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• Why shut nurses out of decision-making? | Letter

  27-05-2020 18:55
  
  Jane Salvage, a fellow of the Royal College of Nursing, asks why nurses have been rendered invisible in the management of the Covid-19 pandemicNurses are part of the invisible army keeping hospitals, care homes, hospices and community services going against great odds. Every week we are applauded on doorsteps and candles are put in windows. On International Nurses Day, Boris Johnson said: “We owe you more than words can say.” So why is the nursing perspective mostly ignored in decisi
  
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• Clues to COVID-19 in the brain uncovered in new study

  27-05-2020 16:50
  A study reviewing neuroimaging and neurological symptoms in patients with COVID-19 may shed light on the virus's impact on the central nervous system.
  
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• Text message tells vulnerable people in UK they are dropped from shielding list

  27-05-2020 16:46
  
  Outcry after people told they would lose government support without doctors being able to talk to them firstCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePeople with cancer, liver disease or severe asthma have been dropped from the UK government’s coronavirus shielding list by text message before their doctors have been able to speak to them.The decision to remove people with various health conditions from the shielding programme has caused upset. The text also informed
  
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• Cancer, transplant and asthma patients axed from shielding list by text message

  27-05-2020 16:46
  
  Outcry after people told they would lose government support without doctors being able to talk to them firstCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePeople with cancer, liver disease or severe asthma have been dropped from the UK government’s coronavirus shielding list by text message before their doctors have been able to speak to them.The decision to remove people with various health conditions from the shielding programme has caused upset. The text also informed
  
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• Phone texts notify cancer, transplant and asthma patients they are off shielding list

  27-05-2020 16:39
  
  MPs furious at UK health department as people with chronic disease lose support prior to any GP contactCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePeople with cancer, liver disease or severe asthma have been dropped from the UK government’s coronavirus shielding list by text message before their doctors have been able to speak to them.The decision to remove people with various health conditions from the shielding programme has caused upset. The text also informed peop
  
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• University of Kent technicians donate vital PPE to local care homes

  27-05-2020 08:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a bid to support the local community, technicians at Canterbury’s University of Kent found a new way to put their printers to good use, and support the community through the pandemic.   The University of Kent Technicians have been putting their 3D printing technology at the University to good use, printing prototype face shields. […]
  
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• 90-year-old care home resident tells of her joy after being able to see her husband

  27-05-2020 07:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  A 90-year-old care home resident from Cumbria has told of her joy after being able to see her husband again after over a month thanks to the donation of iPads to care homes.   Gwenie, who is 90, hadn’t been able to see her husband Bill since the beginning of April when her care home […]
  
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