New Project To Highlight Challenges Facing Unpaid Carers In The Workplace
Carers Trust and Simplyhealth have launched a new project to highlight the challenges unpaid carers face applying for jobs and in the workplace. The project,…
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Highlights
Blood Tests For Diagnosing Dementia A Step Closer For UK
Two world-class research teams will carry out countrywide trials to identify accurate and quick blood tests that can diagnose dementia, in a bid to improve…
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Care Homes Face Increased Wage Bill From April 1st as New NLW Comes Into Force
The National Living Wage (NLW) has risen by 9.8% from £10.42 to £11.44, an increase of £1.02, the largest ever increase in the minimum wage…
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Government Falls Short Of Promise To Fix Care Crisis Report Reveals
Government is falling short on its promise to “fix the crisis in social care” as chronic understaffing, rising waiting lists and patchwork funding place sustained…
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Introducing The Carer Recruitment – Your Premier Destination for Adult Social Care Hiring Solutions!
We are thrilled to announce the launch of THE CARER Recruitment, the latest addition to our growing portfolio! As the leading UK residential and nursing…
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Sector Dismay to Chancellor’s Budget “Social care the Loser Once Again”
Social care providers have warned that a lack of extra funding for the sector in today’s budget will undermine efforts to help the NHS. The…
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“Gaping Chasm” In Social Care Funding Warns MHA
There’s a gaping chasm between government funding for social care and the cost of providing care, MHA Chief Executive Sam Monaghan was warned, ahead of…
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MPs Publish Report On Assisted Dying/Assisted Suicide
The Health and Social Care Committee has published its report on Assisted Dying/Assisted Suicide (AD/AS) Committee chair, Steve Brine MP, said he hoped it will…
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MPs and Peers Launch Survey to Gather Unpaid Carers’ Views On Their Call for a New National Carers Strategy
A cross-party group of MPs and Peers have launched a new survey to gather the views of unpaid carers and organisations who represent them on…
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Development And Sale Of Alzheimer’s Drug, Aducanumab, Ceased
The pharmaceutical company, Biogen, announced this week that it will stop developing and marketing the Alzheimer’s drug aducanumab (commercially known as Aduhelm). Aducanumab is designed…
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Times Healthcare Report Highlights Mounting NHS Issues
A report commissioned by The Times revealed the considerable pressures that the health and social care sector is facing. The Times launched the Health Commission…
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Care UK Lights the Way for D-Day Commemoration in Care Homes Across the UK
Care UK’s 155 homes will be commemorating D-Day this summer as part of D-Day 80. One of the many acts of commemoration this year is…
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Vital Talks Over North Yorks Social Care as Funding Crisis Deepens
CARE providers in North Yorkshire are holding top-level talks with the local council to tackle a funding crisis which threatens the care of vulnerable people…
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Over 40 MPs Urge The Government To Re-Think Local Authority Funding Plans
A large cohort of county MPs – including 44 Conservatives and seven former cabinet members within this group – have written to the Prime Minister…
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A Heartwarming Project Supporting Elderly Care Home Residents Will Be Rolled Out Across North Wales
A community interest company Book of You, based in Ruthin, has extended its the Care Home Buddy scheme to include Wrexham, Flintshire, Anglesey, and Gwynedd…
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