The Housing Learning and Improvement Network (LIN), formerly responsible for managing the Department of Health’s (DH) Extra Care Housing capital programme, is a leading ‘knowledge hub’ for a growing network
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An innovative new service providing older people with expert medical and social care in their own home has been launched in Belfast. The new Acute Care at Home team involves
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The GMB union has claimed that a shortage of staff providing home care for some of the most vulnerable people in the Highlands has left the services at breaking point.
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The success of an innovative project set up to improve the quality of life for elderly and vulnerable people in Redcar and Cleveland has been highlighted in a detailed evaluation
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Home care workers must be given enough time to spend with elderly and disabled people and must have enough travelling time between appointments, a health watchdog has said. The National
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Time spent travelling to and from from first and last appointments of the day should count as working time, the European Court of Justice has ruled. The Luxembourg-based court declared
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The Welsh Government is asking people who believe their care should have been funded by the NHS to register their intent to make a claim. Continuing healthcare is a package
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An inspection into adult social services at Powys County Council has revealed the local authority has failed to deliver on an earlier inspection which highlighted an urgent need to modernise
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Age UK North Tyneside has announced the launch of EveryDay – the new name of its professional independent care at home company – an enterprise which helps people keep their
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A Welsh care provider has announced it has 50 jobs on offer in Newtown, Welshpool and surrounding towns and villages. Abacare, which has offices in Newtown and Bangor, provides full
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