A fair deal on health and social care
27 Nov 2024
Employment and Support Assessment
Employment and Support Assessment (ESA) is an income replacement benefit for people below state pension age. If someone has a health condition or di sability, and for that reason are...
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13 Nov 2024
Excess winter mortality
This analysis presents data from the Office for National Statistics showing the Excess Winter Mortality for a chosen local authority for the years 1991/92 to 2020/21. The local authority position...
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25 Jan 2021
COVID-19 vaccination sites out of reach for hundreds of thousands in England
The Financial Times reports that ‘hundreds of thousands’ of people in England without access to a car are likely to struggle to reach their nearest COVID-19 vaccination centre, deepening ‘postcode...
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11 Jan 2021
Army will fly vaccines to remote rural areas stranded by flooding to keep rollout on track
Newspapers, including The Sun and The Telegraph, have reported that specialist teams from the Armed Forces are on stand-by to fly COVID-19 vaccines to remote rural areas of the country...
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04 Jan 2021
Parents and teachers face ‘confusing picture’ over school closures
ITV has reported on the new plans set out by Education Secretary Gavin Williamson MP (Con) for the start of the school term in England, amid rising pressures over the...
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04 Jan 2021
Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine approved in UK
County Times has reported on news last week that a COVID-19 vaccine from Oxford University and AstraZeneca has been approved for use in the UK, paving the way for mass...
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04 Jan 2021
Walking challenge to raise money for farming charities
Farming Today has reported that rural communities are being encouraged to take part in walking challenges to raise money for countryside charities tackling barriers to ‘rural thriving’ As well as...
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21 Dec 2020
Chris Whitty warns of looming health crisis over rural elderly who risk missing out on NHS care
The Daily Mail has reported on warnings from Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty this week that elderly people suffering from serious illnesses will be ‘left behind’ with no access...
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21 Dec 2020
COVID-19 will have a long-term impact on rural communities
The Conversation writes that rural communities, in particular, will be hit hard by the long-term consequences of the pandemic Noting that the closure of local pubs and community centres in...
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21 Dec 2020
Make use of local resources to achieve rural roll-out of the vaccine
Jamie Stone MP (LibDem), writes in PoliticsHome this week that for rural constituencies the vaccine presents several new problems As rural communities often contain a higher proportion of older people...
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