New visiting guidance published – April 2024

Following previous communication relating to the new Care Quality Commission (CQC) fundamental standard on visiting and accompanying (Regulation 9A) which took effect on the 6th of April 2024, the following guidance has also now been produced:   Supporting safer...

Changes to COVID-19 Testing Guidance – April 2024

In response to the success of the COVID-19 vaccine programme, testing will only be provided to individuals at highest risk from COVID-19, continuing to support diagnosis for care and access to treatments.   THE UK Health Security Agency (UKHA) has published guidance...

COVID-19 testing and outbreaks

        We hope you had a nice Christmas and New Year. We know that some of you have seen increasing numbers of symptomatic residents over the festive period, resulting in you having to adopt outbreak measures. This was due to a wave of COVID-19...

COVID-19 and people with learning disabilities study

The following message has been supplied by the Coronavirus and People with Learning Disabilities Study team Thank you very much for those who took part in the Wave 4 survey for the Coronavirus and People with Learning Disabilities Study. All of our findings so far can...