Guidance to local authorities, CCGs and care providers regarding home care provision and COVID-19
Public Health England (PHE) has issued new guidance about home care provision which sets out…
Local authorities receive guidance relating to new powers to suspend Care Act duties
Local authorities have received new guidance relating to the powers available under the new Coronavirus…
Government stops Customs Duty and VAT on urgent Personal Protection Equipment
On the 1st April, the government announced that it is to suspend import duty on…
Birmingham and Manchester exhibition centres to become NHS Nightingale field hospitals
Soon the familiar walkways and halls of the NEC will be transformed into a field…
BREAKING: Prime minister Boris Johnson confirms he has coronavirus
Prime minister Boris Johnson has announced he has contracted coronavirus and is exhibiting mild symptoms…
EU regulators move to delay major MDR changes by one-year amid COVID-19 crisis
As the strain of coronavirus known as COVID-19 continues to spread and cause substantial disruption…
NHS agrees major deal with independent hospitals for thousands more beds, ventilators and extra staff
8,000 hospital beds, 1,200 ventilators and almost 20,000 extra healthcare staff will be made urgently…
Government steps in to pay staff wages for businesses in an unprecedented COVID-19 measure
In an extraordinary move to protect employees’ jobs across the private sector, chancellor Rishi Sunak…
£1.6bn for local authorities and £1.3bn for NHS to quicken hospital discharges and free up beds
£ billion has been announced to help relieve pressure on the NHS, free up vitally…
Medical equipment producers and distributors included as “key workers” as schools close
Following the announcement that schools will remain open for the children of key workers when…