Young men with children most likely to flout COVID-19 testing rules
A study revealing low levels of adherence to test, trace, and isolate COVID-19 rules has been published ahead of a new two-visitor…
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Free PPE in England until March 2022
Care England has welcomed the Government’s decision to extend free PPE to care providers, for COVID, until the end of March 2022.
Long COVID: Identifying the signs to help residents
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has issued official guidance on best practice for recognising and investigating long COVID and rehabilitating…
Scottish care homes criticised for not following visiting guidelines
Care homes in Scotland have been criticised in the Scottish parliament for not following official advice on visiting.
NHS England closes shielding list
More than 3.79 million clinically extremely vulnerable people in England will be informed they are no longer advised to shield from Thursday…
Wales raises concerns about fluctuating second COVID vaccine rates
Social care leaders in Wales are seeking clarification from government over "wildly fluctuating" second COVID vaccine rates in the over-80s age group.
Care home residents were hardest hit by hospital shut-down
New research by the Health Foundation shows that elective admissions to hospital by care home residents in England were lower than that…
Airborne transmission of COVID-19 should be added to risk assessment, RCN says
Airborne COVID infections should be added to infection control risk assessments, according to a new report commissioned by the RCN.
Single-source infections to blame for many care home COVID cases, researchers find
Genomic sequencing has proved a high rate of single-source infections affecting care homes, and "ample opportunities for SARS-CoV-2 transmission between hospital and…
DHSC publishes care home visiting guidance from Monday 8 March
DHSC has published visiting guidance for care homes in England ahead of Monday’s reopening to visitors.
