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• Share your experiences of Covid in UK care homes

  08-01-2021 17:40
  
  We’d like to hear from staff and families of residents in UK care homes and nursing homesUK care homes have been badly affected by Covid-19 and we’d like to hear from managers and workers about how they’re dealing with the situation. What are conditions like for staff and residents, how are you coping?We’d also like families to get in touch whose relatives are living in homes that are hardest hit by the virus. Are you managing to stay in contact with residents and what ar
  
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• Dedicated West Yorkshire nurses retire after 80 years of combined service

  08-01-2021 12:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Two dedicated West Yorkshire nurses are retiring after each spending 40 years in the care industry. Janice Shaw has spent the last 28 years of her career at Czajka Care Group and Julie Walters has spent the last six years with the family-run company.Janice, who is originally from London moved to Yorkshire with her husband and studied nursing at Airedale Hospital in Steeton to become a state enrolled nurse. She said: “I had always wanted to do something medical, but originally started work
  
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• Care operator distributes token of thanks to care workers at Christmas

  08-01-2021 10:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Runwood Homes teams, across 75 care homes in England and Northern Ireland, have been given, by Directors, a token of thanks for their continued hard work and dedication throughout the pandemic.Each employee has received an online shopping gift voucher to treat themselves to something they’d really like or need, after doing such an incredible job this year in continuing to treat others so admirably, and remaining courageous and resilient during these unprecedented times. The e-gift car
  
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