Weekly testing for care staff as staff revealed as infection vectors
Care home staff in England will be given coronavirus tests every week and residents monthly from Monday 6 July to identify anyone…
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Scottish care homes to open for visitors from July 3
Scottish care home residents will be able to receive visitors outside from 3 July, provided their home meets strict criteria, with infection…
Four Seasons care homes offered repeat testing in new surveillance study
Approximately 10,000 people in 106 Four Seasons care homes will be given repeat testing as part of a new Government study into…
Care homes witness higher rates of ethnic COVID deaths
Care homes have seen a higher proportion of COVID-19 deaths among Black, Asian and White residents than for social care as a…
Scotland’s COVID care home response could breach human rights, experts warn
The treatment by the Scottish Government of people in care homes in Scotland during the COVID-19 pandemic raises a number of serious…
Get care homes ready for post-COVID, says NAO
Health and social care faces two challenges post-COVID-19: to maintain readiness to respond to COVID-19 and to put other essential services onto…
Lies, damned lies and care home COVID-19 statistics
Getting national social care statistics has been one of the key challenges during the Coronavirus crisis. The NHS has had daily figures…
Welsh care homes to receive weekly COVID-19 tests in four-week trial
From Monday 15 June, all care home staff in Wales will be offered a weekly test for a four-week period.
Social care taskforce heralds new whole home testing programme
A new Social Care Sector Covid-19 Support Taskforce has been created to oversee delivery of infection control measures in care homes, including…
Fewer than one third of care home deaths now due to COVID
Latest figures for care home COVID deaths show a continuing fall in the number of fatalities.
