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• Evidence of sustained benefits of pimavanserin for dementia-related psychosis

  21-07-2021 23:27
  Researchers have published evidence of the sustained benefits of an investigational antipsychotic treatment for people with dementia-related psychosis.
  
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• Nexus Planning Later Living Community in Walton-on-Thames

  21-07-2021 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A new later living community with multi-purpose spaces and intergenerational facilities is coming to Walton-on-Thames, thanks to an appeal won by award-winning planning consultancy, Nexus Planning. At 222 units, it is one of the UK’s largest extra care developments permitted to date, in a town centre location.About the appealOn behalf of Guild Living and Legal & General, the appeal was upheld last week, following an inquiry held in March 2021. The high quality of the design by architec
  
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• The Guardian view on sick pay: fix this broken system | Editorial

  21-07-2021 20:01
  
  Don’t just clap for carers, Mr Johnson. Make sure they’re paid properly, including when they’re illIn our polarised politics, here is at least something on which everyone agrees: the UK’s laws on paid sick leave are rubbish. Statutory sick pay is far too low, as the previous health secretary, Matt Hancock, admitted on television. At £95.85 a week, it is the meanest regime during this pandemic almost anywhere in the industrialised world – lower as a proportion
  
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• Dozens of English care homes lost at least 20 residents to Covid, data shows

  21-07-2021 19:16
  
  ‘Highly sensitive’ data shows there were 39,017 care home deaths between April 2020 and end of March this year Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDozens of care homes in England lost at least 20 residents to Covid-19 during the pandemic, according to “highly sensitive” death rates data published by the care regulator, with one home registering 44 deaths over the past year.The Care Quality Commission (CQC) revealed 6,765 homes across the coun
  
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• English care homes could lose 70,000 staff over mandatory Covid jab

  21-07-2021 17:28
  
  Government estimates between 3% and 12% of staff may resist getting jab – meaning they will lose their jobsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageUp to 70,000 care home staff in England could leave the workforce or lose their jobs because the government is insisting they must be vaccinated against Covid, with women and ethnic minorities disproportionately affected, according to a new official estimate.According an impact statement from the government, officials b
  
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• Government ‘all over the place’ as summer recess begins: Politics Weekly podcast

  21-07-2021 17:20
  
  Jessica Elgot and Polly Toynbee discuss a purge of so-called far-left factions from the Labour party. Plus, as Boris Johnson again delays the social care overhaul, Heather Stewart, David Gauke, Jill Rutter and Ryan Shorthouse look at the future for his premiership goalsAs parliament breaks up for summer recess, the government pushes its major plans into the autumn. Many are still waiting for a policy plan on levelling up, social care and how to reach net zero by 2050. So what have we learned fro
  
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• The discredited legal tactic that’s putting abused UK children in danger | Charlotte Proudman

  21-07-2021 15:00
  
  Our family courts are allowing perpetrators to use the bogus idea of ‘parental alienation’ to gain access to their victims
  In court custody battles over the past few years, a new term, “parental alienation”, has taken root. The phrase – based on a “syndrome” that has been internationally discredited and is banned from use in family courts in some countries – is based on the idea that one parent brainwashes a child to distance it from the other pare
  
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• Primrose Croft residents love Cows about Cambridge

  21-07-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cows about Cambridge is a spectacular public art event weaving its way around the city from Monday 28th June – Saturday 4th September 2021. There are 90 cow sculptures forming a free, fun, family-friendly trail of discovery for local people to explore and enjoy.There are 44 large cows each on individually designed by an artist and sponsored by a business, and a further 46 mini moo created by schools and cow-munity groups around Cambridge.It is being run by Wild in Art who started up in 200
  
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