Serious shortages remain in health and social care nursing despite strong mid-year growth, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has said. Latest mid-year figures published by…
Read more...When adult nursing graduate, Lisa Wynne, undertook an eight-week work placement at Belong Wigan, she was left inspired by the organisation’s person-centred approach to care, and…
Read more...With Boris Johnson’s Conservative Government leading the polls with a comfortable majority, ending the uncertainty on Brexit that has dominated the news for many months,…
Read more...Campaigners fighting for a better deal for social care at the General Election have released an animation based on a Christmas Carol. The short video,…
Read more...Responding to a report by Age UK on delayed transfers of care attributable to social care and the need to put adult social care on…
Read more...South coast care home operator Colten Care has seen its latest cohort of care staff pass an in-house training course to take up new clinical…
Read more...Care England has criticised a GPs vote to remove home visits from their core work. The recent proposal from the Kent GP Local Medical Committee…
Read more...New analysis reveals that up to 90,000 home care workers for the over 65s are needed immediately if the main parties’ manifesto pledges to expand…
Read more...The Conservatives have pledged to inject an extra £1 billion per year in social care over the next five years to “stabilise” the system and…
Read more...Responding to the Conservative Party’s manifesto for the 2019 General Election, Sean Duggan, chief executive of the Mental Health Network, which is part of the…
Read more...Responding to the Conservative Party’s manifesto for the 2019 General Election, Niall Dickson, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, which represents organisations across the healthcare…
Read more...In a commitment to alleviate the chronic health and social care crisis the Liberal Democrats have promised to inject £35 billion into the NHS and…
Read more...Call for firm election pledges over social care Life-size cardboard cut-outs of the three main party leaders took to the stage today when the politicians…
Read more...St Cuthbert’s Hospice, Durham, has been honoured with a national award at the prestigious Dementia Care Awards at a high-profile Gala Night held earlier this…
Read more...Barchester Healthcare has purchased 24 brighterkind care homes from Terra Firma, for an undisclosed sum. Barchester has more than 12,000 beds and looks after 11,000…
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