Author: <span>Richard</span>
22 Sep 2020
September Edition of Casebook from the Rural Health and Care Alliance
September 2020 Edition Welcome to your September edition of Casebook, a dedicated, monthly e-newsletter for Rural Health Care Alliance members. This month, as the second wave begins to bite there...
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22 Sep 2020
September Edition of Casebook – Health Funding Opportunities from the Rural Health and Care Alliance
This month’s featured funding opportunities are: This month’s featured funding opportunities are: ISCF Healthy Ageing Challenge Social, Behavioural & Design Research Programme https://www.ukri.org/funding/funding-opportunities/iscf-healthy-ageing-challenge-social-behavioural-design-research-programme-outline-stage/ UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), via the...
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21 Sep 2020
Warning Over Access to Covid-19 Testing for Rural Social Care Sector
WARNING OVER ACCESS TO COVID-19 TESTING FOR RURAL SOCIAL CARE SECTOR Fears also raised for closure of rural care homes if funding gap not plugged Social care staff and users...
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21 Sep 2020
Successful Rural Conference
For a full week, the Rural Services Network hosted almost 400 delegates at it’s annual National Rural Conference. Last week, as an alternative to its usual conference in Cheltenham, the...
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21 Sep 2020
Putting the Rural Voice into Climate Action
Article written by David Cope, Countryside Climate Network Coordinator David Cope, UK100’s Countryside Climate Network Coordinator, spoke at the Rural Service Network’s annual conference Revitalising Rural on Thursday. In this adaption of David’s talk,...
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21 Sep 2020
North-south divide in housing targets
The Times has reported on analysis suggesting that a new housebuilding algorithm will mean that northern councils may have reduced house-building targets, while huge numbers of homes are built in...
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21 Sep 2020
Warning over access to COVID-19 testing for rural social care sector
Papers including the Northumberland Gazette, Care Talk and Hexham Courant have identified critical challenges in delivering social care services during the pandemic, with four in five rural social care workers...
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21 Sep 2020
Plymouth University: Levelling up our digital health strategy
The New Statesman has published an article sponsored by Plymouth University arguing that the digital divide in Britain needs to be addressed for digital health progress to be made in...
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21 Sep 2020
North-South divide in COVID-19 cases and testing
Several newspapers, including the Northern Echo, have reported that rural residents are unhappy that they have been brought into lockdown when cases are not as high there as other parts...
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21 Sep 2020
Extortionate rural broadband quote
The Metro has reported on the case of a retired man living in rural England who was quoted half a million pounds to install high speed Wi-Fi in his home...
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