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Jeremy Hunt addresses Health and Care Innovation Expo in Manchester on 12 September.
This white paper sets out a 10-year vision for adult social care and provides information on funded proposals that we will implement over the next 3 years.
Care workers looking after people in their own homes will be offered weekly coronavirus tests from Monday, the government has announced.
Experimental statistics on NHS Test and Trace since its launch on 28 May 2020. Includes reports on NHS Test and Trace (people tested and contact tracing) and rapid (lateral flow device) testing for people without symptoms.
Further targeted areas will have additional testing made available to control and suppress the potential spread of the COVID-19 variant first identified in South Africa.
You need to register with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to run a residential care home for adults in England
This year’s report lays out the scale of the challenge of reducing air pollution, the substantial progress that has been made and highlights achievable solutions.
Findings from the Department of Health and Social Care's review of action taken since 2010 to address safety concerns with certain ambulatory syringe drivers.
Up to £56 million will fund research into the potential health effects of climate change, air pollution, antimicrobial resistance and global pandemics.
Experimental statistics on a range of topics including infection control measures, vaccinations and coronavirus (COVID-19) testing in adult social care settings.
Find out how DHSC processes special category and criminal offences personal data in line with GDPR requirements.
A plan to turbocharge recovery of the COVID-19 backlog in elective care by leveraging the capacity across the whole system and empowering patients to choose where they are treated.
The UK Government has today (Thursday 11 November) opened a new walk-through coronavirus testing centre in Edinburgh.
Guidance for adult social care providers to ethically and sustainably recruit care workers and senior care workers from overseas.
The Department of Health and Social Care will open a new public consultation proposing full flexibility over the amount senior clinicians put into their pension pots.
Measures including surge testing, tracing, isolation support and maximising vaccine uptake will be deployed rapidly across Greater Manchester and all Lancashire County Council areas.
Updated advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) on the COVID-19 booster vaccine programme for winter 2021 to 2022.
Lancashire, Merseyside, Warrington and Halton escalated to areas of intervention, with new restrictions in Wolverhampton, Oadby and Wigston, and parts of Bradford, Kirklees and Calderdale.
The Health and Social Care Secretary spoke to hospital staff about his priorities: the workforce, technology and prevention.
Alistair Burt, Minister for Community and Social Care, speaks about the progress in mental health services for children and young people.
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