More than one in 10 care home staff say they are not receiving regular coronavirus tests, five months after a Government pledge, a survey has found. Some 11% of staff
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One of Scotland’s largest independent care home operators is expanding following a £41 million backing from HSBC UK. Inverness-based, Meallmore Limited will use the funding to purchase two new sites
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Care home residents in Wales will begin to be vaccinated from Wednesday, the country’s health minister has announced. Vaughan Gething said the first care homes to receive the jab will
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The first care home resident in Scotland to be vaccinated against coronavirus has said it was “wonderful” to get the jab before Christmas. Annie Innes, 90, was one of dozens
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The Crown Office is investigating 16 deaths at two care homes in Aberdeenshire. Reports have been received by the procurator fiscal about seven fatalities at Inchmarlo House Care Home, near
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A number of residents have died amid a Covid-19 cluster at a care home, the local health board has said. NHS Fife said that 35 residents and 32 staff at
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A communications campaign is being developed to encourage care home staff to have the coronavirus vaccine when it is offered to them. Scottish Care, which represents the independent care home
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Campaigners are threatening the Government with legal action over guidance which they claim imposes a “blanket ban” on elderly care home residents making visits to family and friends at Christmas
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Care home providers have appealed for patience after the Government said a mass roll-out of rapid result tests would enable residents to receive visitors by Christmas. More than a million
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Doctors may have made blanket decisions about “do not resuscitate orders” without the input of patients or their families during the first wave of the pandemic, the care watchdog has
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