Category: Care staff
WARNING ISSUED AS STAFFING PRESSURES MOUNT IN SOCIAL CARE
A key social care organisation has urged the government to act early to ease the mounting pressures on social care providers. The National Care Forum (NCF) –a not-for-profit...
COLLABORATIVE CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED TO RECOGNISE NATION’S CARE WORKERS
The Institute of Healthcare Management (IHM) has joined forces with The Care Workers’ Charity (CWC), National Care Forum (NCF) and Thank And Praise (TAP) to promote the vital role of those...
PAIR RETIRE AFTER ALMOST 100 YEARS’ COMBINED SERVICE AT CARE HOME
Maritime charity The Royal Alfred Seafarers’ Society is bidding farewell to two of its longest-serving staff members who are retiring after collectively serving 95 years supporting residents...
CARE HOME CELEBRATES LIFE OF RESIDENT OF 34 YEARS
Staff at a care home in Kettering have been celebrating the life of the UK’s oldest man with Down’s syndrome, who passed away on 27th September, just weeks before his 79th birthday. ...
WIGSTON CARE HOME COLLEAGUE BRAVES THE SHAVE FOR CHARITY
A brave care home employee has had her hair shaved to raise money for charity, in honour of her late father. Tracy Murray, a member of the housekeeping team at HC One’s Cedar Court...
SOCIAL CARE BOSS LEADS SECTOR FLU VACCINATION CAMPAIGN
A top healthcare boss is pleading with health and social care staff not to miss having the annual flu vaccine this year, to protect the sector at an increasingly difficult time. Uptake from...
CARE BOOST FOR VETERANS AS STAFF QUALIFY TO PRESCRIBE
A lead nurse and a lead physiotherapist at Royal Star & Garter have become the first members of staff in the charity’s care homes to qualify as non-medical prescribers. Yuriy Bukovych...
RECORD MONTH OF JOB APPLICATIONS AT HEATHCOTES
Heathcotes Group, a Chesterfield-based care provider, has experienced a major surge in demand for jobs in the sector following a record month of applications for support worker positions nationwide....
THE INTRINSIC ELEMENT OF ETHICAL PROVISION
Privacy and dignity are a human right, yet 73% of care homes were rated inadequate in this area and are not protecting these values of those in their care to a high enough standard, reports Helen...
ACTS OF KINDNESS FOR WORLD WELLBEING WEEK
Encore Care Homes delivered a thoughtful week of events in celebration of World Wellbeing Week, a global awareness campaign about the importance of health and wellbeing, at the end of June. Based...
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