NHS dental services need to become more easily available to care home residents if their oral health is to be improved in future years, the…
Read more...The Care `Quality Commission (CQC) is reviewing the content of its adult social care Provider Information Return (PIR) and is seeking feedback from providers. This…
Read more...The government has made 6 commitments to the public to end variation in end of life care across the health system by 2020. These are:…
Read more...Researchers in the US have shown that genes associated with the risk of Alzheimer’s disease could be exerting an effect on the brain well before…
Read more...Today the Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG) launches a new report on how social care providers are embracing technology to improve services. The group argues…
Read more...Two fundraisers have raised an enormous £27,000 for Alzheimer’s Research UK after hosting a charity walk in the Surrey countryside. Patrick Franklin-Adams was diagnosed with…
Read more...Residents at St Cross Grange care home in Winchester, a Greensleeves Care home, have been given new special aprons which provide visual and tactile stimulation…
Read more...The National Council for Palliative has given a broad welcome to the Government’s response to What’s Important to Me: a review of choice in end…
Read more...Some 1.3 million older people spend the equivalent of two months a year without seeing anyone according to a poll. A OnePoll/Bluebird Care survey of…
Read more...Ahead of the British Grand Prix, the three-time F1 world champion is launching a mission to find a cure for dementia, in a bid to…
Read more...Care England, the largest representative body for independent social care providers, has responded to the publication of the review into failings at Southern Health Foundation…
Read more...Hicare embraces Care Home Open Day to celebrate the Queen’s 90th birthday For Care Home Open Day 2016, Hicare Homes, Leicester hosted a Royal themed…
Read more...Dovecote care home in High Spen welcomed the community in through their doors to celebrate National Care Home Open Day. The doors of Dovecote were…
Read more...FOI requests reveal disabled people and carers actually worse off since the launch of the Care Act. National disabled people’s charity Revitalise has responded to…
Read more...Responding to a new report by the Carers Trust – “Care Act for carers: One year on” – the Local Government Association’s Portfolio Holder for…
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