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• Ex-cabin crew takes on new challenge as support worker

  12-02-2021 10:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Once flying high, Matthew Kavanagh left his cabin crew job to take on a new challenge and is now working as a support worker at Plymouth based care home, Kanner Project.Matthew worked as cabin crew for British Airways back in the late 2000s and at the same time was volunteering at SCOPE (now Ambito) day services in Brighton. He found that a care role was more rewarding and joined SCOPE full-time. After a couple of years Matthew left the UK to teach English to pre-school children in Cambodia, whi
  
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• Will the health service shake-up be a good thing? The experts' view | Richard Murray, Rachel Clarke, Chaand Nagpaul, Ann Robinson and Chris Hopson

  12-02-2021 10:00
  
  The Conservatives are set to reverse many of their own 2012 NHS reforms. Doctors and health chiefs give their verdict Richard Murray is chief executive of The King’s FundRachel Clarke is a palliative care doctor and author of Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of PandemicDr Chaand Nagpaul is chair of the British Medical Association councilAnn Robinson is a locum GP and a former GP partnerChris Hopson is chief executive of NHS Providers Continue reading...
  
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• Downton Abbey inspires day of fun at Dorset care home

  12-02-2021 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  An art deco-themed Dorset care home turned the clock back a whole century with a Downton Abbey-inspired day of fun.Residents and team members at Colten Care’s Bourne View in Poole dressed as characters from the popular TV drama series set on a country estate in the post-Edwardian era.The day began with a 1920s-style cocktail reception featuring Mimosas – champagne and chilled orange – with sherry and soft drink options.It was followed by lunch in the home’s glitzy Hepburn
  
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• Thousands of live-in care staff in England still to receive Covid vaccine

  12-02-2021 07:00
  
  Survey reveals government unlikely to meet target of all social care staff receiving first vaccine by 15 FebruaryCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHundreds of thousands of social care staff in England looking after older and clinically vulnerable people in their own homes have not received their first coronavirus vaccine.A survey by the UK Home Care Association of 379 employers of homecare workers found that by the end of January only 32% of their staff had been v
  
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