Shortly after 6.40am on November 26, 1983, six armed men in balaclavas – including one wearing a Trilby – entered a warehouse at Heathrow airport. The property belonged to security company Brink’s Mat and the robbers were there because they knew there was £3million in cash in the vault. They knew because their inside man, … Read more
British nursing hopefuls are turned away as NHS recruits migrants, think-tank claims During 2020 pandemic, 23,000 UK applicants for nursing courses turned down Since 2010, more than half of 650,000 UK applicants were turned away 3 out of 10 nurses who joined the NHS since 2018 were from foreign countries By Steve Doughty Social Affairs … Read more
One of the earliest coronavirus pandemic hotspots is seeing a rapid decline in cases and deaths that far [outpaces[ the U.S.: nursing homes. Between late December and mid February, weekly infections among residents fell by nearly 90 percent – xx the rate as seen in the general population, according to a DailyMail.com analysis of federal … Read more
Boost for NHS as 60,000 apply to be nurses: Pandemic prompts students to turn their backs on history, languages and philosophy and flock to ‘safe’ careers like doctors, dentists and engineers Sign ups rose by 32 per cent this year to a total of 60,130 applicants, says UCAS Number of those opting for nursing straight … Read more
Boost for NHS as 60,000 apply to be nurses: Pandemic prompts students to turn their backs on history, languages and philosophy and flock to ‘safe’ careers like doctors, dentists and engineers Sign ups rose by 32 per cent this year to a total of 60,130 applicants, says UCAS Number of those opting for nursing straight … Read more
The rate of coronavirus vaccinations is high among nursing home residents in the U.S. but low among staff members, a new report finds. More than three-quarters of people living in long-term care facilities had received at least one dose of the COVID-19 immunization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed on Wednesday. However, when … Read more
The first cases of the new mutant strain of COVID-19 to be confirmed in the United States were found in a tiny nursing home in a remote Colorado town, it has emerged. Colorado’s governor, Jared Polis, confirmed on December 29 that the new virus had been identified in his state, in Elbert County. He did … Read more
The first cases of the new mutant strain of COVID-19 to be confirmed in the United States were found in a tiny nursing home in a remote Colorado town, it has emerged. Colorado’s governor, Jared Polis, confirmed on December 29 that the new virus had been identified in his state, in Elbert County. He did … Read more
Nursing home residents in the U.S. will begin receiving their first coronavirus vaccines later this week. During a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) briefing on Monday, officials said the individual states will decided when elderly Americans will received Pfizzer’s jab ‘Allocations for vaccines went out to the states, to the locations that they directed, and … Read more
Vaccination teams are braced to go into care homes to give the most vulnerable the Covid jab by the end of the week. GPs are also due to start administering the Pfizer vaccine from today at 280 local centres across the UK. It means those at greatest risk will finally get the protection they need … Read more