Following the Government statement saying that it will allow local authorities to increase council tax bills by 3% for each of the next two years…
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The Government must show leadership and spell out the detail of how health and social care reform will be achieved, the BMA has demanded. BMA…
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Elsie, 95, and Tony, 75, who are both residents at Care UK’s Broadwater Lodge care home, surprised everyone by announcing their engagement and then agreeing…
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A Saffron Walden grandad determined to still have fun at 94 has raised hundreds of pounds for Alzheimer’s Research UK after dressing up as Father…
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Residents at Wythenshaw-based care home, The Peele, enjoyed a festive morning of arts, crafts and carols with pupils from Crossacres Primary Academy. In the lead…
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To say that the care industry is shocked that there was no reference to social care funding in the Chancellor’s Autumn statement would be an…
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Coroners will no longer be required to hold an inquest for anyone who dies while subject to the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), following an…
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Eli Lilly and Company has announced that their drug solanezumab has failed to meet its primary endpoint of slowing cognitive decline in people with mild…
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Leading figures in the care industry have responded to yesterday’s Autumn statement by the Chancellor, Mike Padgham chair of the Independent Care Group said that…
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95-year-old resident, Mr. Allan Norman, celebrated with friends and family last Saturday (12th November) as he received the Legion d’honneur (Legion of Honour) award at…
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A gathering of social care providers has been told it needs to raise the volume of its protests over the crisis hitting the sector. The…
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One hundred top British and Dutch experts in the field of long-term elderly care will gather in Utrecht, The Netherlands, on 18-19 November 2016 to…
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A carer at a family-owned Dorset dementia home has won two coveted awards in the space of a week. Meg Austin, a Healthcare Assistant at…
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Responding to Scottish Care’s warning of intolerable nursing shortages, with 28 per cent of nursing posts vacant in the care home sector and 98 per…
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