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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More than £20,000 has been raised for a care home worker who was seriously assaulted after he is understood to have stepped in to protect his son in a park.
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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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Delayed discharges from Scottish hospitals dropped slightly in February, remaining below pre-pandemic levels, according to the latest figures. In February 2021, the average number of beds occupied per day due
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A 26-year-old mother is celebrating after winning £1 million on a scratchcard she purchased on her break while working at a care home. Sara Thomas, from Treharris in south Wales,
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England’s chief medical officer has said care home workers have a “professional responsibility” to get a Covid-19 vaccine after he was questioned about the lower uptake of jabs among staff
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Imagine that death is just around the corner. How will you spend your final moments? Quietly with loved ones? With a priest giving last rites? Perhaps listening to your favourite
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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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Police have arrested two members of staff at a South Devon care home in connection with a Covid-19 outbreak that is believed to have caused multiple deaths. Nine deaths have
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Nearly a quarter of staff at older adult care homes in England have not been given a first dose of coronavirus vaccine, new figures show. The latest data from NHS
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