New Campaign Supports Care Sector To Cut Energy Bills
As the cost-of-living crisis hits Britain, a unique campaign has launched to support people who access and deliver social care to cut their energy bills….
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Healthcare Vacancies Show Signs of Stabilising While Applications Rise
Following a peak in hiring towards the end of last year, healthcare job vacancies have dropped, though application numbers are showing some signs of positivity….
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Steve Barclay Appointed New Heath Secretary
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has appointed Steve Barclay, former chief of staff at Number 10, as his new health secretary. The appointment follows the resignation…
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Celebrities Stand in Solidarity with Care Workers to Celebrate #GladtoCare Awareness Week 2022
Celebrities, YouTube stars and renowned wellbeing hosts have shown their solidarity with care workers to celebrate a national annual awareness week dedicated to the social…
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Minister for Care to Give Evidence to Lords Adult Social Care Committee
The House of Lords Adult Social Care Committee will question the Rt Hon Gillian Keegan MP, Minister for Care and Mental Health, as it continues…
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NHS Leaders Call for National Minimum Wage for Social Care to Avoid Staff Exodus
NHS leaders are calling on the Government to immediately implement a national care worker minimum wage of £10.50 an hour. They are warning that without…
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Plan for Digital Health and Social Care Will Help Alleviate Staffing Pressures Across the NHS
The Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) has welcomed the plan for digital health and social care announced today by the Department for Health and…
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Carers Welcome Investment in Digital Care…
…But Warn Other Reforms Mustn’t be Delayed CARE providers have welcomed Government investment in new technology but warned that major reform of the sector must…
Read more...Integrated Care Systems Launching a New Era for Health and Social Care
From 1st July 2022, Integrated Care Systems (ICS) will change the way health and care services are planned, paid for and delivered across England. From…
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Concerns Raised Over Social Care Reform Funding
Concerns have grown among councils in recent months that the Government’s adult social care charging reforms are potentially hugely underfunded, which will risk their implementation…
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Experts by Experience to Give Evidence to Lords Adult Social Care Committee
The House of Lords Adult Social Care Committee will hold evidence sessions with individuals who draw on social care and unpaid carers to test its…
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Report Finds Evidence of Inequality in Treatment of Ethnic Minority ‘Covid heroes’ Working in Health and Social Care
Lower-paid health and social care workers, who played a pivotal front-line role during the COVID-19 pandemic, experienced bullying, racism and harassment at work according to…
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Window of Opportunity for Health and Social Care Collaboration
Care England, has today welcomed the constructive independent review by General Messenger and Dame Pollard on health and social care leadership. Professor Martin Green OBE,…
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Stop Social Care From Being the Bottleneck
AMBULANCES and their patients are queuing outside hospitals because there is no social care to allow beds to be freed up, it was said today….
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EHRC Backs Calls for Care Worker Registration in England
The Care Worker’s Charity have responded regarding the recent report into the treatment of lower-paid ethnic minority workers in health and social care by the…
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