Hospital patients who are medically fit to be sent home have been forced to wait at hospital for months on end while provisions are made to get them safely home
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The size of Scotland’s social work, social care and early years workforce dropped slightly last year to 208,360 people, a drop of 0.6% on 2020, a new report shows. The
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Covid-19 testing among NHS and care home staff with no symptoms in England is to be “paused” at the end of August, officials have announced. The Department of Health and
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New plans are being considered to recruit foreign workers for the UK’s care homes amid concerns about staff shortages this winter. A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said:
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A care worker who was dismissed because she refused to have a coronavirus vaccine can argue that her reasons were religious, an employment judge has ruled. Patrycja Wierowska worked as
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A grandfather fell, wounded his head and was taken to hospital while waiting for a social care assessment to enable him to go into a care home, his family said.
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A new project has brought a host of feathered friends to the windows of care home residents in Co Armagh. The Lough Neagh Partnership has teamed up with two care
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Prescribing potentially harmful antipsychotic drugs to people with dementia has increased by more than 50% on average in care homes during the pandemic, new research suggests. Academics at the University
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The police watchdog is investigating whether two Sussex Police officers used excessive force against a 93-year-old man. Sussex Police were called to a care home in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex,
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The human rights of people in care are at risk of being breached by slow progress on enabling visits and the inappropriate use of resuscitation notices, a report has warned.
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