The Future Of The Care Workforce: Care UK Reinvents Work Experience Offer
Care UK is reaffirming its commitment to the future of the care workforce this year, by welcoming an improved work experience opportunity, which is being…
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Social Care
End the “Persecution” of Unpaid Carers Says DR UK
The Government is facing calls to abandon cruel and nonsensical fines levied on tens of thousands of unpaid carers for unwittingly breaching earnings rules by…
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The Alzheimer’s & Dementia Show 2024
The UK’s largest and only event covering all aspects of the fight against Alzheimer’s & dementia from drug discovery to treatment to care. Whether you’re…
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Work Starts on Complex Needs Care Home in Pontefract
Exemplar Health Care has started work on transforming a former care home on Westfield Lane, Pontefract, into a brand-new complex care service. The site is…
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Online Meetings During Covid Lead To A New Career For Bonnie
A professional relationship which started online during Covid via NHS-run adult social care Teams calls, resulted in dementia specialist Bonnie Frear being offered an interesting…
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Why Is No One Talking About The Great Career Opportunities In The Care Sector?
By Mitesh Dhanak, Chair of the Organising Committee of Championing Social Care and Founder of Precious Homes (www.precious-homes.co.uk) News about understaffing in the care sector…
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Adult Social Care – Navigating the Current Challenges
By Kiri Holland, BDO LLP (www.bdo.co.uk/en-gb/industries/health-and-social-care) It is now well over two years since the COVID-19 pandemic began to dominate the health and care landscape….
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Why Online Reviews Are Becoming So Important For Care Homes
By Suman Saha, Co-founder and Medical Director at Doctify (https://www.doctify.com/uk) Word of mouth in social care is now taking place online. As a digital-first society,…
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Fixing the Recruitment Crisis in Social Care
By Lyndsay Chapman, Head of People at Talos360 (https://talos360.co.uk) With around 105,000 unfilled vacancies in adult social care, the UK Government has drafted in help…
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Make Your Patient Data Cyber-Secure by Design
Antonio Weiss, Senior Partner at The PSC (www.thepsc.co.uk/team/team-member/antonio-weiss/) and author of The Practical Guide to Digital Transformation on how to keep your patient data secure…
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Managing Distrust Social Care – How Can We Shift The Dial?
By Laura Salvage, Senior Account Manager at The PHA Group (https://thephagroup.com/) Last month, Orpea, Europe’s second-largest nursing home, received widespread accusations of misconduct and mistreatment…
Read more...Social Care Staff Remain The Poor Relation Says Providers
Social Care staff remain the poor relations of the healthcare family after their colleagues got a pay boost, campaigners said today. The social care provider…
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Recipients Of Care ‘Responsible’ For Saying ‘This Is What I Want’, Says Industry Expert
A leading voice in social care has said there needs to be a rebalance between providers of care and those receiving it and said people…
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Public Satisfaction With The NHS & Social Care Slumps To New Record Low
Public satisfaction with the NHS and social care has fallen to the lowest level ever recorded, according to analysis of the latest British Social Attitudes…
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Council Leader Urged to Resign After “Muting Critic” in Care Home Fees Row
A council leader has been urged to resign after being accused of acting like a “tinpot dictator” in silencing a member who objected to setting…
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