Residents from three Dorset and Hampshire care homes enjoyed a postwar Britain-themed production performed by a theatre school in Bournemouth. Care home residents from Castle…
Read more...Slough supercentenarian Richard Brown celebrated his 107th birthday this month – but preferred a quiet cuppa to a party! Richard, who lives at Windmill Care…
Read more...The covid backlog fell for the fourth month in a row in January despite the longest period of industrial action in NHS history, new figures…
Read more...Leaders across the health and social care sector agree that a ‘full-scale’ cultural shift at a policy and organisational level is ‘urgently needed’ in order…
Read more...Steve Veevers, CEO of learning disability charity Hft, says: “I was pleased to see that the Government finally faced the United Nations (UN) yesterday, since…
Read more...The Care Workers’ Charity (CWC) responds to the Public Accounts Committee’s (PAC) report on the progress of adult social care reform, highlighting critical issues in…
Read more...Reducing social isolation among people over 65 was the focus of a presentation by social care charity Guild Care on Friday 15th March held at…
Read more...A fresh report on a lack of action over social care reform is the latest in a long line of damning evidence against a Government…
Read more...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…
Read more...People in adult social care and unpaid carers will benefit from a 20 million boost to fund innovative projects across the country, as the government…
Read more...The adult social care sector employs 1.52 million people in England, a workforce larger than that of the entire NHS so it is shocking that…
Read more...Adult social care support continues to stagnate following a lack of action to reform the sector by successive governments, says The King’s Fund following the…
Read more...A cross-party House of Lords scrutiny committee has raised concerns over restrictions to health and social care visas. The changes, which come into force on…
Read more...In a new report published today titled ‘A Hidden Crisis’ Age UK shines light on a scandal impacting some of our most vulnerable citizens: the effective…
Read more...“Keep yourself busy,” advises Glenys House, a 98-year-old care home resident to mark International Women’s Day. Glenys lives at RMBI Care Co. Home Albert Edward…
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