Engage: Social care workers must be rewarded
Cornerstone is one of the largest care providers in Scotland, providing services to children and adults in 20 of the country’s 32 local authority areas. With a turnover of almost
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Engage: Social care evidence base
Social care may be the poor relation of healthcare with regard to research funding, but it’s something of a myth that it is not evidence-based, says Research in Practice Director
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Engage: NHS needs agency staff, but it must manage them better
The use of temporary agency staff in the NHS is not a new story, but recently re-appeared after Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, admitted that hospitals were over
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Engage: Old problems and new – a view from the foodbank frontline
We know that up to two-thirds of the people turning to the foodbank for help are having problems with the benefits system. That’s why since August 2013, a Child Poverty
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Engage: Giving people control of their own health and social care budgets
As leaders from the nine Integrated Personal Commissioning demonstrator sites meet to share early learning, Dr Linda Collie, Clinical Executive at NHS Portsmouth CCG, explains how working together with Portsmouth
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Engage: Relationships matter – The importance of consistent relationships for care leavers
When young people leave care, the transition can be fraught with difficulties which can continue well into adulthood, and even for life. The continuity of consistent relationships throughout a young
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Woman claims music therapy has cured her arthritis and ‘reversed’ cancer
A woman claims her arthritis and skin condition have been cured and her cancer reversed after she listened to “musical medicine”. Katy Meiklem, from Fife, suffered progressive ill health for
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Developing evidence-enriched practice in health and social care with older people
An innovative project looking at how evidence can be used to enrich practice, based on research from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) A Better Life programme, has released its findings.
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Engage: What impact does the rising employment rate have on poverty?
Labour Market Statistics released yesterday show employment is at its highest since records began, and unemployment is decreasing rapidly, says Catherine Davie. But what impact does this have on poverty?
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Engage: Women MPs and women’s issues ‘invisible’ in the election campaign
?At the height of the election campaign, Prime Minister’s wife Samantha Cameron earned more coverage than women who were actually standing for Parliament. And female politicians are and have been
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