The pandemic has highlighted just how vital care workers are to society. But the people who work in this sector have been neglected for too long. It is time politicians
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Thousands of frontline health workers and their families will be granted visa extensions, the Home Office has announced. One-year visa extensions will be automatically granted free of charge to eligible
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Scotland’s outgoing Health Secretary has admitted moving patients back from hospitals into care homes during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic was a “mistake”. Jeane Freeman (pictured) said the
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Newcross Healthcare has launched Newcross World, a new app-based training platform with simulated working environments on the healthcare provider’s established HealthForceGo app, currently used by 8,500 staff. The new app
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The SNP and Scottish Labour have set out their policies to improve care for the elderly, ahead of the Scottish Parliament election. Nicola Sturgeon’s party has pledged to abolish charges
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A route map towards implementing the recommendations from the Independent Care Review has been published outlining priorities for the next three years. Thousands of people who were in care shared
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The family of a man who choked to death after a support worker took him to a pub for a burger says he was failed by a care company, after
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Two agency nurses whose “gross failures” contributed to the death of a disabled woman were allowed to keep working at a care home because they “knew residents well”, a coroner
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Adult social care is being hampered by the Government’s failure to detail a long-term plan for care, the Whitehall spending watchdog has warned. The National Audit Office (NAO) said the
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A woman in her late teens who has a learning difficulty and a history of being sexually abused by men is under close supervision at a specialist unit for her
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