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• Scrap rapid Covid tests in England's care homes, experts urge

  03-12-2020 23:35
  
  Figures from Liverpool programme reveal lateral flow tests identified just five out of 10 positive casesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageExperts have called for an end to the use of rapid coronavirus tests in universities and care homes, after government figures from the mass testing programme in Liverpool revealed the tests missed 30% of those with a high viral load.The figures showed that the rapid tests identified just five out of 10 positive cases which had b
  
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• Experts call for end of rapid Covid tests in universities and care homes in England

  03-12-2020 23:35
  
  Government figures from programme revealed tests missed 30% of those with high viral load Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageExperts have called for an end to the use of rapid coronavirus tests in universities and care homes, after government figures from the mass testing programme in Liverpool revealed the tests missed 30% of those with a high viral load.The figures showed that the rapid tests identified just five out of 10 positive cases which had been detected b
  
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• Boris Johnson under pressure to prioritise vaccine for care homes

  03-12-2020 20:00
  
  Scotland announces rollout within fortnight, casting doubt on logistical obstacles cited by PM and NHS chiefCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBoris Johnson is facing pressure to speed up the immunisation of care home residents against Covid after the Scottish government announced it would start doing so on 14 December and logistical difficulties cited by the prime minister were called into question. Care home residents were named by the joint committee on vaccinat
  
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• The Cedars in Halstead sold by DC Care

  03-12-2020 16:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  On behalf of Mr Balkrishna Patel and his family, DC Care is delighted to announce the recent sale of The Cedars Residential Care Home, an established and well-regarded care home located in the market town of Halstead in Essex.
   
  The Cedars is a partly purpose-built care home registered for 63 clients. The property itself is a beautiful country mansion originally built in c.1800s. The House has had an interesting and varied history and has been extended in recent years to deliver state of th
  
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• Child abuse carried out under guise of medical treatment, report finds

  03-12-2020 14:55
  
  Study of sexual abuse in healthcare settings in England and Wales says behaviour was not questioned Healthcare practitioners who committed child sexual abuse commonly did so under the guise of medical treatment, which went unchallenged by other staff even when unnecessary or inappropriate because of their position of trust, research has found.An independent inquiry into child sexual abuse report into abuse in healthcare settings between the 1960s and 2000s found that perpetrators were most commo
  
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• 'These images are a crime scene … it's massive for us to find the child'

  03-12-2020 08:15
  
  The Internet Watch Foundation is seeing a growing number of tipoffs about child abuse. We talk to one analyst about her work‘Deeply dark criminal activity’ drives rise in child abuse images onlineIsobel* has been working throughout lockdown. With her colleagues in the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) analyst room in Cambridge she has been responding to a rising number of tipoffs from the public that child abuse images are circulating online. The work is gruelling.“Today I starte
  
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• ‘Do not resuscitate’ orders caused potentially avoidable deaths, regulator finds

  03-12-2020 01:01
  
  Care Quality Commission says orders were wrongly applied in English care homes in early part of pandemicCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDo-not-resuscitate orders were wrongly allocated to some care home residents during the Covid-19 pandemic, causing potentially avoidable deaths, the first phase of a review by England’s Care Quality Commission has found.The regulator warned that some of the “inappropriate” do not attempt cardiopulmonary resusci
  
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