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One in 10 pre-school staff have tested positive for Covid-19

Nearly one in 10 nursery and pre-school staff have tested positive for Covid-19 in the ...

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Care providers urged to utilise Covid testing tech

Social care organisations have been urged to utilise Covid testing tech to focus resources on ...

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Health leaders hit back at newspaper care claims

NHS leaders have hit back at claims that elderly people were excluded from hospitals and ...

In Practice Social Care Management

Ruth Allen: government’s Covid response sidelined social care

Ruth Allen, the CEO at the British Association of Social Workers (BASW), reflects on the ...

Care News

Scottish care homes to get help with identifying risks earlier

A new web-based tool to allow care homes in Scotland to monitor coronavirus (COVID-19) trends ...

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Poor communication hampered pandemic response

Adult social care services struggled to deal with the coronavirus pandemic because of poor communication ...

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Care homes to get 90-minute coronavirus testing kits

Care homes and hospitals are to get rapid testing kits, capable of detecting COVID-19 and ...

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Two-thirds of disabled workers affected by coronavirus

Two thirds of people with disabilities have had their work affected by the coronavirus, according ...

Health News

Obesity can increase risk of COVID-19, PHE warns

Being obese or excessively overweight increases the risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19, ...

Health News

MPs warn against ‘virulent’ COVID-19 misinformation

Misinformation about COVID-19 has been allowed to spread ‘virulently’ across social media, according to a ...