Healthcare property investment fund, MedicX Healthfund, is funding the construction of a £8.3m care home in Newbury, Berkshire.

Plans to cut 830 jobs, raise council tax and close libraries have been announced by Manchester City Council in a bid to address a funding gap of £80m.

Government plans for former offenders to mentor prisoners as part of its ‘rehabilitation revolution’ must be backed up with effective recruitment, investment and training, a leading academic has said.

Employers need to do more to protect social workers from emotional burnout, BASW warned in the wake of a report highlighting ‘life expectancy’ in the profession is just eight years.

Doctors are refusing to carry out tests for dementia as they believe it is pointless as there is no effective cure available, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.

Special measures are needed for more than 600,000 Greater Manchester residents – more than one in five – living in extreme poverty, says a new report.

Care services minister, Norman Lamb, appoints peer to carry out review of Liverpool Care Pathway after months of denunciations

THE manager of a residential nursing home in Tadworth has criticised the watchdog that issued a damning report into the provision of care at his facility.

New Wirral health and social care watchdog to be launched New Wirral health and social care watchdog to be launched

A HEALTHCARE watchdog has demanded immediate improvements at a nursing home after it emerged a patient went without prescribed medication for 12 days.