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Fourteen-day care home trip isolation period ‘excessive’, says ICG
A government requirement for care home residents to isolate for 14 days following external trips has come under criticism. While welcoming updated care home visiting…
READ MORECautious Welcome for Double Visits
Today’s Government announcement increasing the number of visitors care and nursing home residents can have has met with a cautious welcome from providers. Provider body…
READ MOREA tribute to key workers and those lost to Covid – Mike Padgham – The Guardian
On Tuesday (23.03.21), to mark the anniversary of the first Covid-19 lockdown, we will all stop for a moment to reflect on those we have…
READ MORECall For Care Sector Help As Funding Ends
Providers need help during pandemic CARE providers today urged the Government not to turn its back on care providers and to keep providing support at…
READ MOREWhy this Budget must ‘get social care done’ – Mike Padgham | Yorkshire Post
On Wednesday we will have the first Budget since the country was hit by Covid-19. We will see what the Chancellor has to say about…
READ MOREShock As Care Homes Deaths Top 1,000 A Week
But providers hope deaths will now fall Care providers today warned that Covid-19 had not gone away – despite the vaccine programme – after new…
READ MORECare home chief becomes a COVID-19 vaccine volunteer
The acting chief executive of the Independent Care Group (ICG) has signed up to do her bit in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Bev…
READ MORE‘Lets Get Social Care Done’
Mike Padgham, Chairman of the Independent Care Group (ICG) says the Government’s goal for 2021 should be to ‘Get Social Care Done’. Read the full…
READ MOREThe Reader: Boris Johnson must step up and reform our social care
No tears will be shed for 2020 and as we start the new year, we all pray for better times ahead. My hope for 2021…
READ MORE‘No more excuses’ for social care reform
Prime minister Boris Johnson has been pressed to address social care reform this year and make it an urgent government priority now that Brexit has…
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