Unmet need is “paralysing” health and social care services and the requirement for frontline staff to be vaccinated against coronavirus must be abandoned, a social care boss has warned. The
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More than one in 10 care home staff positions in England were unfilled at the end of 2021, figures suggest. The staff vacancy rate “continued to steadily increase” throughout last
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High street chain Boots has committed to maintaining stocks of vital end-of-life medicines at more than of its 2,000 pharmacies as part of a new service to support terminally-ill patients.
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Unvaccinated healthcare staff in England face being sacked without an exit payment, an official document shows. Frontline staff must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 with two jabs by April 1
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Thousands of care home staff were off work in the last week due to Covid, according to new figures released by the Scottish Labour Party. The data, from Public Health
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Sajid Javid has dismissed suggestions that he should tone down his criticism of people who choose not to be vaccinated. The Health Secretary (pictured) said those people eligible for a
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Tory MPs have urged ministers to U-turn on their policy of sacking frontline health and social care staff if they refuse to have Covid-19 vaccinations. Former chief whip Mark Harper
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A London hospital could lose 1,000 staff members if they do not get vaccinated, its chief executive has acknowledged after a doctor challenged the Health Secretary about rules on mandatory
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Holyrood Health Secretary Humza Yousaf has said Scotland is not considering further reducing its quarantine period after UK Government Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi backed dropping England’s isolation from seven days
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Social care isolation rules have been relaxed following concerns over staff being off sick and problems discharging patients from hospital. Previously, if a care home had at least two coronavirus
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