DHSC launch review into ‘duty of candour’ in health and social care
A review is to be launched into “variation” on how open and honest health and care providers are with patients when things go wrong. The Department of Health and Social
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Calls for law change after ‘malicious’ report left MP with social services record
A Labour MP left with a social services record after a “malicious” report by a man who disagreed with her political views has called for a law change. Stella Creasy’s
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James Cleverly insists new legally-binding treaty with Rwanda fixes all legal concerns
James Cleverly has insisted his new legally-binding treaty with Rwanda addresses all of the reasons that caused the Supreme Court to deem the Government’s flagship asylum policy unlawful. The Home
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Law change to make care home and hospital visits ‘fundamental standard of care’
Changes will be made to the law to protect visiting rights around care homes, hospitals and hospices, the Government has said. Visits will become a fundamental standard of care, on
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MPs defeat Government over moves to compensate infected blood scandal victims
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has suffered his first Commons defeat after Tory rebels backed speeding up efforts to compensate victims of the infected blood scandal. A total of 22 Conservative
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Lack of secure accommodation sees teenager living under four-to-one supervision in hospital
A 15-year-old girl with a history of self-harming so extreme she has to be watched by four people is living in hospital because of the national shortage of secure accommodation.
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Government announce £40 million social care funding to free up hospital beds this winter
Councils across England will receive a £40 million cash boost to provide social care and free up hospital beds this winter, the Government has announced. The fund will help 54
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Some 36% of dementia sufferers in England remain undiagnosed, report says
A call is being made for new, better and different ways to ensure that dementia cases do not go undiagnosed as a report says that 36% of sufferers in England
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Visa changes for care workers prompts major concern from sector organisations
“Swiftly improved” pay and conditions will be needed to drive domestic recruitment in social care, the Government has been warned, as changes to UK migration rules were judged by a
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Home Secretary announces ban on overseas care workers bringing family dependants
Home Secretary James Cleverly has outlined a raft of new restrictions on legal migration which he said will slash the number of people arriving in Britain by 300,000 a year.
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