health and social care

Reading Time: < 1 minute British social care providers will have to prioritise hiring foreign care workers already in the country before recruiting from overseas, the government…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Care home bosses have been ordered to hire foreign workers already living in the UK before recruiting from overseas. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minute Two care workers have been jailed after subjecting more than ten elderly and vulnerable residents to ‘humiliating and degrading’ treatment. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minute Higher care provider fees and stretched council budgets are leading to a “doom loop” for adult social care where there is less…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Nigerians living in the United Kingdom have protested against rising cases of certificate of sponsorship scams in the country.  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minute Migrant workers who come to the UK to bolster the country’s care system are having to share beds, sleep rough, and are…

Reading Time: < 1 minute A care home nurse is to be struck off because “wide-ranging competency and language issues” were putting patients at risk.  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Care Quality Commission has “lost its way” with inspections of care homes, hospitals and other facilities years out of date, its…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Care providers will descend on Westminster next month to demand the Government plug a ‘£2billion funding shortfall’ following the October Budget.  Read More