The Care Council for Wales have announced four new core training modules are available to enhance understanding of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act. The bilingual learning materials, which
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London South Bank University (LSBU) has accredited and helped develop three innovative new online courses in Obesity Care and Management, including the UK’s first completely online Masters degree in the
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A new professional watchdog for social workers will improve training and drive up standards, Nicky Morgan has declared. The new regulator will put the profession on a par with surgeons
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Michelle Brown, Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing at the University of Derby, has recently published a book to support healthcare and nursing professionals working in palliative and end of life
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A university-developed alert system, designed to assess the needs of people caring for terminally ill loved ones, has featured prominently in the recently published National Institute for Health Research Better
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Skills for Health has added e-assessment modules to its e-learning courses to help organisations avoid unnecessary training. The stand-alone assessments are available for Core Skills Training Framework (CSTF) subjects and
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Scrapping grants for student nurses risks preventing the next Florence Nightingale or Edith Cavell from emerging, ministers have been warned. Labour’s Wes Streeting, a former president of the National Union
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A pioneering scheme which aims to better equip future managers in social care, has been launched as a result of a collaboration between the South East Wales Social Care in
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Nearly 200 former nurses and midwives are expected to return to practice this year – more than double the aim of a Scottish Government-funded scheme. Over 40 participants have already
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Student nurses and midwives are set to stage a protest over the Government’s “crushing” decision to scrap bursaries. Hundreds are expected to gather outside the Department of Health on Wednesday
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