‘Complex Care Provider of the Year’ Cornerstone Healthcare has become one of a selected number of employers in the UK being accredited by the Living Wage Foundation after committing to the Real Living Wage.
Read more...Over two million people in England are thought to have had one or more COVID-19 symptoms lasting at least 12 weeks according to one of the largest studies of the virus funded by the government.
Read more...More than three in five adults in the UK have received a second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, securing the fullest possible protection, as the vaccination programme continues at unprecedented pace and scale.
Read more...Over 50,000 people have signed a petition against proposals by the government to make the Covid-19 vaccine mandatory for care home workers.
Read more...Millions of patients are set to benefit from a revolutionary use of technology and life-saving lessons learned during the global coronavirus pandemic, as a new draft data strategy will be published
Read more...The Court of Appeal has delivered a judgment against specialist healthcare business LIFE Services and The Learning Centre (Romford) that highlights the VAT challenges facing private healthcare
Read more...More than four in five adults in the UK have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, as the vaccination programme continues at unprecedented pace and scale.
Read more...The Department of Health and Social Care is set to give social care providers just 16 weeks to vaccinate all staff. If confirmed, all unvaccinated staff will have to be redeployed from frontline roles or face losing their job.
Read more...Over 70 million COVID-19 vaccines have now been administered to adults in the UK, the latest figures published today (Friday 11 June) show, as the vaccination programme continues at unprecedented pace and scale.
Read more...The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care provided evidence to the Joint Committees of Health and Social Care and Science and Technology.
Read more...Providers’ dismay at response to Covid-19
Care providers say it “beggars belief” how little knowledge of and power over the care sector Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock had during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read more...Responding to the Health and Social Care committee’s report “Workforce burnout and resilience in the NHS and social care”, Dr Katherine Henderson, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said:
Read more...More than half of health and social care workers have considered quitting
64% have gone to work sick because they couldn’t afford to take time off
Over 40 million people in the UK have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, the latest figures show today, as the UK’s vaccination programme continues at pace.
Read more...More than half of all adults in the UK have received a second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, the latest figures published today (Thursday 3 June) show, as the vaccination programme continues at unprecedented pace and scale.
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