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More than 60,000 students have applied to study nursing as the coronavirus crisis drives tens of thousands to ‘safer’ and secure careers including medicine, engineering and architecture. Sign ups for courses in nursing surged by almost a third (32 per cent) this year to a total of 60,130 applicants, according to the Universities and Colleges … Read more
Boost for NHS as 60,000 people apply to be nurses: Record number seek medical training after being inspired by staff heroics during Covid-19 pandemic Sign ups rose by 32 per cent this year to a total of 60,130 applicants, says UCAS Number of those opting for nursing straight after leaving school has increased by 27 … Read more
The rate of coronavirus vaccinations is high among nursing home residents in the U.S. but low among staff members, a new report finds. More than three-quarters of people living in long-term care facilities had received at least one dose of the COVID-19 immunization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed on Wednesday. However, when … Read more
The first cases of the new mutant strain of COVID-19 to be confirmed in the United States were found in a tiny nursing home in a remote Colorado town, it has emerged. Colorado’s governor, Jared Polis, confirmed on December 29 that the new virus had been identified in his state, in Elbert County. He did … Read more
Liam Neeson surprises nursing staff at Melbourne hospital by sending flowers and ‘much love and respect’ By Ali Daher For Daily Mail Australia Published: 08:29 GMT, 17 December 2020 | Updated: 08:29 GMT, 17 December 2020 Liam Neeson has been in Australia filming his new action flick Backlight in Melbourne’s outer suburbs since early November. … Read more
Nursing home residents in the U.S. will begin receiving their first coronavirus vaccines later this week. During a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) briefing on Monday, officials said the individual states will decided when elderly Americans will received Pfizzer’s jab ‘Allocations for vaccines went out to the states, to the locations that they directed, and … Read more
Vaccination teams are braced to go into care homes to give the most vulnerable the Covid jab by the end of the week. GPs are also due to start administering the Pfizer vaccine from today at 280 local centres across the UK. It means those at greatest risk will finally get the protection they need … Read more
She welcomed a baby girl with her partner Jamie Jewitt at the end of October. And Camilla Thurlow looked every inch the doting mum as she shared an adorable snap with baby Nell on Sunday. The Love Island star, 31, took to Instagram to share a snap of her baby daughter sleeping on her chest. … Read more
Care home residents are expected to begin receiving Covid jabs within days after all. Officials have devised a way to split the Pfizer vaccine into small batches suitable for distribution to them. Initial plans to make vulnerable social care residents the first to get the jab were derailed when regulators put a limit on the … Read more
Weekly coronavirus cases in US nursing homes have hit their highest peak since spring 2020, a new report finds. During the week of November 15m the latest for which data is available, more than 16,000 cases were recorded in nursing homes and assisted living facilities, the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living … Read more