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Care room with a view: UK hotels offer respite to non-Covid patients

03-05-2020 18:08

With no tourists, some are plugging the gap between hospital and social careCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageGuests rave about the sea views from the best rooms at Newquay’s Carnmarth hotel, looking out over Fistral beach, one of Cornwall’s finest surfing destinations. Even out of season, a double can cost £150 a night and must normally be booked months in advance.Now, though, the panorama is being enjoyed by a different kind of guest after the

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03-05-2020 10:54 via feedproxy.google.com

Dr. Sarah Jarvis, Dr. Radha Modgil, Dr. Aaron Balick, mental health campaigner Natasha Devon, the Pilates PT Hollie Grant, are all among the health and wellbeing professionals who have come together for the UK’s first ‘virtual’ wellbeing festival, which has been launched in response to COVID-19, to help people better cope in these extraordinary times. […]

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UK lockdown must not be lifted until Covid-19 transmission is understood, say scientists

03-05-2020 08:41

Studies into spread of the disease will centre on those working in the health and social care sectors as cases continue to riseCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBritish scientists are racing to try to answer fundamental questions about the Covid-19 virus and its transmission before the lifting of the current national lockdown is approved by the government in the near future. Researchers say relaxing social distancing should occur only once it is understood why new

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Misallocated NHS resources fuelled spread of virus in care homes, say bosses

03-05-2020 08:19

Senior figures fear that inadequate support and equipment caused sector to plunge into crisisCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA failure to provide care homes with enough NHS expertise and hospital equipment has exacerbated the growing coronavirus crisis among their residents, senior care figures have warned.Thousands of deaths within homes have come alongside spare intensive care capacity in hospitals, raising concerns in the social care sector that resources hav

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The Observer view on care home deaths from Covid-19 | Observer editorial

03-05-2020 07:00

Unless we properly fund our care homes and their invaluable workers, the shaming death toll will continue to rise“I have never written so many death notifications in such a short time,” a care home manager who lost 23 residents to coronavirus in just two weeks told the Guardian last month. “Every member of staff is lost. One day, a resident was walking around with a mild temperature. I went home and the next morning they were dead.”Some of the hardest-to-hear stories of t

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