The UK’s National Advance Care Plan Day, 2026
The UK’s National Advance Care Planning Day highlights the importance of Advance Care Planning, Advance Care Plans and sensitive conversations.
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Hospice Care
People with Learning Disabilities Support Marie Curie to Update End of Life Care Resources
People with learning disabilities have been supporting a leading end of life charity to create new accessible resources around the topics of terminal illness, death, dying and bereavement – after research found they are often not involved in conversations about the subject or told when someone close to them will die.
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Farewell To Remember: Mayor And Brass Band Honour Hospice Partnership
Kings Lodge Care Home, Camberley, waved an emotional goodbye to the Phyllis Tuckwell In-Patient Unit which has been based there since 2023 with the fanfare of a brass band and support of all its staff, residents, management, and an appearance from the mayor.
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CQC Calls for Immediate Action as Supreme Court Rewrites Deprivation of Liberty Rules
Care providers have been urged to review their practices without delay following a landmark Supreme Court ruling that fundamentally changes how deprivation of liberty is determined in England and Wales.
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New ‘Caroline Quentin’ Rose Launched in Support of St Peter’s Hospice
A new rose has been launched by garden experts Thompson & Morgan, named in honour of actress, presenter and passionate gardener Caroline Quentin, and in…
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Surrey Care Home Bids Fond Farewell to Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice with Ceremony
Kings Lodge Care Home, Camberley, is waving farewell to the Phyllis Tuckwell In-Patient Unit which has been based there since 2023. Phyllis Tuckwell provides expert…
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MP Darren Jones Officially Opens Newly Refurbished Offices At St Peter’s Hospice
St Peter’s Hospice has officially unveiled its newly refurbished first-floor offices at its Brentry site in Bristol, with local MP Darren Jones attending to formally…
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Marie Curie Announces New £500,000 ‘Care Close To Home’ Research Fund
Marie Curie, the UK’s leading end of life charity, is today announcing funding to support research into improving palliative and end of life care in…
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Alton Place Care Home Completes Mountbatten End of Life Programme
Hartford Care’s Alton Place care home on Winchester Road, Alton, has completed The Mountbatten End of Life Programme, an accredited education and training initiative designed…
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Do You Have a VE Commemoration Story to Share?
At THE CARER, we will be publishing a special VE Day commemorative feature celebrating the wonderful memories, stories and events taking place across the UK…
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Priory CEO Welcomes Care England Report Calling for Shift in How Adult Social Care is Understood and Funded
Priory chief executive Rebekah Cresswell has welcomed Care England’s new report, ‘The Power of Care: The system behind our society’, which calls for a fundamental…
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New “Care About Care” Campaign Launches to Put Care at the Heart of the National Conversation
A major new campaign launches today calling on Government to recognise that social care is an essential part of our economy as well as our…
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Bring Social Work Funding Support in Line with Nursing and Teaching, says LGA
More than half (52 per cent) of adult social workers experience increased severity and complexity of need in their caseloads, while capacity and resources do…
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Future Medics Take First Steps Towards Healthcare Career
Aspiring young healthcare professionals have celebrated completing six months of volunteering at St Wilfrid’s Hospice in Eastbourne. The hospice runs a Young Clinical Volunteer (YCV)…
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Unison Calls for Visa Reform and Social Care Investment
UNISON general secretary Andrea Egan hosted her first event in the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday 25 March alongside migrant worker members, calling for visa…
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