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• The Guardian view on lionising Covid-19 workers: Johnson’s donkeys still fail them | Editorial

  27-08-2020 20:11
  
  Frontline staff deserve more than praise from the government. They need it to do its job
  Any connoisseur of socialist realist art would appreciate the National Museum of China’s new art exhibition, which hymns the battle against coronavirus with sculptures of masked medics mobilised in collective effort. The show is designed to “unite the people” and “spread positive energy”. This was to be expected: the Communist party has always preferred the heroic mould of histo
  
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• Fuller care homes with fewer staff had more Covid cases, study finds

  27-08-2020 18:00
  
  Exclusive: research into cases at Four Seasons homes raises questions about private sectorData on Covid care home deaths kept secret ‘to protect commercial interests’Coronavirus impact has made UK’s social care crisis even more acuteHigher occupancy and fewer staff increased Covid-19 infections at one of the UK’s biggest private care home operators, according to a study that raises questions about the business model for old-age care in Britain.There was a significant incr
  
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• Falling care home demand since Covid poses threat to UK

  27-08-2020 18:00
  
  Financial effect of pandemic may seriously erode ability to look after the most vulnerableData on Covid care home deaths kept secret ‘to protect commercial interests’Fuller care homes with fewer staff had more Covid cases, study findsThere is a graph circulating in the care home industry that should send chills down the spine of the health and social care secretary, Matt Hancock. It predicts, under a worst-case scenario, a plunge in the demand for care homes by the end of 2021 that w
  
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• Data on Covid care home deaths kept secret 'to protect commercial interests'

  27-08-2020 18:00
  
  Exclusive: English and Scottish regulators refuse to reveal homes with most fatalitiesFuller care homes with fewer staff had more Covid cases, study finds
  Covid-19 death tolls at individual care homes are being kept secret by regulators in part to protect providers’ commercial interests ahead of a possible second coronavirus spike, the Guardian can reveal.England’s Care Quality Commission (CQC) and the Care Inspectorate in Scotland are refusing to make public which homes or providers
  
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• Coronavirus impact has made UK's social care crisis even more acute

  27-08-2020 18:00
  
  Financial effect of pandemic may seriously erode ability to look after the most vulnerableFull care homes with fewer staff increase risk of Covid spread, study suggestsThere is a graph circulating in the care home industry that should send chills down the spine of the health and social care secretary, Matt Hancock. It predicts, under a worst-case scenario, a plunge in the demand for care homes by the end of 2021 that would leave 180,000 beds empty.The forecast by consultants Knight Frank is not
  
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• Gresford Colliery disaster survivor celebrates 100th birthday

  27-08-2020 09:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  The son of one of the 266 miners killed in a major disaster at the colliery where they both worked has celebrated his 100th birthday with a socially distanced party at the care home where he now lives. Albert Rowlands was a 14-year-old lamp boy at Gresford Colliery when his father was among those who […]
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• The show must go on at he show must go on at Didsbury care village

  27-08-2020 09:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  An outdoor music initiative has hit the right note at Didsbury care village, he show must go on at Didsbury care village, with residents delighting in a live garden performance from the Northern Chamber Orchestra (NCO), as part of a project to improve the lives of those with dementia through music.   The sun was […]
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• Home care providers launch VAT lobbying campaign via webinar

  27-08-2020 07:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  A webinar to launch the campaign seeking a review of the current VAT status of the social care sector took place on the 6th August and was attended by over 160 representatives from the sector.   The campaign is the brainchild of a consortium of home care providers, the founders of which are Ken Deary […]
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• Unclear UK advice on PPE cited in home care Covid-19 death inquiry

  27-08-2020 07:00
  
  Independent report finds care worker who did not wear PPE may have fatally infected clientCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA home care worker who did not wear protective equipment may have infected a client with a fatal case of coronavirus during weeks of contradictory government guidance on whether the kit was needed or not, an official investigation has found.The government’s confusion about how much protection care workers visiting homes needed is detail
  
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• U.S. hospital admissions for stroke fell by almost a third during lockdown

  27-08-2020 00:35
  Almost a third fewer cases of stroke and mini-stroke (TIA) were seen in U.S. hospitals during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic between March and April this year compared to the same time in 2019, research finds.
  
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