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• Stroke risk higher than expected among COVID-19 patients

  19-03-2021 17:55
  Analysis of data from the American Heart Association's COVID-19 CVD Registry of more than 20,000 U.S. adults hospitalized with COVID-19 through November 2020 found that, overall, COVID-19 patients had an increased risk of stroke compared with patients who had influenza or sepsis. COVID-19 patients with ischemic stroke were more likely to be older, male, Black race or have high blood pressure, Type 2 diabetes or an irregular heartbeat.
  
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• Sleep-in care workers entitled to minimum wage only when awake, court rules

  19-03-2021 13:57
  
  Decision means workers can only receive payment when they are ‘actively helping client’
  The supreme court has dismissed a claim by care workers who carry out “sleep-in” shifts that they should be paid the national minimum wage for hours when they are not awake and actively helping the client.The decision ends a four-year legal battle involving two care workers and the learning disability charity Mencap that threatened to leave care providers with a potential £400m b
  
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• Sleep-in care workers not entitled to minimum wage, supreme court rules

  19-03-2021 11:21
  
  Decisions means workers can only receive minimum wage when required to be awake for workCare workers who have to sleep at their workplace in case they are needed overnight are not entitled to the minimum wage for their whole shift, the supreme court has ruled.Claire Tomlinson-Blake, a Mencap support worker in the East Riding of Yorkshire, had appealed against a court of appeal ruling that carers are only entitled to the minimum wage when they are required to be awake for work – and not whi
  
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• Cornerstone Healthcare introduces Real Living Wage to care staff

  19-03-2021 10:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Award winning complex care provider, Cornerstone Healthcare, is among the first in the sector to introduce the Real Living Wage.The rate, which was announced by Living Wage Foundation in November, is a voluntary rate of pay and offers workers £9.50 per hour.  Employers are encouraged to implement the change by the beginning of May and unlike the National Living Wage, which applies to those aged 23 and over, the Real Living Wage will be given to all those aged 18 and over.Cornerstone,
  
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• Learning disability and autistic people reluctant to provide feedback on care

  19-03-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  CQC research reveals that people with a learning disability and autistic people are more reluctant to give negative feedback on their care in case it increases pressures on staff or services. This is why CQC is calling on people with a learning disability and autistic people, and their loved ones, friends and carers to give feedback on their care.  Throughout the pandemic CQC has acted on the intelligence it receives to ensure high qual
  
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