Care Home Residents Set For Dementia Awareness Drive
Homes host week of activities as part of national campaign Hill Care homes across the North East will be encouraging residents to take part in…
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Triumph For West Midlands Care Workers At Worldskills UK Caring Competition
South and City College Birmingham hosted the first two heats for the West Midlands region WorldSkills UK 2014 Health and Social Care Competitions on 13…
Read more...15-Minute Visits To The Elderly And Disabled By Carers To Be Phased Out By A Labour Government
Ed Miliband is likley to unveil later today (Thursday 15 May) plans for a “care charter” which would raise standards, prevent care workers being exploited…
Read more...Election manifestos must reflect real issues facing NHS and social care
A coalition of health and care stakeholders has challenged political parties to accept seven ‘burning issues’ facing the health and care system, and to produce…
Read more...Labour Announces GP Access Plans
Labour will invest £100 million into general practice to improve access to GPs if it wins the next general election, the party’s leader Ed Milliband…
Read more...Response To Baroness Kingsmill’s Report Into Working Conditions In The Care Sector
Media reports suggest Baroness Kingsmill’s report into working conditions in the care sector will say exploitation of care workers is leaving older people at risk….
Read more...Care And Support Minister And Cambridge MP Visit Alzheimer’s Research UK
Norman Lamb, the Minister for Care and Support, and Cambridge MP Julian Huppert paid a visit to Alzheimer’s Research UK, the UK’s leading dementia research…
Read more...Significant Variation In Standards Of Care For People Dying In Hospitals
The National Care of the Dying Audit for Hospitals led by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) today reports (Thursday 15 May) significant variations in…
Read more...Afternoon Tea Parties Top The Menu For Care Homes As Unilever Food Solutions Joins Forces With NAPA
Afternoon tea fever is set to take hold in care homes throughout the country as part of a competition organised by NAPA (National Activity Providers…
Read more...Exploitation Of Care Workers Is Leaving Older People At Risk
A recent report published by Baroness Kingsmill has criticised the state of the care workforce in which she says that she has never seen so…
Read more...Report Investigates How Councils Using Better Care Fund
MHP Health has published ‘All in this Together?’, investigating how councils are using the Better Care Fund. Integration is at the top of politicians’ and…
Read more...Antidepressant Slows Production Of Alzheimer’s Protein
Scientists in the US have found that an antidepressant slows production of a known Alzheimer’s protein, amyloid, in mice and in healthy younger people. The…
Read more...Care Agencies Opt Out Of Zero Hour Contracts For Powys Staff
TWO LEADING Welsh care companies working together are ‘going beyond the care industry norm’ to provide a service to Powys residents by offering staff an…
Read more...Dying Matters Awareness Week
Millions of Britons are failing to make adequate plans for their death and don’t know the wishes of their loved ones, according to a new…
Read more...Giant Leap For High-Flying Maureen
A brave grandmother hit the heights for a Hampshire children’s charity with a 10,000-ft sky dive. Novice free-faller Maureen Bennett, who works for care home…
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