Providers’ dismay at response to Covid-19
Care providers say it “beggars belief” how little knowledge of and power over the care sector Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock had during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read more...A staff member from Meallmore care home, Mearns House in Newton Mearns, is celebrating after reaching the final in a baking competition.
Read more...When the residents at Brook House were discussing the upcoming of Volunteer Week they automatically thought of Postcards of Kindness and wanted to say a Massive Thank You to them.
Read more...New analysis from Age UK has found that during the second wave of the pandemic, the numbers of over-65s in the UK who were providing unpaid care for someone almost doubled to more than four million
Read more...In mid-May, Ireland’s National Health Service (HSE) was infiltrated by hackers. The ransomware attack affected many of the Health Safety Executive’s local and national IT systems.
Read more...Family care home connections guided the progress of a happy wedding day in the New Forest. As soon as they tied the knot at Ringwood…
Read more...ASPIRING musicians from Edinburgh College blew care home residents away during a private garden concert.
Read more...The government is being taken to the High Court over its guidance instructing that care home residents isolate for 14 days on first admission to a care home and when they return from an overnight visit outside the home.
Read more...Encore Care Homes has launched the UK’s first care home Rapid Response Team (RRT) to help older people in a care crisis.
Read more...Staff and residents at Barchester’s Magnolia court care home in Hampstead had a fantastic time celebrating National Fish & Chip Day on Friday 4th June, surely one of the best days of the year!
Read more...Responding to the Health and Social Care committee’s report “Workforce burnout and resilience in the NHS and social care”, Dr Katherine Henderson, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said:
Read more...The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that it has granted a licence for the drug aducanumab (known commercially as Aduhelm) in people with Alzheimer’s disease in the US
Read more...More than half of health and social care workers have considered quitting
64% have gone to work sick because they couldn’t afford to take time off
Exemplar Health Care is launching a training programme for its colleagues to help normalise discussions around sex and disabilities within care homes.
Read more...Pledge follows campaigner’s visit to Westminster
A Government minister has promised to visit care on the frontline following a visit by a campaigner battling to get the Government to tackle a crisis in the way we look after older and vulnerable people.
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