COVID-19: Life-saving care for non-coronavirus patients under threat due to hospital strain, surgeon warns
A surgeon in Wales has warned life-saving care of non-COVID patients is under threat if critical care units continue to fill up. Wales [...]
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COVID-19: Care home visitors who test negative ‘can hug loved ones’ before Christmas
Relatives of care home residents in England will be able to hug their loved ones before Christmas – if they have a negative [...]
Care home workers 'forced terrified elderly women into dementia fight club'
A trio of carers were indicted after they allegedly forced terrified elderly women suffering from dementia into a fight club at an assisted [...]
Covid care home policies ‘violated human rights’
Sending thousands of older untested patients into care homes in England at the start of the coronavirus lockdown was a violation of their [...]
Coronavirus: Care leavers are facing ‘digital poverty’ with no online access to education or work, campaigners say.
Care leavers are facing “digital poverty” without laptops or access to the internet, campaigners say. A government scheme to provide digital devices and [...]
Why should I care if share prices fall?
Big shifts in the stock market are often in the news, whether they are booms or falls owing to coronavirus or the financial [...]
Coronavirus: Care homes ‘widely exposed’ as COVID-19 ‘begins to move in’
Care homes are still “widely exposed” to coronavirus as it starts spreading within them again, a trade association boss has said. Nadra Ahmed, [...]
Coronavirus: Care home staff in COVID-19 hotspots wait over a week for test results
Care home staff in coronavirus hotspots are waiting over a week for test results, prompting concerns that the system cannot cope with increased [...]
Over 400 care home residents were dying every day at peak of pandemic
More than 400 care home residents were dying each day with Covid-19 at the peak of the UK’s outbreak. Researchers believe staff movement [...]
How an aged care crisis seized ‘ill-prepared’ Australia
“I grew up in a war; I’m not dying in a pandemic.” Margaret Alcock sheltered from bombs during the Blitz, crossed an ocean [...]