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• UK care home bosses call for help from medics as death toll grows

  20-04-2020 19:35
  
  Five of the largest care home providers have now recorded a total of at least 1,052 deathsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDoctors and nurses must urgently be deployed to fight coronavirus in care homes, care bosses have said, as the largest operators announced sharp rises in their death tolls.Care UK, which runs 122 homes in England and Scotland, revealed a 65% increase in deaths in just four days and said the virus had reached 70% of its homes. Four Seasons Hea
  
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• Care providers to book appointments for their staff to be tested for COVID-19

  20-04-2020 19:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  On behalf of the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC), the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has been contacting adult social care providers to book appointments for their staff to be tested for COVID-19. Since 10 April, 24,590 locations have been contacted and 12,422 appointments have been booked for staff. Working with Public Health England […]
  
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• At least 100 UK healthcare workers have died from coronavirus, figures show

  20-04-2020 17:53
  
  Concerns grow over lack of PPE for NHS workers on the frontline as milestone reachedUK health workers who have died from Covid-19Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAt least 100 NHS staff and social care workers have died of coronavirus, figures show, amid growing concerns about a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) for those working on the frontline during the coronavirus pandemic.The number of nurses, doctors, porters and members of other professions who h
  
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• Autoimmunity plays a role in Parkinson's disease, study suggests

  20-04-2020 14:42
  A new study adds increasing evidence that Parkinson's disease is partly an autoimmune disease. In fact, the researchers report that signs of autoimmunity can appear in Parkinson's disease patients years before their official diagnosis.
  
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• Sanders Senior Living providing meals for vulnerable people during COVID-19 crisis

  20-04-2020 14:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chefs of private residential care group, Sanders Senior Living, have begun to produce an extra 200 hot meals every week in an effort to help the vulnerable during the coronavirus crisis.   The recently established and expanding care home group, derived from the successful Runwood Homes organisation, consists of two services; Claridge Place in Solihull […]
  
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• Baking cakes to say thank you to key workers

  20-04-2020 09:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  The manager of a Bridgwater specialist dementia care home has been ‘very touched’ by the arrival of some home-made cakes, baked especially for herself and her staff team by a young neighbour to salute them for the way they are supporting residents at Avalon Nursing Home during the coronavirus crisis. Sarah Patten, manager of Avalon, […]
  
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• Morrisons donate Easter eggs to Canterbury care home

  20-04-2020 06:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Canterbury’s branch of Morrisons store brought some Easter joy to Connors House Residential Care Home this week, as they donated 100 Easter eggs to staff and residents.   Keen to keep them smiling during the Coronarvius pandemic, the store kindly dropped off enough Easter eggs for everyone on 8th April, ahead of the long Bank […]
  
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