A resident of a retirement home in Shrewsbury died after testing positive for Covid-19 on Friday. In a statement, a spokeswoman for McCarthy and Stone, owners of the Summerfield Place
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Elderly people in the UK will not be asked to stay at home, Scotland’s national clinical director has said. Professor Jason Leitch (pictured) said this group will be asked to
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Visiting vulnerable people should be avoided unless you are absolutely convinced that your own health and hygiene are good enough, a professor has advised. The advice comes after it was
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Six care home residents have been diagnosed with coronavirus. Highgate Care Home in North Lanarkshire said it had put in place “strict infection control measures” after it identified the positive
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Barchester Care Homes, which runs more than 200 care homes in the UK and has more than 11,000 residents, sent a letter to residents, patients and visitors saying “as a
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Care homes could face “very worrying staffing gaps” if the coronavirus outbreak worsens, a think tank has warned. Helen Buckingham, director of strategy at the Nuffield Trust, raised concerns that
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A coronavirus pandemic would be “quite useful” as it would take out hospital bed blockers, a former Scottish government official has said. Professor June Andrews said Covid-19 would allow hospitals
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Patients with memory issues could be checked for Alzheimer’s disease with a blood test at their doctor’s surgery, a study has suggested. Researchers in the USA measured blood levels of
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Welsh social care regulator, Social Care Wales, has launched a new dashboard showing local authority spend on social care. This new dashboard is available in English and Welsh, as part
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The Northern Ireland Social Care Council (NISCC) in partnership with the Public Health Agency have announced they are bringing the Virtual Dementia Tour to Northern Ireland. Facilitated by Training 2 Care
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