Rural care for elderly in crisis due to spending cuts and fuel prices
Elderly people in rural areas are at risk because the care system to look after them in their own homes is “at breaking point”.
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Care worker struck off following incident at secure unit
A CARE worker has been struck off after she hauled a vulnerable 16-year-old through a secure unit and locked her in a room.
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Pay cuts loom for Enable Cumbernauld staff
CARE workers in Cumbernauld face a 15 per cent pay cut – and the blame is aimed at North Lanarkshire Council.
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Seven flu deaths now confirmed at Dundee nursing home
THE DEATH toll from an outbreak of flu at a Dundee nursing home has risen to seven, NHS Tayside has revealed.
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Inspectors reveal improvements in dealing with social care fears
THERE has been an improvement in the way Carmarthenshire Council deals with the resolution of social care complaints, according to inspectors.
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Sarah Rochira named as new Older People’s Commissioner for Wales
THE director of the Royal National Institute for the Blind Cymru has been named the new Older People’s Commissioner for Wales.
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Reading children’s services just ‘adequate’
Services to protect and care for children in Reading are only reaching minimum standards, according to Government inspectors.
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Cambridgeshire council acts to move residents from care home
Elderly residents at Littleport Grange nursing and residential home, in Littleport, are to be moved out after the home failed to improve after receiving a formal warning from health and social care watchdog the Care Quality Commission.
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Virgin Care signs Surrey community health services contract
Virgin care has signed a £500 million contract with NHS Surrey to deliver community health services in south west and north west Surrey, which includes Walton and Weybridge, from 2012 to 2017.
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James Paget Hospital starts work on palliative care centre
Work on a new centre for terminally-ill people has begun at a hospital which serves Norfolk and north Suffolk.
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