Category: Social Care
NHS and social care issues highlighted by Covid, say top medics Bournemouth Echo MPs say social care must be part of recovery plan as NHS waiting list hits record levels carehome.co.uk News NHS recovery ‘doomed’ without right support for social care LaingBuisson Address staffing crisis to tackle waiting list backlog, say MPs The BMJ View Full coverage on Google […]
How the ‘exodus’ of social care staff is affecting the elderly and vulnerable in Portsmouth Hampshire Live
People with dementia have fared badly in the last two years, and in Wales worst of all My mother, Nancy, is a scientist. The first person in her family to go to university, she was awarded a doctorate in organic chemistry in 1960. A chemistry teacher for 20 years, she enabled scores of young women […]
Social care isolation rules relaxed amid concerns over staffing shortages Evening Standard Covid: Social care isolation rules relaxed after concerns over staffing shortages GB News Care home Covid outbreak rules relaxed in bid to ease pressure on health and social care sector iNews Crippling care home isolation rules are eased Daily Mail Care home isolation rules relaxed due to […]
Crises such as public health must be met by the state and there’s the Conservatives’ rub Conservatives look like cranks today, not because of personal failings of this or that politician, but because they cannot deal with the crises of the modern world. It’s not that they don’t have answers – rightwing thinkers spit them […]
A social care ‘covenant’: how might archbishop’s plan work? The Guardian
Deprived of resources and beset by fatigue, no amount of individual responsibility can bear the weight of structural failure Over the course of the past year as a trainee social worker, I have spent months in residence in both a residential aged care facility and in a youth mental health service operated by a hospital […]
LEGAL ADVICE: Delays to the Liberty Protection Safeguards Care Home Professional
Mother says her 24-year-old son’s care at a hospital in Cheshire is ‘worse than being in prison’ The family of an autistic man confined to an apartment and fed through a hatch are planning a legal challenge against his conditions, in a case that will increase pressure on the government to end the practice of […]
Social care system ‘unfit for purpose’, says former children’s commissioner Denbighshire Free Press England’s social care system is ‘infuriatingly inadequate’ and could be doing more harm than good, report says Sky News Social care system ‘handing some children over’ to gangs, report warns – as government rolls out ‘urgent reforms’ NationalWorld Damning report says ‘unfit’ care system is […]