A highly regarded competition to find some of the best employers in the country has demonstrated that Care UK is in the top three for the way it helps its team members to learn and develop their skills.
Read more...For Dementia Action Week, Music for Dementia is joining the Alzheimer’s Society to take action to improve the lives of people affected by dementia.
Read more...Local authority leaders have warned that the absence of a long-term, fully funded social care plan could destabilise other health and care reforms.
Read more...A care home in Hythe, Hampshire has been helping a local campaign to save the village’s ferry service to Southampton, which has been badly affected by restrictions during the pandemic.
Read more...An Alzheimer’s Society investigation, launched to mark Dementia Action Week, has revealed, even before the pandemic, tens of thousands of people with dementia were being rushed to hospital each year
Read more...The social care workforce are being urged to respond to a call for evidence which will help shape a new Women’s Health Strategy.
Read more...Coinciding with the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, International Nurses Day, held on Wednesday 12th May, is a day to celebrate nurses and care staff around the world
Read more...Staff at the charity run care centre in Essex asked their residents to hang a handwritten note asking for something that they would really love to receive on a ‘Wish Tree’ and much to all the residents absolute delight
Read more...More than 20 million UK adults have received both doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Health services across the UK have now administered a total of 56,677,012 million vaccines between 8 December and 15 May
Read more...Oake Meadows care home in Taunton has planted a memorial tree in the garden to symbolise regrowth after the pandemic.
The home, based on Wyvern Road, was gifted a willow tree by local businessman
Read more...Need to invest in social care first
A Government committee’s new care integration plans are just ‘baby steps’ towards proper reform of the way we care for older and vulnerable adults, campaigners said today.
Read more...Coinciding with the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, International Nurses Day, held on Wednesday 12th May, is a day to celebrate nurses and care staff around the world
Read more...Independent care provider Agincare has awarded all staff who have worked throughout the pandemic with a ‘Covid Hero Medal’ in recognition of their incredible courage, hard-work and dedication.
Read more...Residents and staff at care homes in the south have hailed the vital importance of ‘nursing superheroes’ on International Nurses Day.
Read more...Commenting on the Health and Social Care Committee’s report on the Government’s White Paper proposals, Daniel Mortimer, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said:
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