The Department of Health and Social Care is considering a pensions-style opt-out system to tackle Britain’s mounting social care funding crisis, health secretary Matt Hancock has revealed. The Local Government Association warned earlier this year that adult social care services ...

CHAMPAGNE corks were flying at a Chester-le-Street care home in celebration of a resident’s golden wedding anniversary. Pelton Grange Care Home resident Dennis Fullerton and his wife Margaret were surprised by staff when they returned from an anniversary lunch to ...

THE SPADEWORK has started on a multi-million pound plan to transform social care for people living with dementia in Liverpool. Earthmovers are in at two sites in the city as part of a £30 million plan to create new living ...

National care provider, Barchester Healthcare, marked the start of their newest care home builds at three new sites around the country. Adding to their portfolio of over 200 care homes and 6 independent hospitals, the company recently broke ground for the first ...

This year’s British Food Fortnight shines a light on the NHS and the hospitals who continue to buy and serve British, local and seasonal food.According to the Hospital Caterers Association in excess of £200m is spent annually on food for ...

YOUNG people have been welcomed by a Tyneside care home – to help them build social skills and become top citizens. Residents at Waverley Lodge Care Home, in Lemington, made unlikely friends with the teenage volunteers, aged 15 to 17, ...

Confusion over the future of EU workers in Britain threatens to deepen the crisis in the social care workforce, a care providers’ group warned today. The Independent Care Group (ICG) fears that free movement from EU countries will end after ...

New research published 17th September 2018, by Pain Concern offers the prospect of better care for people living with long-term pain. Persistent pain affects 1-in-5 (800,000) people – many of them severely. Pain killers which are commonly used to treat ...

COLOUR canons fired by Hill Care Group staff kicked off the third and final Teesside Hospice Colour Run for 2018. The care home group, which operates several homes across Teesside, was one of the sponsors of this year’s event and ...

Care England, the largest representative body for independent providers of adult social care, has expressed concern that once again the social care sector has been left out of new funding for NHS for winter. Professor Martin Green OBE, Chief Executive ...