– Inaugural Healthcare Heroes Awards recognise social care sector heroes throughout COVID-19 pandemic –
Global property adviser Knight Frank has launched the inauguration of Knight Frank’s Healthcare Heroes Awards
Read more...Brunelcare, a Bristol based charity with nearly 80-years experience in caring for older people, has launched a new campaign to celebrate the amazing work of its employees and inspire others to join the team.
Read more...Care providers are gearing up for further staff shortages in advance of new rules that will prevent the movement of staff between care settings introduced through the Regulation 18 clause
Read more...Government requests medicines regulator evaluate whether supply of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine can be authorised
Vaccine must first meet the UK’s high standards of safety, efficacy and quality
Move would mean potentially faster access to the vaccine for UK patients, if approved
Responding to the Chancellor’s Comprehensive Spending Review Dr Chaand Nagpaul, BMA council chair, said:
Read more...During the COVID-19 pandemic, social care provider Optalis has adapted its Day Services to ensure continued support to the local community across Wokingham, Windsor and Maidenhead.
Read more...A Resident at HC-One’s Larchwood care home, in Essex, turned 100 last week and to mark the special occasion, Colleagues went that extra step further for Winifred Woodham.
Read more...The Relatives & Residents Association (R&RA) has accused the government of giving with one hand and taking with the other with its policy of banning care home residents
Read more...Resident Elsie Lemming from at HC One’s Willow Brook care home is celebrating her 102nd birthday.
Elsie had some fabulous balloons and received plenty of cards and gifts from her loved ones.
Read more...Colleagues and Residents at HC One’s White Gables care home enjoy some time at ‘Foggy’s Bar’.
Rachael Fogg, the unit manager at the Lincoln care home, had an idea to make one of the small lounges at the home into a bar.
Read more...HC-One’s Roseland Court Care Home in Truro, Gittisham Hill House Care Home in Honiton and Bereweeke Court Care Home in Winchester are taking part in the Department of Health
Read more...Vic Rayner, Executive Director of the National Care Forum responds to the Chancellor’s spending review.
“The Spending Review is a catastrophe for social care. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the government has consistently talked
Read more...A new report by the National Audit Office (NAO) has revealed that adult social care providers were not adequately supported by government in obtaining PPE and came very close to running out during the pandemic.
Read more...New data released today shows that care homes who pioneered an innovative telemedicine approach to assessing residents following a fall, have seen a significant reduction
Read more...Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s spending review has been described as a ‘catastrophe’ for the social care sector.
Addressing the House of Commons, the Chancellor said that local authorities access to an extra £1 million next year, however councils would be unlikely
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