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Lucy Gordon, Director in the Employment team at leading law firm, Walker Morris (www.walkermorris.co.uk), discusses whether employers can require staff to be vaccinated against Covid-19.
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This year’s Care Home Open Week is set to take place from the 28th June – 4th July 2021. The event encourages care homes across the country to create a fun event that helps to showcase what goes on in the UK’s many fantastic care homes.
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Care England has co-signed an open letter to the Prime Minister calling for a 1948 moment for adult social care to establish a long-term and sustainable future that will be to the benefit of all citizens and the economy.
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Brendoncare Knightwood’s staff and residents are delighted to have had the opportunity of nurturing the new ducklings that have hatched at the care home.
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Edensor Care Centre in Clacton-on-Sea wanted to create a vintage railway carriage to improve the wellbeing of its residents. The three vintage-style compartments were designed to allow COVID
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From cinema nights at home to weekly Zoom parties, families have paid tribute to support workers at a learning disability service in Bishops Stortford, following a year that has seen them provide “exemplary” care for their relatives.
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All Residents of HC-One’s Ash Court residential care home, in Knotty Ash, were overjoyed by the kindness bestowed upon them from the local community.
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Quality Compliance Systems (QCS), a major provider of content, guidance and support for the health and care sector, and Skills for Care, the workforce development and membership organisation for registered
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Over 400,000 of England’s adult social care workforce have not received a coronavirus vaccine, according to research.
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By Matt McDonald, partner and employment disputes specialist at law firm Shakespeare Martineau (www.shma.co.uk)
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Alzheimer’s Society is asking professional care workers to complete a short set of questions to find out the barriers and challenges they face in caring for people with dementia.
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By Philippa Shirtcliffe, Head of Care Quality, QCS (www.qcs.co.uk)
Most of us have experienced a sense of deep satisfaction that comes from landing a new job
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Edna Alvis, a resident at Brunelcare’s Deerhurst care home, has gone ‘viral’ on social media after her 105th birthday celebrations were recorded by BBC Radio Bristol.
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Maggie Keenan, who made history when she became the first person in the world to receive an approved COVID-19 jab in December, has praised the hard work of “incredible” NHS staff in delivering the vaccination programme,
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Alzheimer’s Research UK said the dementia crisis cannot be ignored any longer after the Office of National Statistics confirmed that dementia and Alzheimer’s disease was the leading cause of death in England in March 2021.
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