Rochdale community comes together to provide hundreds of gift boxes for care home residents

care home is being probed over a retirement farewell party where staff appeared to ignore social distancing while not wearing masks. Staff at Westerfield Care Home in Paisley held the celebration for a member of the team which included surprise gifts and balloons.

Hundreds of health care workers in part of a hospital system in Detroit, Mich., are currently not working after they either contracted the novel coronavirus or were exposed to it, according to a report.  An estimated 576 of the 33,000 employees with Henry Ford Health System, a health care company in Metro Detroit, are said to be temporarily out of work due to COVID-19.  “We are very concerned with the staffing shortage,” Henry Ford Health System Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical

Covid-19 cluster was identified. Health chiefs confirmed that half a dozen people who are linked to the outbreak at Craigie House Care Home in Crossgates have now lost their lives.

direct to your inboxA care home worker claims he wasn't paid to self-isolate after testing positive with Covid-19.One support worker, who is employed by a care home in south Manchester, alleges he was forced to apply for statutory sick pay when he contracted the virus.This meant he was paid just £90 a week, despite usually working 48 hour weeks and earning a monthly salary of around £1,600.Adult social care providers are expected to pay the full wages of care home staff who are isolating, after

Oh deer!  Residents of an Ohio nursing home went for a holiday “deer hunt” earlier this week. On Monday, the staff at Continental Manor in Blanchester, Ohio, dressed as reindeer while residents sitting at a distance used nerf guns to “hunt” them.

Covid-19 were detected. Inchmarlo Care Home in Banchory, Aberdeenshire has been closed to new admissions and visitors after the coronavirus outbreak.NHS Grampian say that the 44 cases affect both residents and staff.

direct to your inboxKathryn Longden suffers from chronic lung disease and her family fear this could be her last Christmas.Daughter Kimberley Ryan says her mum - who is on the high-risk 'shielding' list - has spent the last eight months largely confined to her basement bedroom at Fairfield View care home in Audenshaw.Told two years ago by doctors that Kathryn, 71, was unlikely to survive beyond 18 months, Kimberley fears that this Christmas could be the last opportunity for her to spend time

Perth and Kinross response to the care home sector during the pandemic has been hailed as “exemplary.” The region’s chief officer for health and social care this week told a local committee it had been a “very challenging seven months.”He praised staff for having done “a remarkable job in those most telling circumstances.”Perth and Kinross residents told COVID vaccine is safe and they should get itThe chief officer for health and social care Gordon Paterson was presenting a six-month performance

care homes  from next week, with the test kits then distributed to all care homes from December 14 - a month earlier than the Scottish Government earlier planned.

Livingston Care Home in March this year.

coronavirus outbreak at a Scots nursing home branded “weak” for its Covid-19 response. Mavisbank Care Home in Bishopbriggs, near Glasgow, confirmed the deaths and said 11 staff members and seven residents remain positive for the virus following an outbreak in recent weeks.

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterIrvine Judo Club are asking local businesses and organisations to loosen their belts for a special Christmas appeal.Coaches Gordon and William Brawley and volunteers are desperate to ensure vulnerable elderly residents in Irvine have a present to open on December 25.They are appealing for donations of toiletries and items including slippers and dressing gowns to send to nursing homes in the town

They were also given activity packs with puzzles and local service information.Billie Skene, Cyrenians Opal, groups coordinator, said the 36 residents were “over the moon” at receiving their gifts.

link.“I was very pleased the Queen remembered to send me a card. I wasn’t sure she would due to all the Coronavirus issues, but I’m very touched.