Boris Johnson is facing renewed questions over his efforts to protect vulnerable care home residents from coronavirus after Labour used a new report to claim the sector was an ‘afterthought’
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MPs have voted to keep emergency coronavirus regulations linked to vulnerable youngsters despite warnings they introduced a “significant” relaxation of protections. Shadow education secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey (pictured) said the Government’s
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The number of deaths from coronavirus could have been halved if lockdown was introduced a week earlier, an expert who advised the Government on restrictions has said. Neil Ferguson, professor
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The “unfair and woefully out of date” social care sector must be radically reformed but not by making it free for all as part of the NHS, a think tank
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Doctors and campaigners have launched a High Court challenge against the Government over its refusal to hold an urgent public inquiry into PPE shortages. A claim for judicial review has
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The UK’s coronavirus death toll passed 50,000 and the country was warned to be braced for “many job losses” as the human and economic cost of the outbreak became clearer.
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Plans to overhaul social care in England and Wales could be stalled due to the coronavirus outbreak, the Government has suggested. Prime Minister Boris Johnson had pledged to announce changes
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A number of newly employed contact tracers have raised questions about the Government’s new programme for tracking coronavirus cases after reporting having nothing to do for days. As many as
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Problems in care homes could be exacerbated if many staff are asked to self-isolate as part of the NHS Test and Trace system, the chief executive of Care England has
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The Government is considerably short of its self-imposed target to test every care home patient for coronavirus by “early June”, with latest data suggesting fewer than one-in-four has received a
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