health and social care

Reading Time: < 1 minute Labour has discarded its social care commitments and seems set to repeat the failure of previous governments to tackle the care crisis,…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Care leaders have warned of a serious safety risk as research revealed 60% of homecare providers had not been inspected for at…

Reading Time: < 1 minute A new “hostile environment” for immigrants is putting off NHS and care staff from applying for jobs in the UK while forcing others to return…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Lack of children’s social workers an increasing risk to the department achieving its objectives, amid persistently high vacancy rates and use of…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Labour has abandoned plans for an £86,000 lifetime care spending cap, claiming the Tories left the scheme ‘unfunded’ despite it being due…

Reading Time: < 1 minute A nursing associate has been suspended for a year for slapping a dementia patient on the neck, a medical regulator has ruled. …

Reading Time: < 1 minute   When people think of care in later life, they often assume it will be provided in a residential care home. Read…

Reading Time: < 1 minute More than a hundred migrants and their families face being in Britain illegally after the company which sponsored them to come to…

Reading Time: < 1 minute A homecare agency where staff did not understand the words “bruise or “infection” has been forced to shut down. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minute Thousands of agency staff could leave the NHS and social care services in the next two years, new research has suggested.  Read…