Social Care – Page 92 – Care Appointments

How to rekindle your love for your job in social care

By Hans Schumann4th January 20194th January 2019Career Advice

If you work in social care, chances are high that you once chose your profession out of a genuine desire to help other people. It’s an advantage you have over

Could you put the needs of others first over Christmas and into the new year

By Iain MacDonald21st December 201823rd December 2018New To Care

Spare a thought on Christmas Day as you sit down to watch the Queen’s speech or prepare to tuck into your turkey, for all the care workers who are putting

Controversial care reforms for vulnerable people clear first commons hurdle

By The Press Association19th December 20182nd January 2019News England

Reforms to make it simpler for care homes and hospitals to hold vulnerable people who cannot consent to treatment or care have cleared their first Commons hurdle – despite cross-party

Squeezed funding and staff shortages leaving home care sector ‘extremely fragile’

By Joe Gammie11th December 201823rd December 2018News England

Squeezed funding and staff shortages are creating “extremely fragile” home care services, a report has warned. A leading think tank and a university said fees for home care services are

Scottish Government blocked from paying settled status fees to EU citizens

By The Press Association9th December 201823rd December 2018News Scotland

The UK Government will not allow Holyrood ministers to pay £65 settled status fees for European citizens who are working in Scotland’s public services, Nicola Sturgeon has said. The First

New healthcare law to ensure safe staffing levels passes first hurdle

By The Press Association7th December 201823rd December 2018News Scotland

The Health Secretary has committed to adding day-to-day assessments of staff needs into new legislation aimed at ensuring safe numbers of healthcare workers. Holyrood unanimously passed the Health and Care

Mental health tribunals need more powers to care for people outside hospitals, says judge

By Brian Farmer and Joe Gammie7th December 201823rd December 2018News England

A specialist judge involved in an independent review of mental health legislation has said tribunals need more powers to help people to be cared for outside hospitals. Anselm Eldergill, a

Call for high quality community care amid warning terminally ill ‘stuck on hospital wards’

By Ella Pickover5th December 201823rd December 2018News England

A patient in their last year of life is admitted to hospital as an emergency case every 20 seconds, a charity has said. New analysis from the terminal illness charity

Thieves steal £2,000 Christmas funds from day care centre in East Lothian

By Paul Ward5th December 201823rd December 2018News Scotland

A safe containing funds for a Christmas lunch has been stolen from a care home by thieves using a wheelchair. Police said there was more than £2,000 of cash in

CRG says it’s ‘business as usual’ as it strikes deal to aquire Allied Healthcare

By Helen William1st December 201823rd December 2018News England

A deal has been struck to help avoid disruption to vital home services to 13,000 elderly and disabled people, it has been announced. Privately-owned CRG, a leading home care, healthcare,

More than half of councils face insolvency over special needs spending – survey

Man with Down’s syndrome died after care worker ‘landed on him’ in swimming pool

NHS trust fined £1.6 million for ‘catalogue of failures’ that led to deaths of babies

Judge-led inquiry to be held into Nottingham attacks in ‘matter of weeks’, PM announces