Some care home residents “gave up and died” because they were unable to see loved ones during the pandemic, the outgoing chief executive of one of the UK’s biggest care
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Apologising to care home staff following the Government’s U-turn on mandatory vaccination “doesn’t feel like the right thing to do”, the care minister has said. Gillian Keegan (pictured) said the
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Union leaders have expressed hopes that the governor of the Bank of England will visit care homes and speak to workers about pay following his appearance before a committee of
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Ministers have been urged to be “straight” with bereaved families over when the Covid-19 public inquiry will begin. Retired Court of Appeal judge and crossbench life peer Baroness Heather Hallett
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All coronavirus laws in England including the legal requirement for people who test positive to isolate will end on Thursday before free universal testing is scrapped in April. Boris Johnson
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A care home group is offering to give new carers £1,000 towards their household bills in a bid to fill vacancies and ease their cost of living worries. Saint Cecilia’s
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Around one in 25 people in the UK working in social care, teaching and education were likely to have been self-isolating because of Covid-19 at the end of last month,
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Dame Jenni Murray has voiced her support for a referendum on legalising assisted dying. The former Woman’s Hour presenter recalled seeing her parents die some 16 years ago and said
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More than 50,000 social care workers in Wales are to get a £1,000 bonus in their pay packets this year, it has been announced. The one-off payment, due in staff
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A care sector boss has said the Government must apologise to care home workers who lost their jobs, following its announcement that it plans to scrap the mandatory vaccine requirement
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