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Now that the independent Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) have approved the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, it will be made available to older people, NHS and care workers, from next week.A priority list has been published by The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunis … read more

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said, the NHS is ready to start providing the new coronavirus vaccine "as fast as safely possible", and that it is "absolutely a possibility" that it could be available by Christmas, expecting a mas roll-out early next year. On Monday, early results from the world' … read more

60 organisations have come together and sent an open letter to the government urging it not to take away care home visits to families and loved ones during the month-long lockdown which starts Thursday 5 November.Matt Hancock and Minister for Care, Helen Whately, wrote this letter to the Secretary o … read more

The letter, signed by Seona Douglas, Reading Borough Council’s executive director for Social Care & Health, alongside other adult social care directors, states: "In Berkshire West we consider that it is not acceptable to ask care homes to take new admission patients who are tested positive for COVID … read more

Tom Surrey, director for Adult Social Care Quality at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), sent a letter telling local authorities they need to ‘identify designated accommodation’ and then notify the Care Quality Commission (CQC) of the details of these facilities as soon as tomorrow (16 … read more

Free PPE is part of the new Adult Social Care Winter Plan which has been drawn up to support care homes and home care services through the winter months.A £546m Infection Control Fund will also be accessible to Care Homes and Home Care care services so they can pay care workers full sick pay if they … read more