South Lanarkshire care home residents all receive second dose of vaccine

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The service provides essential support to enable people to live as independently as possible in their own homes.

Head over to our new Lanarkshire Live Facebook page to make sure you're up to date with the top stories in the regionNow, after care home owner Brian McNamara contacted broadband provider Openreach for help, the home has seen their speed shoot up from around 0.5Mbps to 300Mbps.Brian said: “We’re located out in the country and our links just weren’t good enough to cope with our internet demand, even before the pandemic started.

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Head over to our new Lanarkshire Live Facebook page to make sure you're up to date with the top stories in the region The service is free for South Lanarkshire Council tenants who meet certain criteria, and is also able to be booked for a charge by all other residents. A total of 14 grass cuts are carried out approximately every fortnight and include the collection and disposal of cuttings and, where required strimming to vertical edging.

Head over to our new Lanarkshire Live Facebook page to make sure you're up to date with the top stories in the regionAshgill and Netherburn (13), Blantyre South and Wheatlands (11), Calderwood East (10), Halfway, Hallside and Drumsagard (10) and Westburn and Newton (13) were the only five neighbourhoods to record at least 10 cases last week.Ashgill and Netherburn also saw the highest rate of new cases last week at 4.3 per 1000 residents.Across South Lanarkshire, 37 of the 82 neighbourhoods

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link!Conservative group leader Cllr Alex Allison (Clydesdale East) proposed that the council should write to the UK Government and congratulate them for what they have done over the past year.He said: “When I first saw this motion, a saying came to mind: A day late and a dollar short.“I don’t think it’s actually that accurate, I would maybe go a week late and £20 short.”Conservative councillor Graeme Campbell (Avondale and Stonehouse) admitted that the Chancellor “clearly isn’t able to balance

link!Barnardo’s Scotland Fostering West is asking people over 21, who have a spare room and the time and commitment to support a child, to get in touch and consider fostering.The charity offers comprehensive training and support to our foster carers, including extensive support throughout the application process, intensive induction and regular ongoing training and one to ones, as well as dedicated out-of-hours access to a social worker and a generous financial fee.Anyone interested in becoming

link."In addition the resource is projecting an impact on some of our income and loss of income due to the pandemic of £564,000 which includes early learning and childcare fees, music tuition and nursery milk."Specific funding of £7.7 million for some costs of the pandemic including for additional teachers, PPE and cleaning costs have been received by the council but, due to the council's coronavirus accounting practices, this has not been included in the education budget and will instead be

link!Trudi Marshall, Health & Social Care North Lanarkshire nurse director, who is managing the care home vaccination programme across the whole of Lanarkshire, said: “Care home residents are amongst our most vulnerable residents and this is a very worrying time for many of them.“I know it will be greatly reassuring to residents, their loved ones and staff that they have now received both doses of the vaccine.“From the very outset of this pandemic health and social care staff have worked closely

link.This can be for a number of reasons such as not being 28 days post Covid infection, being unwell on the day of vaccination or are new residents.As a result, further visits to care homes are taking place to ensure all residents are fully vaccinated as they become eligible.A 90-year-old former carer became the first resident of a care home to get the Covid-19 vaccine in Scotland, back in December.Annie Innes got the initial dose at Abercorn House in Hamilton.

East Kilbride and Strathaven have now received their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.The first health board in Scotland to vaccinate care home residents against coronavirus, NHS Lanarkshire has now vaccinated more than 3000 residents with both doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine across the region.Don't miss a thing from your area - sign up for the new Lanarkshire newsletter!From the latest breaking news to the agenda-setting stories, get it all in your email inbox.Put your email at the top

link!After a spike in cases towards the end of last week, the highest daily number of new Covid-19 cases for over a fortnight was announced on March 13 (132).Although case numbers are usually lower over the weekend, yesterday was the second consecutive day that less than 100 new cases were announced in a single day.

Imagine receiving your COVID-19 vaccination shot as Yo-Yo Ma played his cello in the background. This was a reality for a few lucky people inside a vaccination clinic at Berkshire Community College in Pittsfield, Massachusetts on March 13! The 65-year-old musician, who is a part-time resident of Massachusetts’ Berkshires region, put on the surprise performance after receiving his second dose of the COVID-19 vaccination.

link!"To be fair, I don't think anybody had envisaged 12 or 13 months ago that we would be going through Covid."Most capital projects, similar to the council, people have delayed them."However, officers have contacted Wetherspoons.

direct to your inboxThis was the heartwarming moment a care home resident was able to hold hands with her daughter for the first time in a year.Since the first coronavirus lockdown last March, Gloria Keelagher, from Fairfield, Tameside, has been visiting her mum Edith Woolhouse at Fir Trees Care Centre in Dukinfield every week.Because of national restrictions to help keep care home residents safe, she had only been able to wave through a window.But that changed this week following the latest