Fiona McQueen, Chief Nursing Officer, Scottish Government and Karen Reid, Chief Executive, Care Inspectorate have written to all service providers to raise awareness of the forthcoming changes to the re-registration
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Families are paying too much for social care “all too often” because they are not getting the correct information, according to a report. The Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) says many
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Dementia care specialist Kingsley Healthcare has announced plans for a £6m development that will create up to 100 jobs in Greater Manchester. Building work on the 62-bedroom purpose-built dementia care home
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The Department of Health has announced it is to review the rate paid by the NHS to private care homes for nursing services. Registered nursing care for residents, who are
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A new care monitoring service which uses sound and motion sensitive camera equipment to trigger alerts of any unusual activity has been launched to protect vulnerable people, such as the
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An elderly man and a middle-aged woman have died after they were stabbed at a sheltered housing complex. A man in his mid-80s and a woman in her mid-50s were
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The Welsh Government is asking people who believe their care should have been funded by the NHS to register their intent to make a claim. Continuing healthcare is a package
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A Vale of Glamorgan care home worker has been struck from the Register of Social Care Workers. A Fitness to Practise Panel of the Care Council for Wales found the
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The introduction of a national living wage will leave the care sector “at serious risk of catastrophic collapse”, the head of the body representing the industry has warned. Five of
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Two care home owners and a care assistant have been convicted of ill-treating a 99-year-old dementia sufferer who was immersed in a scalding hot bath. A jury at Preston Crown
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