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• Make a difference to residents’ lives as a Healthcare Assistant

  29-03-2021 12:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  A healthcare assistant has described working at Encore Care Homes as she encourages more people to support the residents by joining the team.Maria Rodrigues, who has worked as a Healthcare Assistant (HCA) at Great Oaks in Bournemouth for three years, said that her favourite part of the job is spending time with the residents as she loves getting to know each of them personally. She said that the Healthcare Assistant roles available would benefit people who have a caring, thoughtful personality.E
  
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• Gunnislake residential service creates its own pub and cinema during lockdown

  29-03-2021 08:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  As the national lockdown continues, team members and the people they support at Woodlands residential service in Gunnislake in Cornwall have decided to recreate some of the activities they have been missing the most from their pre-pandemic lives, in order to get a taste of normality during continually unusual times.Top of the list of pastimes they missed was going to the cinema, so the Woodlands team created a special cinema experience for the evening. This included hiring a big outdoor screen a
  
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• Mothers’ Day is Time for Tea at Gravesend Care Home

  29-03-2021 08:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  A decadent afternoon tea was the icing on the cake for mums at Edward Moore House Residential Care Home on Sunday, as they enjoyed a Mothers’ Day treat.With loved ones still sadly absent from celebrations in care homes, staff of the Trinity Road care home wanted to put on a special treat for the ladies of the home, in celebration of Mothers’ Day.With the dining room decorated cheerfully especially for the occasion, the finest china in use and spring flowers on display, the ladies wer
  
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• Made in Britain: 'Now more than ever, we must involve and empower people'

  29-03-2021 08:07
  
  Senior video producer John Domokos on a community-focused video series highlighting social issues facing Britons todayWith Brexit, the pandemic and the lingering effects of de-industrialisation as a backdrop, the film follows three women as they try to turn around their own fortunes and those of their communities. For Rachel that is Doncaster, and its cultural scene. For Lindsay, that community is online as she fights back against bullying and discrimination, all while doing the underpaid and ch
  
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• British Innovator Jelly Drops Announces UK Initiative to Recognise Unsung Heroes

  29-03-2021 02:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  London innovator, Jelly Drops, has announced its first ‘Celebrate Carers’ initiative to champion both paid and unpaid carers across the UK for their outstanding contributions and dedication.With unpaid carers alone having spent an extra 92 million hours looking after loved ones since the pandemic, Jelly Drops wanted to shine a spotlight on some of the remarkable individuals that have gone above and beyond the call of duty to care for people.The nominations opened in December 2020, an
  
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• First Covid jab cuts infection risk by 62% in England care home residents

  29-03-2021 01:01
  
  People infected after having vaccine may also be less likely to transmit virus, initial findings showCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA government-funded study of care home residents in England has found that their risk of infection with Covid-19 – either symptomatic or asymptomatic – fell by 62% five weeks after they received their first Oxford/AstraZeneca or Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine dose. Those who were infected after having the vaccine may also be l
  
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