Care England, the largest representative body for care providers has responded to the consultation document issued by the Care Quality Commission, outlining its intention to…
Read more...The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is encouraging providers and the bodies that represent them to help shape the changes it has to introduce to the…
Read more...Care England has responded to the Law Commission consultation on the Mental Capacity Act Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, and is cautiously optimistic about new ‘Protective…
Read more...In the past week the Care Quality Commission has published a further 71 reports on the quality of care provided by adult social care services…
Read more...People with a learning disability and/or autism* will be supported to lead more independent lives and have greater say about the support they receive under…
Read more...Professor Haslam warned that since the NHS’ founding nearly seventy years ago, the world has changed beyond recognition, and health and social care services now…
Read more...One of NICE’s jobs is to work out the clinical and cost-effectiveness of drugs and treatments to ensure the NHS in England gets value for…
Read more...Professor Haslam said that it is important that the NHS and social care services continue to maintain public trust, and this is where NICE fits…
Read more...There are millions of acts of kindness going on within the NHS and social care services, says the Chair of NICE. Speaking at the NICE…
Read more...A suggestion from government adviser Lord Carter that NHS hospitals should unblock beds by building their own care home facilities has been questioned by the…
Read more...A joint patient safety alert has been issued by NHS England and the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to highlight the risk of…
Read more...Alzheimer’s Research UK has received a gift of £3,000 from the late Idris Evans, from Totton in Southampton. Idris died with pneumonia in January 2015,…
Read more...The event is organised by the Alzheimer’s Research UK Cardiff Network Centre based at Cardiff University and the Centre for Ageing and Dementia Research based…
Read more...As Britain’s ageing population grows older, with many of us increasingly facing the prospect of dying alone, one of the UK’s leading hospices, Somerset-based St Margaret’s,…
Read more...Plans to transform services for people with learning disabilities and or autism with behaviour that challenges have been welcomed by one of the UK’s leading…
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