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• New drug helps to preserve brain cells for a time after stroke

  20-02-2020 21:49
  After 50 years of research and the testing of over 1,000 drugs, there is new hope for preserving brain cells for a time after stroke. Treating acute ischemic stroke patients with an experimental neuroprotective drug, combined with a surgical procedure to remove the clot improves outcomes as shown by clinical trial results.
  
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• Lower dose of newer clot-buster may be appropriate for some stroke patients

  20-02-2020 21:49
  In a comparison of 0.25mg/kg and 0.40mg/kg doses of the newer and more convenient clot-busting medication tenecteplase, there was no advantage in increasing the dose above 0.25mg/kg in stroke patients who planned to have mechanical clot retrieval. In addition, administering tenecteplase may decrease the need for mechanical clot removal.
  
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• An unworkable and costly immigration plan | Letters

  20-02-2020 19:36
  
  Head of the NHS Confederation, Niall Dickson, and Dr Richard Turner worry about the impact of the proposed points-based system on the social care sector, while Derrick Joad says it will be a bureaucratic nightmare and David Head says it will make it harder to recruit talent from overseas. Plus letters from David Reed, David Moores, Martyn Taylor, Angela Boyd and Stephen ThomasOn the face of it, the government’s immigration policy shows continued support for NHS recruitment, with a lowered
  
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• Social care is crumbling, and Johnson’s immigration plans will only make it worse | Polly Toynbee

  20-02-2020 18:27
  
  Without cheap labour from overseas, wages will have to steeply increase if the prime minister wants to ‘fix’ the systemAnother one bites the dust. The fourth biggest provider of home care for the frail, the Mears Group, with 30 branches in the UK, is abandoning its domiciliary care services. “We’re not the first and certainly won’t be the last,” says Alan Long, the executive director. Social care is collapsing because too few people are willing to work gruelli
  
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• Two weeks of doing care work left me physically and mentally exhausted | Maz Halima

  20-02-2020 16:39
  
  People working in this sector play an integral part in maintaining a civil society. That’s not low-skilled workIt’s been a decade since my first night shift as a care worker. It lasted from 8pm to 8am, but two-thirds of the way through I was ready to walk out. I had imagined it would be like when I was a child and had visited a nursing home with my mother, who was caring for the elderly. It was all custard creams and blankets on the floor by the telly. That first shift was a gruellin
  
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• Care workers like me aren't low skilled – these immigration rules will risk lives | Karolina Gerlich

  20-02-2020 12:23
  
  The proposed salary requirements for non-English workers will cripple the care industry. The consequences could be terrifyingI’ve been a full-time care worker in this country for eight years. People’s wellbeing is at the heart of what I do. I have the privilege of supporting some amazing people and their families, using a wide range of clinical, emotional and academic skills.But under the new immigration rules proposed by the government, I would not have been able to enter the countr
  
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• Care workers like me aren't low skilled – these immigration rules will risk lives

  20-02-2020 12:23
  
  The proposed salary requirements for non-English workers will cripple the care industry. The consequences could be terrifyingI’ve been a full-time care worker in this country for eight years. People’s wellbeing is at the heart of what I do. I have the privilege of supporting some amazing people and their families, using a wide range of clinical, emotional and academic skills.But under the new immigration rules proposed by the government, I would not have been able to enter the countr
  
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• Jewish Care raises £70,000 at Business Breakfast

  20-02-2020 09:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  More than 200 people gathered for Jewish Care’s Business Breakfast at Mansion House, raising £70,000 for the charity’s core services. The former Chancellor commented that the Jewish community “looks out for each other” and that we have much that we can teach other communities in the UK about how to help each other. Others present […]
  
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