A healthcare firm has pleaded guilty to corporate manslaughter after the death of a dementia patient who had been put into a bath of scalding water, a court heard. Frances
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Adult social care staff will see their pay rise to more than £10 per hour as part of a £300 million plan to help the health and care sector through
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A 59-year-old woman who has brain damage and was at the centre of litigation relating to care home visits during the coronavirus crisis is set to return home, a judge
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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has taken action against a Birmingham service for people living with a learning disability and autistic people – following an inspection which led to it
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A Cheltenham care provider has been ordered to pay £460,000 after it failed to protect residents from avoidable harm. Lifeways Community Care Limited, which operated Alstone House in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire,
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I was proud to recently release Skills for Care’s new three-year strategy, that will guide how we support the social care workforce in meeting the needs of our communities now
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A Scottish care home operator will invest up to £10m with the launch of a new 60-bed facility – a move that will be its biggest project to date. Mansfield
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Scotland’s rollout of Covid booster vaccinations for elderly care home residents is to get under way, while children aged 12 to 15 will be offered their first coronavirus jab. The
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Doctors are to use a remotely operated robot to give check ups to care home residents with Alzheimer’s disease and other conditions. The pilot will use technology pioneered by The
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A court has temporarily suspended a care home’s registration after a watchdog raised “serious concerns” about the quality of care. The interim suspension of the care provider’s registration at Singleton
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