OU Calls For Action To Address Skills Shortages In Adult Social Care In England
The Open University is today calling for significant reform in adult social work and social care to aid the sectors’ recovery from COVID-19.
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Social Care
Social Care Sector To Receive £269 Million To Boost Staffing Levels And Testing
The impact of the new variant is being felt across the country, with staff absence rates rising sharply both in care homes and among home care staff
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UK Government To Set Out Covid-19 UK Vaccines Delivery Plan
The UK Government will today (Monday 11 January 2021) be publishing its Covid-19 UK Vaccines Delivery Plan, which the Health and Social Care Secretary, Matt Hancock
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Early Warning – Staffing Under Pressure In Social Care
The National Care Forum (NCF) – the leading not-for-profit association for social care providers – have been working with their membership over recent days as it becomes
Read more...Integrating Health With Social Care
Care England has submitted its response to the NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSEI) consultation on integrated care systems.
Professor Martin Green OBE, Chief Executive of Care England, says:
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Salutem Care and Education CEO Praises Dedication of Staff After Being Awarded an MBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours
Salutem Care and Education is delighted to announce that its Chief Executive John Godden has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours…
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NHS Confederation Welcomes ‘Certainty and Security’ of Brexit Trade Deal but Warns of Disruption Risk
Responding to the announcement of the Brexit trade agreement, Danny Mortimer, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said: “On behalf of our members, who have…
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Helen Leads the Way as Community Staff are Vaccinated
Community Respiratory Practitioner Helen Gremo was first to be vaccinated today (Monday, 28 December) as hundreds of frontline community NHS staff in Kent join colleagues…
Read more...New Statistical Reports Relating To Adult Social Care Published Today
The latest statistics on adult social care — covering outcomes, activity, finance and the opinions of those receiving care — have been published by NHS Digital today.
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Pandemic Drives Understanding Of Social Care & Spurs People To Reconsider Jobs
While the pandemic has posed many challenges to the care home sector, it has driven public awareness of the work undertaken by those working in social care.
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RLWC2021 & Community Integrated Care Launch Ground-Breaking Inclusive Volunteer Programme
Rugby League World Cup 2021 (RLWC2021) today (4 December, 2020) furthers its commitment to building a world-class social impact programme by teaming up with Community…
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Increased Pressures May Have Led to Inappropriate DNACPR Care Decisions
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) today publishes an interim report from its review into the application of do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DNACPR) decisions during…
Read more...Is This What The People Really Want – Underfunding Of Social Care?
Vic Rayner, Executive Director of the National Care Forum responds to the Chancellor’s spending review.
“The Spending Review is a catastrophe for social care. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the government has consistently talked
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NAO Highlights PPE “Inadequacies” In Social Care Support During Pandemic
A new report by the National Audit Office (NAO) has revealed that adult social care providers were not adequately supported by government in obtaining PPE and came very close to running out during the pandemic.
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Spending Review “Catastrophic” For Social Care Say Industry Leaders
Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s spending review has been described as a ‘catastrophe’ for the social care sector.
Addressing the House of Commons, the Chancellor said that local authorities access to an extra £1 million next year, however councils would be unlikely
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