Business Secretary calls on businesses to continue supporting vaccine rollout
Kwasi Kwarteng called on businesses to continue to support the national effort in rolling out the coronavirus vaccine, as pledges from individual companies grow.
From:
17 February 2021
Kwasi Kwarteng today (Wednesday 17 February) called on businesses to continue supporting the national vaccine rollout effort as companies pledged their own initiatives
companies including IKEA, Timpson and the John Lewis Partnership are already stepping up, including offering paid time off for employees to receive their jab and volunteer, as well as offering workspace for vaccination centres
support from business comes as the number of people vaccinated in the UK reaches 15 million
GAMBICA Chief Executive, Steve Brambley, has written to Vaccine Minister, Nadhim Zahawi, offering to identify reputable and cost-effective suppliers to help get vaccines to UK residents. Click to read more.
Fears for public health as Hancock seeks greater powers
Concern has been expressed that public health could face further organisational turmoil as a result of measures to be set out by the health secretary today.
Matt Hancock will unveil a health white paper which has been widely leaked in advance. Although it focuses largely on integrating care and overturning the contentious reforms undertaken by the coalition government, it will also centralise much power and responsibility with the health secretary.
Although the bill to follow the white paper is, according to the draft document, “not the vehicle” for wholesale public health reform, it does state: “We will bring forward measures to make it easier for the secretary of state to direct NHS England to take on specific public health functions.”
Richard Humphries: The hunt for good leadership in social care
Co-produced local leadership is the best way forward, writes the senior fellow at the King’s Fund in a blog that was originally published on the King’s Fund website, here.
Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, Don Berwick reminded us of the intense demands the crisis was making of leaders, greater than even those of us in the autumn of our careers can ever remember. This applies no less to those leading social care services – in care homes, home care services and other less visible settings. So this has been a timely juncture to capture, in our new report, the findings of interviews with 40 people in seven very different parts of England about the nature of leadership in the sector. Where does it lie? How effective is it? What might be done to improve it?
Surge testing to be rolled out in six areas around Manchester after Covid variant found somersetlive.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from somersetlive.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.