More than 400 deaths involving Covid-19 occurred each day in UK care homes at the height of the coronavirus outbreak, new analysis shows. There were more than 3,000 care home
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Health Secretary Jeane Freeman refused to say if the owners of a care home hit by a Covid-19 outbreak in which 10 elderly residents died would make a profit, after
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A charity is mounting a legal challenge over the Government’s guidance on family visits to care home residents during the coronavirus outbreak. John’s Campaign is seeking a judicial review of
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An initiative to stop the use of the continued prescribing of potentially harmful medicines to older patients will be trialled across hospitals in England. Half of older people admitted to
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People will be allowed to visit relatives and friends inside care homes in Wales, the Welsh Government has announced. Indoor visits to both adult and children’s care homes have been
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Restrictions have been placed on care homes across Tayside as authorities try to stem the spread of a coronavirus outbreak. Indoor visits to the premises are due to restart across
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People will be allowed to visit relatives and friends inside care homes in Wales next week if coronavirus conditions “remain favourable”, the Welsh Government has said. Indoor visits to care
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Government officials are not involved in decisions to discharge Covid-19 positive patients from hospitals to care homes, the First Minister has said. Nicola Sturgeon was pressed on the issue by
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Ethnic inequalities are “deeply entrenched” among the over-50s in England, new research has shown. Analysis by the Centre for Ageing Better, Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and University College
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It is a “national disgrace” that hundreds of thousands of people in supported living are not able to get regular coronavirus testing, a care sector leader has said. Community Integrated
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