NHS Leaders Warn Cancellations Due To Industrial Action Are ‘The Tip Of The Iceberg’
With junior doctors set to walkout for the fifth time this Friday and with the number of cancelled appointments and operations set to hit 1…
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Care Home Launches New Specialist Club To Support Residents With Dementia
Grantham care home is helping residents to ‘forget me not’ as it launches a new club to support people suffering with advanced stages of dementia….
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Friends Of The Elderly’s Care Receives £3,000 Donation
Charity Friends of the Elderly’s Kidderminster Day Care, which supports people who are living with dementia and a range of age related conditions, has received…
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Former Blue Peter Presenter Opens New Cinema Room At Foxearth Lodge
A new cinema room has been opened at Foxearth Lodge in Saxtead by former Blue Peter presenter Peter Purves. Mr Purves, who has a relative…
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Beachy Life For Care Home Residents
A group of 10 residents from Eston’s Astune Rise care home enjoyed a day at Saltburn-on-Sea, complete with beach huts, fish and chips, and a…
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Parklands Founder Thanks Staff, Community For Support Over Three Decades
The founder of Parklands Care Homes has paid tribute to his staff and the local community for its support over the past 30 years. Managing…
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Cuts To Covid Vaccine Programme Will Leave Patients And GPS In Despair, Says BMA
The BMA says a decision by NHS England to significantly reduce the fee that GPs are paid to deliver Covid vaccines undervalues general practice and…
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Health & Social Care Workers Worst Affected by Job Insecurity
Insecure employment is widespread in the UK labour market and costly to workers grappling with the cost-of-living crisis, according to new research by the Living…
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Community Integrated Care Completes Merger With Inspire
One of the UK’s biggest social care charities, Community Integrated Care, and specialist North-Scotland-based care provider, Inspire, have successfully completed their merger. Community Integrated Care…
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Government Underfunding Adult Social Care by £1.5 n Each Year
Care England has revealed, in a Channel 4 News exclusive, that the government is underfunding adult social care to the tune of £1.5 billion per…
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NHS Sets Out Plans For Winter To Speed Up Discharge And Improve Care
Care ‘traffic control’ centres to speed up discharge, additional ambulance hours and extra beds are part of wide-ranging plans to prepare for winter, the NHS…
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Care Workers Risk Being Forgotten Again Post Covid
Key workers in adult social care in Lincolnshire risk being forgotten as the world returns to normal following the Covid pandemic. That’s the view of…
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Review Published on Use of Physical Restraints in All Long-Term Care Settings
A new Cochrane review finds that the use of physical restraints on care home residents can be reduced without increasing the risk of falls, when…
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1,000 Breaks Gifted to Unpaid Carers
Today, The QHotels Collection have announced impressive milestone, having given over a thousand breaks to unpaid carers across their portfolio of resorts. These are unpaid…
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Order Of Malta Medals Awarded To Ten OSJCT Employees To Recognise Their Exceptional Dedication To The Care Sector
The Order of Malta has awarded Bronze Medals of Merit to ten OSJCT employees. These medals recognise their exemplary service to social care. Five attended…
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