The pharmaceutical company, Biogen, announced this week that it will stop developing and marketing the Alzheimer’s drug aducanumab (commercially known as Aduhelm). Aducanumab is designed…
Read more...A report commissioned by The Times revealed the considerable pressures that the health and social care sector is facing. The Times launched the Health Commission…
Read more...Care England has launched an end-to-end solution to help care providers and Local Authorities solve the adult social care workforce recruitment and retention conundrum. Professor…
Read more...New research, published today in Nature Medicine, has identified five cases of Alzheimer’s disease believed to have arisen because of a medical treatment decades earlier….
Read more...Patients in England will be able to get treatment for seven common conditions at their high street pharmacy from today without needing to see a…
Read more...Group Hospitality Manager of Meallmore Ltd, Jody Marshall, has been elected as the Chair of the National Association of Care Catering (NACC) Scotland Region. Joining…
Read more...The majority (97%) of employers across the social care sector experienced skills shortages last year, according to new research released by leading specialist in workforce…
Read more...Measures to transform the UK’s legal migration system, bolster border security and drive down unsustainable and unfair levels of migration will come into force within…
Read more...A Thame organisation has been named the winner of a care home’s ‘Local Heroes’ competition. Thame Good Neighbour Scheme, which offers services to those in…
Read more...Former Scottish health secretary Jeane Freeman has told the UK COVID-19 Inquiry she will ‘regret for the rest of her life’ care home deaths caused…
Read more...Experiencing racism increases a person’s chances of having poor mental health but also makes it harder for them to get the right support, according to…
Read more...Cornerstone Healthcare Group, provider of specialist and complex care in the UK, has announced the appointment of Paul Hayes as the company’s new Chief Executive…
Read more...A new report ‘We have to take it one day at a time’, launched by Age UK as part of their new campaign ‘Spread the Warmth’, shows the…
Read more...In September, Cheryl Hossle’s parents moved into St Faith’s Nursing Home in Cheltenham which is part of the charity Lilian Faithfull Care. After 62 years…
Read more...By Anna Fee, Senior Associate Solicitor, RWK Goodman (https://rwkgoodman.com/sector/health-social-care) There is often a media frenzy around stories relating to abuse in the care sector and…
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