Interim director of community care appointed in Shetland
The Shetland Islands Council has appointed Sally Shaw, executive manager of adult services, as interim director of community care.
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The Shetland Islands Council has appointed Sally Shaw, executive manager of adult services, as interim director of community care.
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Up to a fifth of nursing and residential homes in England are failing to give patients their medicines or meet basic professional standards with potentially fatal consequences, the regulator has discovered.
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Adults with autism should be supported to find and hold down a job, which would have innumerable benefits for their care
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THE number of homeless people in Scotland has fallen by around a fifth in the past year, according to government figures.
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Sentencing of an Edinburgh man who raped and killed a pensioner has been delayed after a judge criticised a social work report.
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Care Quality Commission finds problems with mismanagement of medicines, poor record-keeping and low staff numbers
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Welsh councils are owed huge sums in unpaid fees for adult social care, a BBC Wales investigation has discovered.
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People who suffer with a serious mental illness have a mortality rate three times as high as those in the general population, according to new research.
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STRUCTURE: Social workers could join GP surgeries under plans being developed by Surrey County Council.
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Carers who give up work to look after others cost England’s economy about £5.3bn a year, the charity Age UK says.
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