GPs in the Surrey Heartlands CCG have started delivering Covid-19 booster jabs to people in eligible groups in the Surrey area as the biggest and most successful vaccination programme in the history
Read more...Care providers are calling on the Government to step in and tackle the crisis in social care like it is doing over petrol and food shortages.
The Independent Care Group (ICG) says the Government
Read more...Staff and residents at Hugh Myddelton House care home in Southgate held a charity coffee morning and bake sale on 24th of September to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support.
Read more...Famous faces from TV joined a sea of fundraisers this weekend at two of Alzheimer’s Society’s landmark Memory Walk events that took place on Sunday 26 September
Read more...Residents and staff at a care home in Colchester were overjoyed recently as they received a surprise visit from the Mayor of Colchester.
Read more...Principle Care Homes is to launch its first homes in Fleet and Chelmsford. Opening in Spring 2023, Heron Manor in Fleet will be the flagship care home for Principle, a new entrant to the sector
Read more...Six individuals have been honoured with a Royal Patron’s Award by The Abbeyfield Society.
The Royal Patron’s Awards are endorsed by HRH The Prince of Wales and awarded every year
Read more...A Worthing care home has been praised by both residents and relatives for its safe and caring environment, “family atmosphere” and “good leadership” both during and following the coronavirus pandemic.
Read more...Social care charity ENABLE Scotland is seeking to raise the basic rate of pay for its frontline workforce to £10 per hour from 1st October 2021.
Read more...Whistleblowing in the UK’s care sector rose to its highest recorded level in 2020, driven by health and safety concerns brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
Read more...From a VIP luxury train ride to playing Vegas casino slot machines, can you help to make a care home resident’s wish become reality?
Read more...Exemplar Health Care is encouraging its residents to express their creativity in conjunction with National Arts in Care Homes Day.
Read more...A generational change in how we treat patients in England is needed if the NHS is to address spiralling waiting lists and ensure the ‘missing’ 7 million patients who are not on the official waiting
Read more...The crisis in the energy sector could engulf the care sector forcing some homes to close as an extortionate increase caused by a trebling of wholesale gas contracts over the last five months hits the sector.
Read more...The new Minister for Care, Gillian Keegan MP, visited Royal Star & Garter in Surbiton to mark World Alzheimer’s Day on Tuesday 21 September.
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