Cautious Welcome for Double Visits
Today’s Government announcement increasing the number of visitors care and nursing home residents can have has met with a cautious welcome from providers. Provider body
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Two Visitors Allowed in Care Homes to Reunite Loved Ones
Care home residents in England will be able to receive two visitors indoors from Monday 12 April as covid restrictions continue to be cautiously eased.
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Third Of Unpaid Carers Would Use A Break From Caring To See The Doctor
Freedom of Information request reveals unpaid carers seeking replacement care for loved ones subjected to a postcode lottery Hundreds of thousands of carers going without
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Care Sourcer Launches Free Health and Wellbeing Support for Over 800,000 UK Care Workers
The Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) will be available to all employees of care providers who register for the support service Care Sourcer expects the programme
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Sunrise Senior Living UK and Gracewell HealthCare Celebrate their First Cohort of Graduates
Sunrise Senior Living UK and Gracewell Healthcare are currently offering Leadership Development Programme Pathways to their Senior Care Assistants (SCAs), Heads of Departments (HODs) and
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Women are Bearing the Brunt of the Government’s Inaction on Social Care
Today is International Woman’s Day and Age UK is warning that it is women who are generally paying the highest price for the Government’s continued
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Vulnerable People Dying Each Day Waiting for Social Care
Age UK research has revealed that 32,115 sick and vulnerable people died while awaiting social care in 2017/18, equating to approximately 90 each day.The research
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Give Older and Vulnerable Hope for 2019 – Plea
A provider has called on the Government to publish the Green Paper on social care and give 1.4m people currently going without care some hope
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Charity Volunteer Awarded British Empire Medal in New Year’s Honours
A great-grandfather who began volunteering at The Royal Star & Garter Homes 25 years ago has received the British Empire Medal (BEM) in the New
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A ‘No Deal’ Brexit Will Force the NHS and Social Care System into ‘Emergency Planning’ Mode
Responding to NHS guidance for England on what should be done to prepare for a no deal Brexit, Niall Dickson, co-chair of the Brexit Health
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Borough Care’s Sophie Is A Knockout
Sophie Rawlinson, Activity Lifestyle Facilitator at Borough Care’s Bruce Lodge home, has won her first charity boxing match in the first round. Sophie, who had
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Ray’s MBE Presentation to Mark NHS’s 70th Anniversary
RAY Allison MBE held a presentation on his award for services to the NHS at the Hartlepool care home where he lives. The health service’s
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Wellbeing Session Gets Care Home Residents Mobilised
PETERLEE care home residents have been put through their paces by a specialist exercise company for the elderly. Pulse Health, Fitness and Wellbeing held an
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Care Home Nurse Awarded Bravery Award
Carolyn Silcock, a Care Home Nurse, has been awarded a Bravery Award by Liverpool Ladders of Life ADHD Support Group. It was an ordinary day
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Chorley Care Residents Get Ringside View for Wrestling Wars
Thrill-seeking residents of a Chorley retirement home get to switch their usual Saturday night for an action-packed wrestling fund raiser, organised for their benefit. Two
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