More than a quarter of UK care home staff do not believe coronavirus vaccines should be mandatory for them to go to work, research suggests. Some 67% supported the Government’s
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More needs to be done to help struggling ambulance services which have been forced to call in military support, a union has said. Unison said that “something is wrong” when
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Coronavirus vaccinations will be compulsory for all staff working in care homes in England from November 11, according to new guidance. The Government has published guidance to help managers with
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Skills for Care has announced the launch a new vision which sets out their strategic aims for adult social care over the next three years. The new strategy sets out
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A ground-breaking report from Community Integrated Care (CIC) has found that many frontline social care workers are undervalued by as much as 39% – nearly £7000 per year – in
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When it comes to making decisions, you may turn to your own experience, talking with a colleague, or a simple gut instinct, but another tool to support effective decision making
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Domiciliary care services continued to grow during the pandemic according to data from Skills for Care’s latest ‘The size and structure of the adult social care sector and workforce in
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Government advisers are to investigate the effect ending freedom of movement after Brexit is having on the social care sector and its workers. Home Office minister Kevin Foster wrote to
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A shortage of specialist learning disability nurses could be “putting lives at risk”, leading nurses have warned. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said that the number of learning disability
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Claims that physiotherapists are being substituted for nurses are “misleading”, senior physiotherapists have said. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has called for a crackdown on the advertising of nursing
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