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Montana doctors and nurses urge vaccination and masking to squash rising COVID numbers

On Thursday, medical and nursing organizations, representing thousands of Montana health care workers across the state, came together with a unified message urging people to get vaccinated and wear a mask to knock down COVID numbers, protect communities and help keep kids in schools this fall.

MPs call for Covid ban on care home visits in England to be made illegal

MPs call for Covid ban on care home visits in England to be made illegal Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP A parliamentary human rights committee has called on ministers to legislate against blanket bans on care home visits in England that relatives claim are causing deaths through loneliness and isolation. Harriet Harman, the chair of the cross-party joint human rights committee of MPs and peers, has asked the health secretary, Matt Hancock, to require care homes to allow face-to-face visits – including without screens – unless an individual safety assessment judges it unsafe. It comes amid rising anger among relatives as many care homes remain shut to all but end-of-life visits in an attempt to keep out new fast-spreading Covid variants. This is despite government guidance that they should set visiting policy “on the basis of a dynamic risk assessment taking into consideration the needs of

New £120m fund to provide boost for care sector staffing levels

New £120m fund to provide boost for care sector staffing levels David Connett © Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian Covid outbreaks in care homes have increased three-fold in the past month. The Covid-stricken care home and domiciliary care sector is to get an extra £120m government funding to help boost depleted staff levels, ministers announced on Saturday night. The funds would help increase staff numbers, said the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). Ministers said the aim was to help local authorities plug worker shortages and allow additional staff to take on administrative tasks, freeing up skilled colleagues to provide care. It could also help existing staff work extra hours with overtime payments or by covering childcare costs, the DHSC said.

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