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• Press release: Boxing stars champion COVID-19 vaccine as the 'best jab' of 2021

  18-06-2021 01:15 via gov.uk
  
  Boxing legends star in a short film to encourage people to get COVID-19 vaccines.
  
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• Press release: Surge testing to be deployed in Reigate and Banstead

  17-06-2021 19:42 via gov.uk
  
  NHS Test and Trace – in partnership with the local authority – is deploying additional testing and genomic sequencing in Reigate and Banstead district in Surrey.
  
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• Transparency data: Weekly statistics for NHS Test and Trace (England): 3 June to 9 June 2021

  17-06-2021 19:30 via gov.uk
  
  Experimental statistics on NHS Test and Trace since its launch on 28 May 2020. Includes reports on NHS Test and Trace (people tested and contact tracing) and rapid (lateral flow device) testing for people without symptoms.
  
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• News story: Government sets out laws to validate accuracy of private COVID-19 tests

  17-06-2021 19:20 via gov.uk
  
  New draft legislation will make it easier for consumers to buy good quality COVID-19 tests with confidence
  
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• Closed consultation: Women's Health Strategy: Call for Evidence

  17-06-2021 18:10 via gov.uk
  
  This call for evidence is seeking to collect views on women’s health. It will run for a period of 14 weeks and is open to everyone aged 16 or over.
  
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• Speech: Building the best health system in the world

  17-06-2021 17:56 via gov.uk
  
  The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock spoke at the virtual NHS Confed Conference.
  
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• Guidance: Technologies Validation Group: using tests to detect COVID-19

  17-06-2021 16:00 via gov.uk
  
  When tests to detect COVID-19 are commonly used (use cases) and what to consider when deciding which type of test to employ.
  
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• Consultation outcome: Private coronavirus (COVID-19) testing validation

  17-06-2021 16:00 via gov.uk
  
  This consulation is seeking to collect views on proposals for private COVID-19 testing validation. We are particularly interested in hearing from businesses involved in the manufacturer, distribution and retail of COVID-19 tests and expert academic views.
  
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• Guidance: COVID-19: guidance for arranging or attending a funeral or a commemorative event during the coronavirus pandemic

  17-06-2021 13:33 via gov.uk
  
  Guidance for arranging or attending a funeral during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
  
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• Guidance: COVID-19: arranging or attending a funeral or commemorative event

  17-06-2021 13:33 via gov.uk
  
  Guidance for arranging or attending a funeral or commemorative event during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
  
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• Press release: Findings from COVID-19 round 12 REACT-1 study published

  17-06-2021 11:06 via gov.uk
  
  Findings from Imperial College London and Ipsos MORI show infections have increased by 50% since the last REACT-1 study in May, with 1 in 670 people infected.
  
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• Independent report: REACT-1 study of coronavirus transmission: June 2021 final results

  17-06-2021 09:30 via gov.uk
  
  Results of real-time assessment of community transmission of coronavirus (COVID-19) during June 2021.
  
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• Consultation outcome: Making vaccination a condition of deployment in older adult care homes

  16-06-2021 19:33 via gov.uk
  
  We are seeking your views on a proposal to make COVID-19 vaccination a condition of deployment in older adult care homes.
  
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• Press release: Everyone working in care homes to be fully vaccinated under new law to protect residents

  16-06-2021 18:13 via gov.uk
  
  People working in CQC-registered care homes will need to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated with both doses.
  
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• Notice: Events Research Programme - Ministerial Directions

  16-06-2021 17:04 via gov.uk
  
  Ministerial Directions in relation to the Events Research Programme pilot events.
  
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• Press release: £36 million boost for AI technologies to revolutionise NHS care

  16-06-2021 15:35 via gov.uk
  
  Thirty-eight new pioneering artificial intelligence (AI) projects announced to help revolutionise care and accelerate diagnosis.
  
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• Nurses choosing better-paid shifts at vaccination hubs adding to crisis in Australian public hospitals

  15-06-2021 19:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Calls for exhausted nursing staff to be better supported in hospital emergency departmentsExhausted nurses are opting to take shifts in vaccination hubs instead of emergency departments and GP surgeries because they are paid more to deliver vaccinations and can also obtain much-needed respite from overcrowded public hospitals and clinics.A senior agency nurse working in a vaccination hub told Guardian Australia: “I’ve never been paid as much as I’m being paid to work in the vac
  
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• Press release: More than 30 million people vaccinated with second dose

  15-06-2021 17:15 via gov.uk
  
  More than 30 million people in the UK have received a second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, the latest figures published today (15 June) show, as the vaccination programme continues at unprecedented pace and scale.
  
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• Transparency data: Coronavirus England briefing, 15 June 2021

  15-06-2021 16:29 via gov.uk
  
  Latest epidemiological data used by the government to brief MPs on the roadmap out of lockdown and to inform local and national decision-making in response to COVID-19 outbreaks.
  
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• Statement to Parliament: Oral statement on easing of coronavirus restrictions

  14-06-2021 22:24 via gov.uk
  
  Speech by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in House of Commons on the easing of coronavirus restrictions
  
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• Press release: Sir Richard Sykes appointed chair of Vaccine Taskforce

  14-06-2021 21:45 via gov.uk
  
  The UK government has appointed Sir Richard Sykes as the new chair of the Vaccine Taskforce.
  
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• Press release: Care home residents can stay overnight as visiting restrictions ease

  14-06-2021 20:41 via gov.uk
  
  Care home residents will be able to spend more time with family and friends.
  
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• Press release: Further support for Birmingham, Blackpool, Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Liverpool City region and Warrington to tackle Delta (B1.617.2) variant

  14-06-2021 19:55 via gov.uk
  
  This follows the introduction of further support in Greater Manchester and Lancashire last week
  
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• Press release: Surge testing to be deployed in Slough

  14-06-2021 19:14 via gov.uk
  
  Working with the local authority, NHS Test and Trace is providing additional testing and genomic sequencing in Slough.
  
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• Press release: Surge testing to be deployed in Bracknell Forest

  14-06-2021 19:04 via gov.uk
  
  Working with the local authority, NHS Test and Trace is providing additional testing and genomic sequencing in Bracknell Forest.
  
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• Dorothy Cuninghame obituary

  14-06-2021 11:33 via theguardian.com
  
  My mother, Dorothy Cuninghame, who has died aged 100, was a secretary and housewife but also – as a nurse with the Quaker Friends Ambulance Unit in the second world war – a member of the generation of people who did so much to keep things going during that conflict.Born in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, she was the daughter of William Stapleton, who worked in insurance, and his wife, Florence (nee Gazeley). The family were never well off, and Dorothy recalled the younger of her two siste
  
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• Transparency data: Birthday Honours 2021: Ambulance Service list

  11-06-2021 23:30 via gov.uk
  
  Recipients of The Queen's Ambulance Service Medal 2021.
  
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• Public sector workers on Covid and prisons lauded in Queen’s birthday honours

  11-06-2021 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Teacher and nurse feted for roles during pandemic, and prison officer for supporting women in custodyA prison officer behind a widely copied scheme to support women in custody and a nurse at the forefront of developing one of the NHS Nightingale hospitals are among public sector workers recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours list. Continue reading...
  
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• Guidance: General ophthalmic service continuing education and training payment: 2021

  11-06-2021 21:17 via gov.uk
  
  How to claim general ophthalmic service continuing and education payment for 2020, between 1 July and 31 October 2021.
  
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• Correspondence: Letter from the Deputy Chief Medical Officer to UK vaccine study volunteers

  11-06-2021 20:51 via gov.uk
  
  Open letter from Deputy Chief Medical Officer Professor Jonathan Van-Tam to UK residents who have volunteered to take part in COVID-19 vaccine studies.
  
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• Press release: Surge testing to be deployed in Cheshire West

  11-06-2021 19:37 via gov.uk
  
  Working with local authorities, NHS Test and Trace is providing additional testing and genomic sequencing in Cheshire West.
  
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• Press release: Surge testing to be deployed in Staffordshire

  11-06-2021 18:40 via gov.uk
  
  Working with local authorities, NHS Test and Trace is providing additional testing and genomic sequencing in Staffordshire.
  
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• Press release: Over 70 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in UK

  11-06-2021 18:35 via gov.uk
  
  More than 55.4% of people in the UK vaccinated with both doses for the fullest possible protection.
  
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• Transparency data: Voluntary scheme aggregate net sales and payment information: May 2021

  11-06-2021 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Information on how the 2019 voluntary scheme for branded medicines pricing and access is controlling spend on branded medicines in the NHS.
  
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• Guidance: COVID-19 vaccination status: if you cannot get a confirmation letter (easy read)

  11-06-2021 10:16 via gov.uk
  
  Easy read version of the non-personal information sent to you if you cannot get a post-vaccination confirmation letter about your COVID-19 vaccination status.
  
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• Guidance: COVID-19 vaccination status: if you cannot get a confirmation letter

  11-06-2021 10:16 via gov.uk
  
  Translated versions of the non-personal information sent to you if you cannot get a post-vaccination confirmation letter about your COVID-19 vaccination status.
  
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• Transparency data: Coronavirus England briefing, 10 June 2021

  10-06-2021 19:34 via gov.uk
  
  Latest epidemiological data used by the government to brief MPs on the roadmap out of lockdown and to inform local and national decision-making in response to COVID-19 outbreaks.
  
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• Press release: UK and US agree new partnership to fight future pandemics and tackle health inequalities

  10-06-2021 18:48 via gov.uk
  
  Landmark partnership agreed by UK Health Security Agency and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to strengthen global response to future pandemics.
  
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• Impact assessment: NHS holiday pay for voluntary overtime: equalities impact assessment

  10-06-2021 17:30 via gov.uk
  
  Equalities impact assessment and accompanying guidance, analysing the agreed position on corrective payments for holiday pay for regular voluntary overtime under the NHS Terms and Conditions of Service Handbook.
  
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• Transparency data: Wastewater testing coverage data for 19 May 2021: EMHP programme

  10-06-2021 16:00 via gov.uk
  
  Data for the coverage of wastewater testing in England as part of the Environmental Monitoring for Health Protection (EMHP) programme.
  
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• Transparency data: Weekly statistics for NHS Test and Trace (England): 27 May to 2 June 2021

  10-06-2021 12:00 via gov.uk
  
  Experimental statistics on NHS Test and Trace since its launch on 28 May 2020. Includes reports on NHS Test and Trace (people tested and contact tracing) and rapid (lateral flow device) testing for people without symptoms.
  
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• Open consultation: The appointment and operation of the Patient Safety Commissioner

  10-06-2021 10:51 via gov.uk
  
  This consultation seeks views and any comments from those who may be affected or have a particular interest in the set up and functions of the new Patient Safety Commissioner for England.
  
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• Official Statistics: Adult social care in England, monthly statistics: June 2021

  10-06-2021 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Experimental statistics on a range of topics including infection control measures, coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccinations and testing for COVID-19 in adult social care settings.
  
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• National Statistics: Abortion statistics for England and Wales: 2020

  10-06-2021 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Statistics and commentary on abortions carried out in 2020.
  
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• Guidance: Overview of adult social care guidance on coronavirus (COVID-19)

  10-06-2021 10:23 via gov.uk
  
  Information for adult social care providers on COVID-19 guidance and support.
  
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• Allied health professionals are an asset to the NHS, not a threat | Letter

  09-06-2021 18:32 via theguardian.com
  
  If the Royal College of Nursing succeeded in keeping them from generic roles, half the clinical teams would blink out of existence overnight, says Sarah McCullochWith regard to your recent article (NHS trusts hiring non-nurses for nursing roles, union warns, 9 June), I am an NHS manager and an occupational therapist. I am sure that the Royal College of Nursing is rightly concerned at the increasing numbers of unfilled qualified posts across the National Health Service, but denigrating the skills
  
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• Transparency data: Coronavirus cases by local authority: epidemiological data, 9 June 2021

  09-06-2021 15:00 via gov.uk
  
  Weekly watchlist giving epidemiological coronavirus (COVID-19) data for each lower-tier local authority (LTLA) in England.
  
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• Press release: 100,000 help shape Women’s Health Strategy with more urged to come forward before close

  09-06-2021 13:42 via gov.uk
  
  Women from under-represented groups urged to respond to government’s call for evidence to shape the future of women’s healthcare.
  
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• Guidance: How to do a coronavirus (COVID-19) rapid lateral flow test at home

  09-06-2021 12:46 via gov.uk
  
  Find out how to do a COVID-19 rapid test at home for yourself (or someone else) and report the results. Rapid tests are only for people who do not have symptoms of COVID-19.
  
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• Press release: UK Government Covid Testing Centre opens in South Lanarkshire

  09-06-2021 11:50 via gov.uk
  
  New walk-through coronavirus testing centre in Blantyre is one of more than 50 similar facilities throughout Scotland
  
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