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- Arrangements for visiting out of the care home – updated 27.5.21
- Testing for Home Care Workers – Information for employers – updated 20.5.21
- Care home testing guidance for staff and residents – new LFD and PCR regime – updated 20.5.21
- LFD self-testing for care home workers at home – updated 20.5.21
- New Outbreak Guidance – upated 20.5.21
- Clinically Extremely Vulnerable Guidance – updated 19.5.21
- PPE Portal (Clipper) – updated 18.5.21
- COVID-19 How to work safely in care homes Updated 17.5.21
- Visiting Guidance for Supported Living Settings – updated 17.5.21
- Supported Living Guidance – updated updated 17.5.21
- Designated settings for people discharged to a care home – updated 17.5.21
- Visiting arrangements in care homes – updated 14.5.21
- Testing for Home Care Workers – information for employees updated 14.5.21
- Testing for Adult Day Care Centre Workers updated 30.4.21
- List of LRF and LA contacts for PPE – updated 23.4.21
- Testing for Personal Assistants updated 22.4.21
- Workforce Capacity Fund – updated 22.4.21
- Testing for Extra Care and Supported Living Settings updated 22.4.21
- Infection Control and Rapid Testing Fund Grant Conditions – 8.4.21
- COVID-19 How to work safely in domicilliary care updated 6.4.21
- Extension of free PPE until March 2022 – 1.4.21
- Admissions to care home guidance– Updated 17.5.21
- Restricting workforce movement between care homes and other care settings – 3.3.21
- Adult Social Care Rapid Testing Fund – 15.1.21
- Arrangements for visiting out of the care home – updated 27.5.21
- National Flu and COVID-19 surveillance reports – updated 27.5.21
- Supporting people outside of their home – updated 21.5.21
- Lateral Flow Testing of visitors in care homes guidance – updated 20.5.21
- Test and Trace Guidance – Updated 20.5.21
- Testing for Home Care Workers – Information for employers – updated 20.5.21
- Guidance on accessing testing – Updated 20.5.21
- Care home testing guidance for staff and residents – new LFD and PCR regime – updated 20.5.21
- LFD self-testing for care home workers at home – updated 20.5.21
- New Outbreak Guidance – upated 20.5.21
- Clinically Extremely Vulnerable Guidance – updated 19.5.21
- COVID-19 Vaccination programme – updated 19.5.21
- PPE Portal (Clipper) – updated 18.5.21
- COVID-19 How to work safely in care homes Updated 18.5.21
- Supported Living Guidance – updated 17.5.21
- COVID-19 How to work safely in domicilliary care updated 18.5.21
- Letter from Minister for Care about Infection Control and Testing Fund – 1.4.21
- Extension of free PPE until March 2022 – 1.4.21
- Designated settings for people discharged to a care home – updated 17.5.21
- Admissions to care home guidance– Updated 17.5.21
- Guidance on the provision of home care – updated 17.5.21
- Visiting arrangements in care homes – updated 14.5.21
- Testing for Home Care Workers – information for employees updated 14.5.21
- Testing for Adult Day Care Centre Workers updated 30.4.21
- List of LRF and LA contacts for PPE – updated 23.4.21
- Testing for Personal Assistants updated 22.4.21
- Testing for Extra Care and Supported Living Settings updated 22.4.21
- Workforce Capacity Fund – updated 22.4.21
- Infection Control and Rapid Testing Fund Grant Conditions – 8.4.21
- Letter from Minister for Care about Infection Control and Testing Fund – 1.4.21
- Extension of free PPE until March 2022 – 1.4.21
- QCOVID & COVID-19 Population Risk Assessment – 16.2.21
- Management of staff and exposed patients and residents in health and social care settings – updated 28.1.21
- Guidance for managing a funeral during the coronavirus pandemic – updated 22.1.21
- CPA guide to Enhanced Care in Care Homes – 18.1.21
- Adult Social Care Rapid Testing Fund – 15.1.21
- Containing and managing local COVID-19 Outbreaks (LA powers) – updated 29.12.20
- Guidance for stepdown of infection control procedures within hospitals and discharging COVID-19 patients from hospital to home settings – updated 18.12.20
- Regulating COVID-19 Testing – CQC – updated 15.12.20
- Social Care Winter Plan– updated 14.12.20
- Face Coverings – Updated 4.12.20
- COVID-19 Winter Plan – updated 2.12.20
- Principles of safe singing – 20.11.20
- Keeping Singing Going – Music for Dementia – 20.11.20
- Flu immunisation guidance for social care staff and providers – 19.11.20
- DHSC PPE Q&A – 23.10.20
- Designation Scheme Information – 13.10.20
- Social Care Taskforce Report – updated 12.10.20
- PHE Surveillance reports – updated 2.10.20
- NCF Analysis of ICF Round 2 grant conditions – 1.10.20
- PPE Strategy – updated 29.9.20
- Guidance for first responders and those in close contact with symptomatic people – Updated 22.9.20
- Infection Control Fund Information – updated 21.9.20
- NCF Analysis of Social Care Taskforce Recommendations versus Winter Plan – 21.9.20
- NHS Test and Trace QR Codes – Advice for NHS and care homes – 21.9.20
- Letter from Stuart Miller (DHSC) to care sector about rising cases – 11.9.20
- Increased Restrictions from 14 September – 9.9.20
- Expansion of saliva testing trials and wider capacity – 3.9.20
- Weekly Dataset on Care Home outbreak reporting – updated 27.8.20
- Guidance for public health officers: potentially infectious persons– updated 26.8.20
- Guidance on using PPE for non-aerosol generating procedures – Updated 21.8.20
- Stop using Randox Testing Kits -updated 8.8.20
- NCF Analysis of Supported Living Guidance – 6.8.20
- Announcement of rapid 90-minute saliva testing – 3.8.20
- Letter from DHSC Revision of Whole Homes Testing Schedule – 31.7.20
- Testing Matrix – 31.7.20
- Health and Care workers to self-isolate on return from high-risk countries – Updated 31.7.20
- Extension of self-isolation period – 30.7.20
- IPC guidance for stepdown in hospital or discharge to home or residential settings. – 30.7.20
- Letter from Minister for Care about infection control fund – 29.7.20
- Revised testing factsheet – 27.7.20
- Expansion of Flu Vaccination programme – 24.7.20
- NCF Analysis of visitor to care home guidance – 22.7.20
- Making your own face coverings – 15.7.20
- Care Home Support: Council Transparency Data – 9.7.20
- Extension of Tax Cut to VAT until end of October – 3.7.20
- Announcement of re-testing for care homes – 3.7.20
- DHSC letter – New Testing Strategy – 3.7.20
- Local Outbreaks Plans Explainer – 3.7.20
- Unlocking Lockdown for day centres – 3.7.20
- Guidance for taking swab samples – 2.7.20
- Exceedances in Leicester – 1.7.20
- Cardinal Mask Recall – 26.6.20
- NCF’s analysis of admission to care home guidance – 19.6.20
- HSE warning on KN95 Masks – 11.6.20
- Expansion of whole home testing – 5.6.20
- Infection Control Grant FAQs – 5.6.20
- FAQ on LA Care Home Support Planning – 22.5.20
- Note on the Capacity Tracker – 22.5.20
- Allocation table for the £600m – 18.5.20
- Letter from Rosamond Roughton – Roll out of whole care home testing – 13.5.20
- Factsheet – Care Home Testing (aimed at Directors of Public Health) -13.5.20
- New Testing Route Announced by Minister for Care– 7.5.20
- Answers to questions NCF Members asked us to pose to PHE – 6.5.20