Care providers will be given an extra £546 million to bolster infection control and help protect residents and staff throughout winter. Press Release Published 17 September 2020 From: Department of [...]
To: All care providers Local Authority Chief Executives and Directors of Adult Social Care Dear care colleague, Actions required to prevent rise in coronavirus cases in the care sector Reprinted [...]
Care homes in England experienced the highest increase in excess deaths at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to those in the rest of the UK, according to new [...]
Evolution and impact of COVID-19 outbreaks in care homes: population analysis in 189 care homes in one geographic region Abstract Background: COVID-19 has had large impact on care-home residents internationally. [...]
Of the country’s nearly 130,000 coronavirus deaths, more than 40 percent have been residents or employees of nursing homes and long-term care facilities. One in five facilities have reported at least one death. [...]
Plans to adequately fund the social care sector need to be in place within a year, the head of NHS England has said. Sir Simon Stevens told the BBC the [...]
Staff and residents in care homes in England will receive regular coronavirus tests from next week. Staff will be tested for coronavirus weekly with tests every 28 for days residents [...]
Almost 30,000 more care home residents in England and Wales died during the coronavirus outbreak than during the same period in 2019, ONS figures show. But only two-thirds were directly attributable [...]
More than 16,000 people have died from Covid-19 in UK care homes, according to the latest official figures – almost a third of all fatalities. The grim milestone was reached [...]
Exclusive: figures show Britain second only to Spain among major European countries In England, 54% of all excess deaths were in care homes, the study found. Booth Social affairs correspondent [...]
