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• Plan to oblige care staff to have Covid jab and England easing delay confirmed

  16-06-2021 21:30
  
  Matt Hancock makes vaccine announcement before MPs vote to approve 19 July lockdown end dateCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMinisters are to go ahead with plans to oblige care home staff to have coronavirus vaccinations as a condition of work and will consult on extending the obligation to NHS workers, Matt Hancock has confirmed.Speaking in the Commons before MPs overwhelmingly agreed a four-week delay to the final easing of Covid restrictions in England, the he
  
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• MPs vote 461 to 60 in favour of extending social restrictions in England to 19 July – as it happened

  16-06-2021 20:37
  
  Latest updates: 60 MPs vote against government plans while former special adviser Dominic Cummings publishes messages purporting to show PM’s criticism of health secretary Matt HancockCummings texts show Johnson calling Matt Hancock ‘totally hopeless’UK again excluded from EU’s Covid-safe travel list, but US addedAll care home staff in England should have Covid vaccine, says ministerCovid jabs to become mandatory for care home staff in EnglandGlobal coronavirus updates &n
  
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• MPs vote to approve extending social restrictions in England to 19 July – politics live

  16-06-2021 20:16
  
  Latest updates: MPs vote through government plans while former special adviser Dominic Cummings publishes messages purporting to show PM’s criticism of health secretary Matt HancockCummings texts show Johnson calling Matt Hancock ‘totally hopeless’UK again excluded from EU’s Covid-safe travel list, but US addedAll care home staff in England should have Covid vaccine, says ministerCovid jabs to become mandatory for care home staff in EnglandGlobal coronavirus updates &ndas
  
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• Tory MPs speak out against delaying lifting of final lockdown restrictions in England – politics live

  16-06-2021 19:31
  
  Latest updates: MPs to vote through government plans while former special adviser Dominic Cummings publishes messages purporting to show PM’s criticism of health secretary Matt HancockCummings texts show Johnson calling Matt Hancock ‘totally hopeless’UK again excluded from EU’s Covid-safe travel list, but US addedAll care home staff in England should have Covid vaccine, says ministerCovid jabs to become mandatory for care home staff in EnglandGlobal coronavirus updates &n
  
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• Matt Hancock confirms plan to require care staff to have Covid vaccine

  16-06-2021 17:51
  
  Government will consult on extending requirement to NHS and could in future add seasonal fluMinisters are to go ahead with plans to oblige care home staff to have coronavirus vaccinations as a condition of work and will consult on extending this to NHS workers, Matt Hancock has confirmed.Speaking in the Commons before a vote later on Wednesday on delaying the easing of Covid restrictions by four weeks, the health secretary also said such compulsion could in future be extended to seasonal flu vac
  
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• Link found between gut microbes and stroke

  16-06-2021 17:38
  New findings show that the gut microbiome impacts stroke severity and functional impairment following stroke. The results lay the groundwork for potential new interventions to help treat or prevent stroke.
  
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• Boris Johnson plans to leave No 10 two years after next election at latest, Cummings claims – politics live

  16-06-2021 14:44
  
  Latest updates: former special adviser publishes messages purporting to show PM’s criticism of health secretary Matt HancockCummings texts show Johnson calling Matt Hancock ‘totally hopeless’UK again excluded from EU’s Covid-safe travel list, but US addedAll care home staff in England should have Covid vaccine, says ministerCovid jabs to become mandatory for care home staff in EnglandGlobal coronavirus updates – live 1.44pm BST In his mammoth blog Dominic Cummings s
  
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• A third of care home staff in some London areas have not had Covid jab

  16-06-2021 13:42
  
  Figures come as ministers are poised to make it mandatory for staff to get jabCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA third of staff in older adult care homes in some areas of London have not received a single vaccine nearly six months after they were made a top priority, in a development that has left more than a 1,000 care workers still unprotected in just four boroughs.Overall across England, nearly 84% of care workers have received their first dose but in Hackney,
  
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• UK Covid live: Johnson faces Starmer for PMQs as Cummings makes new claims that Hancock was ‘hopeless’

  16-06-2021 13:03
  
  Prime minister’s former adviser posts screengrab purporting to be from Johnson lambasting health department over testingAll care home staff in England should have Covid vaccine, says ministerCovid jabs to become mandatory for care home staff in EnglandThird of hospital Covid patients had ‘do not resuscitate’ orderGlobal coronavirus updates – live 12.03pm BST Sir Robert Neill (Con) asks the PM to use the expertise of the British legal system in developing his G7 agenda.Joh
  
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• New Nottingham care home hosts open day

  16-06-2021 10:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Rivendell View Care Home, situated on Magenta Way in Stoke Bardolph , has hosted its official open day and received a very warm welcome from local artists who generously donated paintings and other works of art to display around the home.A local artist attended the open day bearing a touching housewarming gift of a portrait of the local woodlands which he presented to Home Manager, Samantha Kavanagh.Samantha said, ‘The response from the local community has been overwhelming, I am very grat
  
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• UK Covid live news: ministers face backlash from England’s care sector over plans to make jabs compulsory for staff

  16-06-2021 10:23
  
  Latest updates: 16-week deadline for staff to get vaccinated would not give sector enough time to adapt, say senior figuresAll care home staff in England should have Covid vaccine, says ministerCoronavirus – latest global updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage 9.23am BST Almost one million people in England aged 21 and 22 still start getting texts today inviting them to book a coronavirus vaccine appointment, NHS England said this morning. It said:As the NHS works through the final cohort
  
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• All care home staff in England should have Covid vaccine, says minister

  16-06-2021 09:31
  
  But Liz Truss refuses to confirm reportsministers are poised to make it mandatory for staff to get jabCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAll care home staff in England should be vaccinated, a senior government minister has urged, saying she would not want her own relatives to be looked after by unvaccinated carers.Speaking on behalf of the government on Wednesday, the international trade secretary, Liz Truss, said it was incredibly important for staff to get the ja
  
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• Care workers from South Tyneside and Doncaster named “Hales Superheroes”

  16-06-2021 08:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Regional care provider Hales Group Ltd is proud to announce that Melissa Hobbs from South Tyneside and Michelle Buchanan from Doncaster are February and March’s winners of the £1,000 from the coveted Hales Heroes draw.In recognising the incredible work that Michelle does, Registered Regional Manager Cora Ellis had this to say, “Since Michelle has joined Hales she has gone over and above for her service users. She makes the most of the time in all her calls. Michelle has genuine
  
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• Adult social care services face ‘deluge’ of requests for support

  16-06-2021 01:01
  
  Care chiefs in England blame lack of government funding and resources for the strain to servicesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAdult social care services are facing a “deluge” of requests for support from vulnerable and older people as society starts to open up after the pandemic, according to council care chiefs in England.There has been a big increase in people needing help after their condition deteriorated while waiting to be admitted to hospita
  
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