Oct 14, 2020
Care homes have been told they will be expected to make room for coronavirus patients who have been discharged from hospital, despite the policy being blamed for spread of the virus earlier in the year. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has sent a letter to providers urging them to prepare “isolation” rooms […]
Oct 14, 2020
Retail While shops were shuttered in the nationwide lockdown earlier this year, it is unlikely that all retail will be forced to close in any initial “circuit-breaker”. In September, Sage advised the Government that a limited lockdown, with shops remaining...
Oct 14, 2020
Operations are being cancelled across the NHS, as health services struggle to cope with rising numbers of Covid patients. On Wednesday, one of the Government’s scientific advisers said Liverpool could run out of hospital beds in the next week, warning of a “dire”...
Oct 14, 2020
Of the need for one soon, he said: “We’re a bit late now for half-term in the sense I don’t know if that’s enough time for business and people to adapt. But if you said the first two weeks of December, then… staff can take holidays,...
Oct 14, 2020
A dementia patient was restrained by security guards 18 times so he could be forcibly treated, as experts warn the case is “shocking and extreme”. The 77-year-old was admitted to William Harvey Hospital in Ashford in November 2019 with a urinary retention...
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