal with coronavirus. The sector has complained of being “ignored” amid claims the 750,000 people who
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Care providers are reporting hundreds of coronavirus-linked deaths and several thousand cases in up to three quarters of their homes, suggesting the virus has spread further than the Government’s estimate.
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A total of 14 residents at two local authority-run care homes in Portsmouth have died after showing symptoms of Covid-19. Portsmouth City Council confirmed that nine residents of nursing care
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Deliveries of personal protective equipment (PPE) were “paltry” and became “haphazard” as the coronavirus outbreak worsened, according to a leaked letter from social care bosses. The letter to the Government
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More than seven in 10 healthcare workers do not think the Government has done enough to protect them from Covid-19, according to a new poll. The survey of 996 UK
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Public Health England has said it is working to support a nursing home where 24 residents have died during the coronavirus outbreak, including eight who tested positive for Covid-19. Staffordshire
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