RCN Scotland Calls For Budget To Prioritise Health And Care Services
The Scottish budget must prioritise health and care services and set out investment to grow and develop Scotland’s nursing workforce, according to the Royal College…
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Dementia Is “The UK’s Biggest Killer” Research Reveals
New analysis from Alzheimer’s Research UK, has confirmed that dementia continues to be the UK’s leading cause of death, accounting for more than one in…
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Registration For The Care Show London, On 24-25 April At Excel London, Is Now Live
The Care Show will be bringing its celebration of the care sector to the nation’s capital for the first time this spring. Free to attend…
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Still Time For Government To Stop Strikes If It Puts Forward ‘Credible’ Final Offer, Says BMA
Responding to comments made by that the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care suggesting that junior doctors walked out of talks before an…
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Care Home Residents Enjoy A Christmas Singalong With Vocal Coach Dan Cooper
Staff and residents at Austen House care home in Lower Earley, Readingwere treated to a fun-packed hour in the company of choir leader and vocal coach to the stars,…
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Scrooge Council Awarded Wooden Spoon In PPE Row
A council has been awarded a wooden spoon for paying the lowest care home fees in Wales and refusing to hand out free personal protective…
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Longevity Experts Set Out Bold Solutions To Maximise The Opportunity Of Longer Lives
Financial incentives for exercising, a leg up to adulthood with a ‘decent start’ lump sum payment for school leavers and allowing bereaved or separated individuals…
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Creative Health Could Help Ailing NHS Health And Social Care Systems Report Reveals
Today, Wednesday 6 December, the National Centre for Creative Health and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing have published a major report, the Creative Health Review: How Policy…
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NHS Urges People To Get Winter Jabs With Two Weeks Until Online Bookings Close
With just two weeks until online bookings for COVID and flu vaccines close, the NHS is urging anyone still eligible for these vaccines to book…
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NIHR Invests A Further £55m To Tackle Health Inequalities Through Local Government Research
Millions of people will benefit from a further £55 million research investment to tackle health inequalities and improve health outcomes in local areas across the…
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Discharging Patients into Care Homes Would be ‘Appropriate’, Covid Inquiry Hears
The Covid inquiry has heard from a top government adviser that that discharging positive Covid patients into care homes would be “entirely clinically appropriate” while…
Read more...Long-Term Work Needed To Solve Hospital Discharge Delays, Says The King’s Fund Report
Local heath and care systems lack a shared understanding of the causes of hospital discharge delays in their area and of the best ways of…
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Juggling Work and Unpaid Care Causes Carers to Leave the Workplace
Caring responsibilities for relatives or friends who are older, disabled or seriously ill are having a significant impact on people’s capacity to work and earn…
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AGE UK Urges Older People – Get COVID-19 Booster and & Flu Jab
Age UK is urging eligible older people to do all they can to stay well and have their COVID-19 and flu vaccinations, as soon as…
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NHS Dementia Diagnosis Rates At Three-Year High
The NHS is diagnosing tens of thousands more people with dementia since the start of the pandemic, thanks to NHS recovery efforts.
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