New research from King’s College London found that people living with dementia experience higher levels of unplanned hospitals admissions towards the end of life after…
Read more...Today is Nurses’ Day, an annual celebration of the nursing profession, held on 12 May, Florence Nightingale’s birthday. This year, The Royal; College of Nusring…
Read more...Government policies on discharging patients from hospital to care homes at the outset of the pandemic were “unlawful” because they failed to consider the risk…
Read more...The Government has been urged to revamp its ‘living with Covid’ plan as NHS leaders warn the government risks abandoning the health service in the…
Read more...Members of the House of Lords have successfully passed a number of amendments to the Health and Care Bill. Amendment 80, tabled by Baroness Cumberlege…
Read more...On the first day of the Hospital Caterers Association (HCA) Learning and Development forum Jonathan Ashworth MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary announced their pledge to…
Read more...Nearly three quarters of UK adults (73 per cent) say hospice services should be used more to help relieve the pressure on hospitals according to…
Read more...Since 2011, almost four million (3,954,833) hospital bed days have been lost to the NHS due to problems securing social care. In 2016/17 alone, nearly…
Read more...With hospitals full to capacity, NHS plans in some areas to cut hospital beds are undesirable and unachievable, warns The King’s Fund in a new…
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