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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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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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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More than 75,000 extra deaths have taken place in private homes in England and Wales since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, new analysis shows. Extra deaths – known as
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The Government has said it expects its mandatory vaccination policy to help reduce shortages from care home staff being off due to coronavirus, ahead of a feared exodus next week.
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A charity has warned of a “hidden crisis” of people dying at home without sufficient support, pain relief or dignity and a shortage of nurses to provide palliative care. One
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Social care staff are taking up roles in tourism and hospitality and urgent action is needed to prevent a “tsunami of unmet need” rippling across essential services this winter, the
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The Government is being urged to take action to tackle a staffing crisis in the care sector because of “chronic” underfunding. Unison and the National Care Forum (NCF) have written
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One of the UK’s biggest social care charities, Community Integrated Care (CIC), has announced a £5 million investment in employee pay, reward and wellbeing – including a new basic hourly
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The care sector is struggling to recruit and retain staff, as England enters the next phase of its COVID-19 recovery. So why are care workers leaving the sector in droves,
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