Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WWL) is appointing a dementia specialist Admiral Nurse onto its wards, with the support of the charity Dementia UK.
Read more...A Cambridgeshire care and rehab community has committed to providing at least the National Living Wage for its frontline care workers, as it seeks to remould perceptions of the care industry
Read more...A consultation is being launched today (September 9) on protecting patients by mandating vaccination for frontline health and social care staff in England.
Read more...The Prime Ministers social care reforms announced this week has been criticised after it emerged the new lifetime cap fails to cover food and housing for care home residents.
Read more...A total of 21 organisations supported by the Department of Health and Social Care and Minister of State for Social Care Helen Whately, have come together to launch the memorial day
Read more...Bed-bound residents at a Hertfordshire care home felt the powerful connection of animal therapy this week when a trio of Shetland ponies visited the home to bring joy and comfort
Read more...The government is seeking views on plans for staff in health and care settings in England to be required to have COVID-19 and flu vaccines to protect vulnerable people.
Read more...The Excelcare-family were delighted to welcome Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Health Secretary Sajid Javid, and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak to their Westport Care Home
Read more...Residents at Isle Court Nursing Home added to their stay-at-home travel passports with a trip to the Great British seaside.
Read more...The National Association of Care Catering (NACC) has unveiled the inspirational individuals and teams shortlisted for the NACC Awards 2021.
Read more...Councillor Bill Moy and his Consort, Mrs Dilys Moy, have visited Droitwich Spa’s latest luxury care home development, Woodland View. The Mayor and Mayoress planted the first tree in the substantial
Read more...A care home was forced to draft in staff who have Covid-19 because it had nobody else to care for its 12 residents.
The nightmare scenario happened at the Caledonia
Read more...Four in five people aged 16 and over in the UK have received both doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, the latest figures show.
A total of 43,535,098 people have received two doses (80.1%) and 48,292,811 people have received one dose (88.8%).
Read more...A social care leader is warning that a number of care homes in Wales will close unless an extra £250 million in funding is used to fix the “broken” system and tackle low pay in the sector.
Read more...Prime Minister Boris Johnson has today confirmed a tax increase for millions of British workers as the government seeks to reform social care.
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