DH expand integrated health & social care programme
The Department of Health has announced the expansion their Integrated Care Pioneers Programme which aims to promote innovative ways of joining up health and social care. The aim is to
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Tag: Health and Wellbeing
Ulster health workers strike to go ahead
A strike by health workers in Northern Ireland is set to go ahead despite a proposed pay deal drawn up after lengthy talks between unions and the Government in Westminster.
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Webwatch – Skills for Health
Skills for Health has announced the launch of their new website which aims to increase ease of use and access for users. The site has had a total makeover using
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Leicester care home fined £100K over burns death
A care home company has been fined £100,000 for breaching safety laws after the death of an 85-year-old resident who suffered serious burns following a fall. Walter Powley died in
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New online training resource for health and charity sectors
Skills for Health have announced the launch of the ‘Skills Platform’, creating the UK’s first dedicated online marketplace for training and personal development within the health and charity sectors. Funded
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Welsh Gov launch ‘live well and live longer’ programme
A new programme to reduce the number of people in some of Wales’ most deprived communities from dying prematurely from cardiovascular disease and cancer has been launched by Deputy Health
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Labour calls for emergency summit on health & social care
Labour has called on the Government to convene an emergency summit of health, social care, council and emergency services to find ways to ease the pressures on struggling accident and
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Health Minister concedes NHS not meeting targets
Health Minister Norman Lamb has admitted the NHS “is not meeting” its targets, as new figures today are expected to show that A&E waiting times have fallen to their worst
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East Lothian consults on integrated health & social care
East Lothian Council and NHS Lothian have launched two consultations on the integration of health and social care in the East Lothian. In April 2015, the new East Lothian Health
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PHE launch campaign in bid to reduce sugar intake of children
Parents are being encouraged to cut back on the amount of sugar they feed their children in a new Public Health England (PHE) campaign launched today. It comes as a
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