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• Study uncovers clues to COVID-19 using imaging

  12-03-2021 19:26
  A visual correlation has been found between the severity of COVID-19 in the lungs using CT scans and the severity of effects on patient's brains, using MRI scans.
  
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• Discovery of Safe Infection Control Solution gives Day Centre residents reassurance

  12-03-2021 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Award-winning First City Nursing, provider of nursing care that is rated outstanding by the Care Quality Commission, was swift to develop a robust Covid-prevention protocol prior to reopening its day-centres following the first lockdown of the current pandemic. Central to this protocol is MicroSafe® disinfectant, a new arrival in the UK, making First City Nursing one of the first to adopt this 100% toxin-free, highly effective disinfectant and one that sets the gold standard in safe sanitisa
  
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• Care England Gives Cautious Welcome to Changes to Shortage Occupation List

  12-03-2021 10:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Care England, the largest representative body of independent adult social care providers, has today given a cautious welcome to the new roles added to the Shortage Occupation List.
   
  Professor Martin Green OBE, Chief Executive of Care England, says:
   
  “I am pleased that the Government has acknowledged the challenges of recruiting social care managers, this is something we have long called for.  We hope that this is the start of a process towards the creation of a migration s
  
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• Bradford to get its own dementia specialist

  12-03-2021 08:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Families living with dementia in central Bradford are being helped to live more positively and face the challenges of tomorrow with more confidence and less fear, thanks to a collaboration between Dementia UK and the recently formed Proactive Care Team (PACT), led by Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust.Dementia UK is the only charity dedicated to supporting families affected by dementia through dementia specialist Admiral Nurses. The nurses work alongside families giving compassionate on
  
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• As Covid turns the crisis of social care into a calamity, the government does nothing | Polly Toynbee

  12-03-2021 07:00
  
  Frail, elderly people will continue to bear the brunt of this dismal political failureA ghoulish figure was hidden away on page 135 of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s report on budget day last week. The 125,000 deaths from Covid so far will save the Treasury £1.5bn in state pensions by 2022; savings will continue to be made during all the years those people should have lived. That shocking death toll brings in more inheritance tax revenues, too.But those deaths are another blo
  
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