COVID-19: Home care workers now being offered weekly coronavirus tests
All home care workers looking after old and vulnerable people in their own homes are now being offered weekly coronavirus tests, the government has announced . Those working for CQC registered providers will receive weekly PCR tests to administer at home, which will help identify more asymptomatic cases and protect care users who are more […]
Free vitamin D pills for clinically ‘vulnerable’ at home and care home residents
Care home residents and those on the government’s new shielding list are among the 2.5 million people in England being offered free vitamin D pills this winter, the government has announced. As well as care homes, others on the government’s new ‘clinically extremely vulnerable’ list (which comes into effect from 2 December) will be sent a letter […]
United Kingdom Homecare Association (UKHCA) has criticised the government accusing them of being ‘disinterested in the 715,000’ care workers during the pandemic.
The chief executive of United Kingdom Homecare Association (UKHCA) has criticised the government over the lack of testing and costs of PPE, accusing them of being ‘disinterested in the 715,000’ care workers during the pandemic. In her open letter to Stuart Miller, director of Adult Social Care Delivery at the Department for Health and Social […]
People discharged from hospital to get free home care
The government is to spend £588 million on helping people who require domiciliary care or care home support after being discharged from hospital. The funding is part of a three-billion pound package provided to protect and prepare health and social care in the event of a second peak of COVID-19, during the coming winter months, […]