Health and Social Services Minister Edwin Poots has launched minimum care standards for independent healthcare establishments in Northern Ireland. The standards set out the minimum requirements that independent healthcare facilities
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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has drafted guidance on how the 46,000 health and adult social care providers and services that it regulates across England can meet the government’s new
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Six per cent of people in need of adult social care feel socially isolated and have little contact with friends, family or neighbours, according a survey from the Health and
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A care home which was severely criticised by inspectors for neglect, unsafe practices and poor conditions has closed. Concerns were raised during an inspection by the Care Social Services Inspectorate
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Organisations and members of the public across Scotland are being offered the opportunity to give their views on the standards of care that people receive. Scots are being asked to
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The Public Consultation on the Review of the Code of Practice for Social Care Workers will launch today, coinciding with the start of the National Social Services Conference. The consultation
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Bedford care professionals focused on keeping a man with mental health problems in his own home at a cost to his health and welfare, an investigation has found. The joint
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Levels of care being given to dementia sufferers in specialist NHS units have been criticised in a new report by the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland. The report found that
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A public consultation on the standards to be expected of social care workers in Wales is to be launched by the Care Council later this month. The consultation will focus
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Complaints to the local government ombudsman about adult social care in England have more than doubled over the last four years, it has been revealed. Local government ombudsman Jane Martin
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