News Round-Up
8 May 2024
...care for unvaccinated patients except in the hospital setting. I couldn’t believe that patients were banned from accessing basic primary care at first, but then I spoke to a man...
...since NY made the same mistake as the UK, where 1/3rd of deaths are care home residents (and Sweden, where >50% deaths are in care homes or care-at-home), which was...
...adult social care in England. We make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and we encourage care services to improve. We monitor,...
...a health care assistant (HCA) who works for an agency providing staff within several care settings in the North-West and, during the initial outbreak, had a permanent contract with a...
Letter From a Care Home Whistleblower A Care Home Assistant has written to Lockdown Sceptics in response to our request for information about the neglect of elderly residents in care...
...there is nothing to suggest it is about to be. I also checked with a colleague regarding intensive care beds. While an increasing number of their occupants have tested positive...
...aren’t providing adequate care to their patients. Not legal advice, he stresses, but interesting nonetheless On the question, “If basic care is to be curtailed to promote vaccination programmes, can...
...The reason for rejection? Mersey Care’s Ethical Cells Committee, acting on advice from the trust’s legal team, determined that Mersey Care had a “duty of care towards other service users”....
...from a critical care nurse at a large NHS hospital in the East of England. She’s none too happy about the staff who’ve been redeployed to work in critical care...
...large numbers of patients with Covid were discharged into care homes causing several outbreaks of infection. An article in the Financial Times recently highlighted that insurers of care homes were...
© Skeptics Ltd.