Care Quality Commission staff to be balloted on industrial action over pay
Staff at the Care Quality Commission are to be balloted for possible strikes in a dispute over pay. Members of Unison will vote in the new year after the union
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Care home residents neglected and dying alone amid dangerously low staffing levels, union warns
Care home residents are dying alone and their everyday needs are c” because staffing levels are at such a “dangerously low” level, research suggests. People in residential care are being
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Midwives gather across the UK to protest over ‘national emergency’ in maternity care
Maternity services are at “breaking point” and the “crisis” in maternity care should be addressed as a “national emergency”, midwives have said. The warning came as supporters of a March
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Care home workforce in England falls 3,700 in week vaccination became mandatory – data suggests
More than 3,700 care home staff in England left their jobs over the week that the mandatory vaccination rule came into force, figures suggest. The number of staff in care
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Minister warns NHS faces winter capacity crisis because of care home staffing shortage, not Covid
The NHS faces a bed-blocking and capacity crisis this winter because of a staff shortage in care homes, ministers have been warned. The Government was told by Conservative MP Mark
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Government urged to follow other sectors and offer cash bonuses to retain social care staff
Social care staff should be given a bonus to stop them leaving for other jobs, health leaders have said, as they warned the NHS faces the “most difficult winter in
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Latest data reveals half a million social care staff in England ‘not recorded as double jabbed’
More than half a million social care staff in England have not been recorded as having received two coronavirus vaccine doses, figures show. Some 542,196 workers in care homes, domiciliary
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Being vaccinated is ‘part of the job’ for workforce, says care home boss
A care home boss has backed the new mandatory vaccine rules despite them causing her to lose three staff. Lucy Craig (pictured), who operates three residential and dementia care homes
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‘Shambolic’ vaccine rule sees care homes becoming embroiled in disciplinary proceedings, say owners
Care homes are embroiled in disciplinary proceedings over the Government’s “shambolic” mandatory vaccination policy for staff, further adding to the workforce pressures they face, a care group has said. The
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Tens of thousands of care home staff unable to legally work as mandatory jab policy kicks in
Tens of thousands of care home staff who have not had both coronavirus vaccine doses will be unable to legally work in care homes from Thursday as the Government’s mandatory
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