Anyone working in the adult social care sector will appreciate the pressing need to grow the workforce – which is already 1.47 million strong – to ensure it is fit
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The number of patients stuck in hospital despite being well enough to leave has increased by 9% in a year, official figures show. The latest NHS Scotland Information Services Division
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Widow and Frank’s Law campaigner Amanda Kopel has said she hopes “no promises are broken” on the eve of the legislation’s introduction. The expansion of free personal care (FPC) –
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Older people’s charity, Independent Age, has called on local councillors to back the public’s call for the government to introduce free personal care for over 65s – something that is
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Free personal care will be available regardless of age or income from Monday when Frank’s Law comes into force. The campaign to expand free personal care in Scotland, which was
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Council social services bosses say they are trying to arrange a care package for a woman with mental health difficulties after a judge said she had “effectively been detained” in
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A blind 98-year-old Second World War veteran who became embroiled in a High Court battle because he wanted to leave a care facility is back at home, a judge has
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A blind 97-year-old Second World War veteran embroiled in a High Court battle because he wants to leave a care facility might be able to return home. Former Royal Navy
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Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services, Julie Morgan, has announced changes to the way care is delivered for people previously in receipt of the Welsh Independent Living Grant to
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Three out of five social care providers have had to close down parts of their work or hand back contracts to local authorities because of financial pressures, according to a
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