Around 1,800 healthcare staff in Northern Ireland are currently off work due to Covid 19, MLAs have been told. Paul Cavanagh, the interim director of planning and commissioning with Northern
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The Welsh Government says it “regrets” the move to relax quarantine requirements for EU and US visitors to England, but added it would be “ineffective” to have different rules for
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Extra ICU beds are being made available in Belfast as hospitals struggle to cope with a surge in Covid-19 admissions. Six beds for Belfast health trust patients are being put
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A woman has claimed that her mother-in-law’s treatment in a care home during the Covid-19 pandemic was “tantamount to torture”, and that they were not told of her worsening condition.
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Key workers in critical roles in Scotland will be able to avoid self-isolation after close contact with coronavirus if they are fully vaccinated and are tested daily, First Minister Nicola
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Emergency measures to protect food supplies will see thousands of workers at up to 500 critical sites potentially avoid the need to self-isolate if identified as a contact of a
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A “very narrow” list of sectors whose workers will be exempt from isolation rules will be published on Thursday, the Business Secretary has said as the Government struggles to contain
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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has today published data showing death notifications involving COVID-19 received from individual care homes between 10 April 2020 and 31 March 2021. This is accompanied by their CQC Insight
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Further planned surgeries have been cancelled as a health board’s three acute hospitals experience unprecedented levels of pressure. NHS Lanarkshire said that increased Covid-19 cases, staff shortages due to annual
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Around 40,000 care home staff risk being lost as a result of introducing compulsory Covid-19 vaccinations in England and could cost the industry £100 million to replace, according to the
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