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• Matt Hancock: NHS surcharge to be dropped for migrant health and care workers – video

  21-05-2020 19:58
  
  The government is to scrap the NHS surcharge for migrant health and care workers, Matt Hancock has confirmed. The health secretary said the coronavirus crisis had demonstrated the ‘enormous contribution’ people from overseas make to the health and social care sectors
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• Haringey council 'failed to safeguard disabled child from paedophile'

  21-05-2020 19:27
  
  Months of mishandling of case in ‘root and branch failure’ left brothers at risk , judge says
  A family court judge has heavily criticised a London council over its handling of a case in which it failed to safeguard a disabled child from a convicted paedophile, saying there was a “root and branch failure” of social work.The case involved two brothers, one severely disabled, whose mother had been groomed by a paedophile. Haringey council social workers failed to intervene,
  
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• Stroke rates among COVID-19 patients are low, but cases are more severe

  21-05-2020 18:46
  The rate of strokes in COVID-19 patients appears relatively low, but a higher proportion of those strokes are presenting in younger people and are often more severe compared to strokes in people who do not have the novel coronavirus, while globally rates for stroke hospitalizations and treatments are significantly lower than for the first part of 2019, according to new research.
  
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• Johnson forced to drop NHS surcharge for migrant health workers

  21-05-2020 18:02
  
  Downing Street bows to pressure from opposition and backbench Tories amid crisisCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDowning Street has bowed to concerted pressure from the opposition and Conservative backbenchers to scrap the NHS surcharge for migrant health workers.After backbenchers including the former health secretary Jeremy Hunt criticised the government’s position, a No 10 spokesman said Boris Johnson had asked the Home Office and the Department for Heal
  
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• Anger over reported delay to social care reform

  21-05-2020 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Reports that the Government had plans in place to reform social care BEFORE the coronavirus pandemic but delayed them until autumn have been described as a scandal. The BBC has said that the Government was looking at social care reform right up until March’s budget but then shelved plans until later this year. It reports […]
  
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• Tory MPs call for end to 'immoral' surcharge for migrant health workers

  21-05-2020 15:36
  
  Senior Conservatives urge Boris Johnson to show ‘generosity of spirit’ in crisis
  Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBoris Johnson is facing a growing rebellion from his own MPs and senior party figures over his decision to keep the NHS surcharge for migrant health and social care workers, as No 1o insisted it would not change course.Three influential Commons committee chairs have backed calls for the fee to be scrapped, or waived, including William Wrag
  
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• Gravesend residents commemorate VE Day 2020

  21-05-2020 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Residents of Watling Court, Dene Holm and Edward Moore House paid tribute to the 75th anniversary of victory in Europe on Friday 8th May.   With slightly different celebrations planned due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, residents of our residential care homes in Northfleet and Gravesend were still able to get into the spirit of […]
  
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• Public-spirited Wellington businesses come to the rescue

  21-05-2020 06:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Public-spirited local businesses have responded to a plea for help circulated by a local dementia care home with donations of face-masks, goggles, visors, gloves, shoe covers and antibacterial spray and wipes for use by residents and staff. Bonnie Frear, deputy manager of Camelot House and Lodge, wrote to neighbouring organisations requesting their support in the […]
  
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