News Round-Up
19 May 2024
by Will Jones
BBC Comes to Terms With Collapsing EV Market
17 May 2024
by Sallust
...Government – early on in the outbreak – requested that staff didn’t work in more than one care home. So have some care home residents not been getting the care...
...alleged outbreaks in care homes. This is how a false positive ‘outbreak’ in care homes could conceivably happen: Step 1 Start by testing the entire UK population of care home...
...costs by promoting patient self-care.4 Vulnerable elderly care home residents, many of whom lack mental capacity, are unable to obtain Vitamin D without a prescription, as Care and Quality Commission...
...every now and then? Don’t we deserve a government that’s eager and willing to… take care of us?” All true, no doubt. But the phrase, “to take care of someone” is peculiarly polysemic. It is of...
...of all worlds. Elderly are Most Vulnerable, 50–60% of All Deaths Were Care Home Deaths In most countries between 50-60% of deaths from Covid are from care homes. In some...
...to care homes. Before this, negative tests were not required prior to transfers and admissions into the care home. The study interviews show that care homes became no-go zones: GPs...
...to their mask policies, my employer, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, had little interest in patient care and staff welfare. I struggled and I was bullied, as, to my knowledge,...
...hospice that provides gold standard end-of-life care and symptom control for those with life limiting illnesses. The NHS seems unable to provide a comparable level of care, so the hospice...
...harms that have been candidly acknowledged in social care. By all accounts, the removal of masks in social care has been welcomed by the workforce and health and social care...
...Government is planning to vaccinate 13.9 million people by mid-February – although that number includes everyone who works in health and social care settings – and there are about 16...
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