New UCAS data published 21 September shows a 14% drop in acceptances onto nursing programmes in Scotland compared to last year. The number of acceptances…
Read more...The government has asked the NHSPRB to cap the next NHS pay rise at just 3.5% – significantly below inflation. In evidence submitted late to…
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Major new reform of the NHS will not work until Government addresses multiple chronic issues in the service, says PAC in a report released today….
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On Thursday 19 January, staff and residents from Windmill Manor Care Home in Oxted along with Councillor Brian Black came together to officially open the…
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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…
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CARE providers have welcomed news that social care nurses are to get a pay boost. The care provider organisation The Independent Care Group (ICG) said…
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Increased funding for nursing in care homes will support tens of thousands of care home residents with nursing needs, including those with learning and physical…
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One of the North East’s biggest social care providers, Community Integrated Care, has assisted 10 people with support needs to take part in a once…
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Barchester’s Upton Bay care home, in Poole, got into the Christmas spirit by joining a virtual afternoon of festivities along with the staff and residents…
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The NHS is setting up new Nightingale surge hubs at hospitals across the country as part of preparations for a potential wave of Omicron admissions….
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Care England has polled its members to ascertain the most pertinent workforce pressures facing the adult social care sector. Professor Martin Green OBE, Chief Executive…
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From Monday 17 May care home residents will be able to have more named visitors and more opportunities to make visits out with no need…
Read more...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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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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Nurses on integration authority (IA) boards in Scotland have access to a new set of tools with the publication of a competency framework. IA nurse…
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