In response to one of the toughest Coronavirus challenges – the need to keep life as normal as possible for care home residents living with dementia – a local activities organiser has revised plans for spring with…
Read more...Responding to today’s Downing Street briefing, Dr Layla McCay, director at the NHS Confederation, which represents organisations across the healthcare sector, said: “The public has…
Read more...Almost 5,000 former staff are now back on the NHS front line after coming out of retirement to support the coronavirus effort. The returning doctors,…
Read more...Care home residents and patients across Surrey are now able to keep in touch with friends and family, thanks to newly introduced video calling devices…
Read more...Care leaders have called on the government to publish a comprehensive plan to support social care through the coronavirus crisis. The letter to Secretary of…
Read more...A member of staff at a care home in Warrington has been nominated in a regional initiative to acknowledge going ‘above and beyond’ during the…
Read more...Residents at more than 75 care homes across the UK will no longer have to wait for the morning post to receive well-wishes from family…
Read more...Responding to the Government’s announcement of its social care plan for dealing with coronavirus, Cllr Ian Hudspeth, Chairman of the Local Government Association’s Community Wellbeing…
Read more...Stereotyping people in later life and treating all over-65s as a single group could be damaging their physical and mental health, according to a report…
Read more...Social care experts, Autumna, are calling for greater transparency in the care sector so it can better support the NHS and families, as the government…
Read more...Singer and song-writer Robert Jerome is a great favourite among residents of Willows Care Home. So when the recent lockdown prevented him from visiting in…
Read more...Industry organisations and leaders have responded to the government’s action plan for social care: VODG says that it welcomes the government’s efforts to produce an…
Read more...Better access to testing, millions of additional PPE items, expansions to the workforce and a new brand to further recognise the sector’s contribution to society…
Read more...A new IPPR/YouGov poll of UK healthcare professionals responding to the Covid-19 crisis reveals how deeply concerned they are about their safety. When asked if…
Read more...Responding to the latest ONS figures on deaths from COVID-19 in the community, which show that up until 3 April around 10 per cent of…
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