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Need to nominate one relative to be a safe visitor
Care providers have written to the Government calling for a single, nominated, and tested visitor to be allowed to visit a family member in care and nursing homes.
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By Thomas Owens, senior copywriter at Webster Wheelchairs (https://websterwheelchairs.co.uk)
If there is one disease more dreadful than cancer diagnosis, then Alzheimer’s might be it. There are few illnesses that are more draining, emotionally,
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By Daniel Casson, Adviser on Digital Transformation at Care England
A fascinating report has just been released by Future Care Capital (FCC) and Ipsos MORI on the use of social media analysis by frontline workers during the
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Those who stand up for what is right have always been integral to the moral wellbeing of our society. They are moral barometers. Our attitude towards them is
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During this current period, it’s even more imperative that we consider relationship-centred care and explore ways that we can connect more with the
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Yesterday evening, the government published the grant conditions for round two of the Infection Control Fund, which sets out how an additional £546 million of funding is to be used to reduce
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Measures introduced to protect older people from COVID-19 may be as detrimental as the virus itself, according to local charitable organisation Belong.
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Responding to the Prime Minister‘s announcement of the 40 hospitals that will be built by 2030 as part of the package worth £3.7 billion of extra capital investment for the NHS
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A resident from Willowbeck, one of the Exemplar Health Care specialist care homes in Sheffield, has raised nearly £1700 in one day for wildlife charities Born Free and Animal Asia.
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Key failings included decisions to discharge thousands of untested hospital patients into care homes and imposition of blanket DNARs
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A national online campaign launched by author and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth to bring young and old together to share the joy of poems has been boosted by a Royal recital.
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From cute carrots to beautiful beans, and radiant roses to delightful daffs, a bumper crop of entries has energised a care home provider’s second annual produce show.
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Care home residents have been raising funds for the fight against dementia with a sponsored charity walk. Fairmile Grange care home in Christchurch recently held a
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With social care and planning reform high on the Conservative Party’s agenda as it begins its annual conference online, the housing-with-care sector has urged the party to back new ways
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Responding to the latest NHS test and trace figures, Dr Layla McCay, director at the NHS Confederation, said:
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