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• Testing programme for social care set to remain chaotic as the sector asks even more tests

  19-05-2020 21:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Despite the government’s efforts to develop a testing programme for social care, the testing arrangements remain chaotic, there is no reliable timescale for getting the test results and there are simply not enough tests prioritised for social care. The announcement yesterday, that everyone aged over five in the UK with symptoms can now be tested […]
  
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• UK government urged to scrap £624 NHS charge for migrant care workers

  19-05-2020 21:12
  
  Politicians and health bodies say exemption for foreign medics must extend to all healthcare staffCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePoliticians and health professionals have united in their call on the government to scrap the NHS surcharge for migrant care workers coming from outside the European Economic Area.The current surcharge is £400 per year and is set to rise to £624 in October. Continue reading...
  
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• Steve Bell on Johnson, Hancock and protecting care homes — cartoon

  19-05-2020 21:08
  
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• UK coronavirus: George Eustice urges furloughed workers to pick fruit; death toll rises by 545 – as it happened

  19-05-2020 20:27
  
  Official total now at to 35,341; UK facing ‘severe recession the likes of which we haven’t seen’, says Rishi SunakExcess deaths in UK reached almost 55,000 in early May, says ONSLabour axes autumn party conferenceChildren in England back to school before contact tracing app rolled outHome test kits run out as eligibility list is expandedGlobal coronavirus updates - live7.18pm BST Speaking at Downing Street’s daily press conference, the environment secretary, George Eustic
  
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• The Guardian view on care work: a vocation that has been betrayed | Editorial

  19-05-2020 20:05
  
  The government’s mismanagement of the Covid-19 emergency in residential homes has exposed deeper issues of neglect and false priorities The litany of government failures on social care during the Covid-19 emergency has become grimly familiar. But the mistakes bear repetition, as the latest figures record that close to 15,000 care home residents have died in England and Wales from the disease.There is clear evidence that care homes were pressured into accommodating discharged hospital patie
  
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• UK coronavirus live: George Eustice urges furloughed workers to pick fruit; death toll rises by 545

  19-05-2020 19:04
  
  Official total now at to 35,341; UK facing ‘severe recession the likes of which we haven’t seen’, says Rishi SunakExcess deaths in UK reached almost 55,000 in early May, says ONSChildren in England back to school before contact tracing app rolled outHome test kits run out as eligibility list is expandedExplained: how five-year-olds should be tested for coronavirusGlobal coronavirus updates - live5.55pm BST MSPs have voted to repeal controversial measures which gave the Scottish
  
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• UK coronavirus live: George Eustice takes daily briefing as death toll rises by 545 to 35,341

  19-05-2020 18:23
  
  UK facing ‘severe recession the likes of which we haven’t seen’, says chancellor Rishi SunakExcess deaths in UK reached almost 55,000 in early May, says ONSChildren in England back to school before contact tracing app rolled outHome test kits run out as eligibility list is expandedExplained: how five-year-olds should be tested for coronavirusGlobal coronavirus updates - live5.23pm BST Q: You say you are inspired by contact tracing in South Korea. Do you regret the decision to a
  
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• UK coronavirus live: country facing 'severe recession likes of which we haven't seen', says Rishi Sunak

  19-05-2020 16:34
  
  Overall deaths in England and Wales in week up to 8 May were down for the third week in a row, at 12,657Excess deaths in UK reached almost 55,000 in early May, says ONSChildren in England back to school before contact tracing app rolled outHome test kits run out as eligibility list is expandedExplained: how five-year-olds should be tested for coronavirusGlobal coronavirus updates - live3.34pm BST At the Lords committee hearing Sunak said that the longer the recession went on, the more likely the
  
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• The NHS surcharge shows what the Tories really think of key workers | Maya Goodfellow

  19-05-2020 16:17
  
  By asking them to pay twice for healthcare, the government is betraying the very people it applauds so publicly
  Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageClap for them, then charge them. This is the how the Conservatives treat migrant key workers. For all the admiration and thanks heaped upon these workers during the coronavirus pandemic, the government has refused to scrap the NHS immigration surcharge. The majority of non-EU migrants, including those who work in the NHS
  
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• MPs hear why Hong Kong had no Covid-19 care home deaths

  19-05-2020 16:00
  
  Prof Terry Lum tells of strict infection control measures that were ignored in the UKCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHong Kong has recorded zero deaths in care homes from Covid-19 by employing strict infection control measures that were ignored in the UK, MPs were told on Tuesday as the death toll from the virus in English and Welsh care homes reached almost 15,000.Despite sharing a border with China, Prof Terry Lum, head of social care policy at Hong Kong Unive
  
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• Clare in the Community: how to hold a Zoom muting

  19-05-2020 16:00
  
  Clare catches up on the latest drama Continue reading...
  
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• UK coronavirus live: excess deaths reached almost 55,000 in early May, says ONS

  19-05-2020 13:58
  
  Overall deaths in England and Wales in week up to 8 May were down for the third week in a row, at 12,657Children in England to return to school before contact tracing app rolled outJobless claims soar by nearly 70% in AprilCoronavirus latest: at a glanceGlobal coronavirus updates - live 12.52pm BST In the Commons, the health secretary, Matt Hancock, has been pressed over the government’s “slow” handling of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in care homes.As Office for National
  
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• Huddersfield resident celebrates her 100th birthday saying ‘there is no secret to a long life, I am simply blessed!’

  19-05-2020 08:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Diana Lytle has celebrated her centenary birthday at Greenacres care home in Huddersfield. Staff at the home made sure that Diana enjoyed a special day despite their original party plans being cancelled due to the coronavirus isolation guidelines.   With the sun shining, Diana enjoyed a picnic style afternoon tea with some of her closest friends from the Meltham […]
  
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• Leeds care home honours World War two veteran on VE Day

  19-05-2020 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Second World War veteran living in a Leeds care home was honoured during a special celebration to mark the 75th anniversary of VE day celebrations. Sergeant Stanley Richardson, 95, celebrated with fellow residents and care staff at Anchor’s Primrose Court care home on Orchard Way. Stanley, who served in the 1st Battalion, the Duke […]
  
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