health and social care

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The Care Quality Commission has “lost its way” with inspections of care homes, hospitals and other facilities years out of date, its…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

Reading Time: < 1 minute Britain’s care homes are at ‘breaking point’ on funding amid ‘stretched’ staffing levels, owners and residents warned today amid fears the industry…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Children’s services jointly run by two London councils have been awarded an Outstanding rating by Ofsted three times in a row –…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Residents in Hillingdon receiving social care may be set to pay hundreds more per year under new plans.  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minute Thousands of Britain’s most voiceless and vulnerable are living in failing care homes, new figures reveal.  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minute Three sentences in Labour’s 1945 manifesto contained a simple but historic promise: “The best health services should be available free for all….