Care agencies ‘must ensure recruits can speak English’
A Government advisor said carers should be able to speak English before being placed in vulnerable people’s homes Care agencies should ensure that the staff they recruit to work in
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Better Care fund ‘delayed over viability’
A £3.8 billion project to pull together health and social care services has been delayed because Whitehall mandarins have said the plans are not credible enough, it has emerged. The
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Government insist Better Care Fund is on schedule
The government has dismissed widespread reports that the introduction of the Better Care Fund will be delayed. Many media outlets had reported this morning that the £3.8bn-a-year fund, which will
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Nurse struck off over affair with rapist in jail
A prison nurse from West Yorkshire who had an affair with a convicted rapist at a top security jail has been struck off the register. Karen Cosford had a relationship
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New report finds 67% of asthma patients ‘dying needlessly’
Asthma patients are dying needlessly as a result of poor care, a damning new report has found. Experts identified ” major avoidable factors” in two thirds of asthma deaths examined.
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Mental health patients forced to travel miles for care
A lack of beds is forcing mental health patients in England to seek treatment in other NHS facilities up to hundreds of miles away, BBC research has found. The number
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NHS accused of ‘failing to learn’ on diabetes care
The NHS is wasting billions of pounds of public money by failing to tackle diabetes early enough, experts have warned. The disease costs the health service nearly £10 billion a
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Carer arrested following Panorama care home programme
A woman has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting a resident at a care home that was the subject of an undercover investigation by the BBC’s Panorama, police said. The
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‘Contemptuous’ Clifford sentenced to eight years for indecently assaulting four girls
PR guru Max Clifford has been jailed for eight years for a string of indecent assaults on four women. The 71-year-old finally fell from grace after decades influencing the media
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90 face redundancy as Care UK closes dementia home
A Poole care home which looks after up to 50 people with dementia, is due to shut after a change in the contract between Borough of Poole and Care UK,
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