Dementia Remains UK’s Leading Cause of Death as Crisis Deepens
Dementia has retained its position as the UK’s biggest killer for another year, claiming 76,894 lives in 2024 according to new analysis from Alzheimer’s Research…
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Nursing Homes
Council Announces Ambitious Plans To Increase Local Care Provision
Hillingdon Council has announced proposals for an innovative major development project to provide additional dementia nursing care in the borough. The council is proposing to…
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Care Staff Falling Ill as Understaffing Takes Its Toll
Hospitals and care homes in the UK are so short-staffed that nursing staff are continuing to work while unwell, with stress the leading cause of…
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Remembrance Day – We Want to Hear Your Stories
At The Carer, we consider it a great privilege to publish and share the meaningful ways care homes across the UK commemorate Remembrance Day. As…
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Team of Volunteers Arrange Coffee Morning at Croydon Home and Raise More than £450
A group of volunteers who spend their time at a Croydon home arranged a coffee morning to raise funds and managed to accumulate more than…
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Southbourne Beach Care Home Participates in YMCA Bournemouth’s BIG Sleep Easy 2025
Southbourne Beach Care Home joined around 30 local businesses in supporting YMCA Bournemouth’s BIG Sleep Easy 2025, an impactful initiative aimed at raising awareness and…
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Care Home Residents “Penalised” As Funding Slashed By £5,000
Health bosses in North Wales have been blasted for a “travesty” that cuts funding by more than £5,000 a year for care home residents receiving…
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Scottish Government “Steps in” to Sponsor Visas for Foreign Care Workers
Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney announced that the Scottish Government will directly sponsor visas for overseas care workers in a bold move to counter Westminster’s…
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NACC Celebrate 2025 Award Winners
The National Association of Care Catering (NACC) gathered in Nottingham (1st – 2nd October 2025) to celebrate the great and the good of care catering…
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Ilona Tomza Crowned as the 2025 NACC Care Chef of the Year
Ilona Tomza of Porthaven Care Homes of has been crowned National Association of Care Catering (NACC) Care Chef of the Year 2025. Ilona was crowned…
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Plan to Deport Legal Migrants “Potentially Catastrophic” Warns Social Care Champion
A social care champion says Reform UK’s “potentially catastrophic” plan to threaten legal immigrants with deportation would put vulnerable people at risk in Wales. Mario…
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Melbourn Springs Donates £900 to The Parish Church of All Saints for Refurbishment Works
Melbourn Springs Care Home has proudly donated £900 to The Parish Church of All Saints, Melbourn, supporting essential refurbishment works that will help preserve the…
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Number of Full-Time Unpaid Carers Soars by 70 Per Cent- Now at “Breaking Point”
England’s social care system is at breaking point, with rising demand, shrinking supply, and growing reliance on unpaid carers, according to a new paper for…
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Ground-Breaking Pilot Brings Medical Students Into Nursing Homes In Hampshire
Third-year medical students are undertaking placements in local social care settings in a new pilot programme developed by the University of Southampton and the Hampshire…
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UK Think-Tank Calls for “Radical and Urgent Reform” of Britain’s “Broken” Social Care System
The Social Care Foundation (SCF), a UK-wide think tank, today publishes a wide-ranging report on the state and future of social care in Britain. Damian…
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