Home care workers are being encouraged to give their views – before the 16 February deadline – in a consultation on whether the government should scrap Covid vaccination as a condition of employment in NHS and social care settings. Home care staff were required to have had their first dose of a Covid vaccine by […]
The number of home care staff working in England has fallen by more than 17,500 since September, NHS England data reveals. Some 406,365 domiciliary care staff were working in registered care settings (other than care homes) in the week ending January 30 – that’s a loss of 17,664 staff – when compared to w/e September
Home care sector has lost over 17,500 workers since September. Published by Homecare UK. Read More »
Paul Monaghan is living with dementia and has been feeling the cold this winter. With energy bills on the rise, he wonders if it will soon become difficult to heat the whole house. Paul is 64 years old and lives in Omagh, Northern Ireland. He was diagnosed with young onset dementia in January 2018. People with dementia
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Unvaccinated home care workers, who are not medically exempt, are required to have their first dose of a Covid vaccine by 3 February, in order to keep their jobs and comply with the government’s vaccination rules coming into force on 1 April. According to vaccine guidance from the Department of Health and Social Care (published
The Home Office is hosting two webinars for the care sector to describe the recruitment process for overseas care staff under the government’s points-based immigration system. The one-hour sessions on 21 January and 25 January includes updates on the Health and Care Visa, the Skilled Worker visa, recruiting overseas care workers from mid-February, how to
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The Department of Health and Social Care has announced free PPE for all frontline health and care staff has been extended until 31 March 2023. The move follows after a public consultation was launched in October 2021 to determine whether to extend the central, free provision of PPE. Over 5,000 responses were received, from a
MPs are calling for a broader national health and care recovery plan by April 2022, that as well as fixing the NHS backlog, also encompasses emergency care, mental health, primary care, community care and social care, saying ‘without the right support for social care, a recovery plan for the NHS is doomed to failure’. The
The government has expanded the Health and Care Visa scheme in a bid to stem the care sector recruitment crisis, making foreign care workers eligible for fast-track UK visas. The change means foreign care home and home care workers will be eligible for the Health and Care Visa for a 12 month period. The Migration
PRN Care lent our gazebo to a local barbers The Man Barber Shop on Linden Rd, Bognor Regis. They were doing charity haircuts on Christmas eve to raise money for a local lad in Littlehampton called Adrian Tomasz Wieclawski. PRN have also donated a raffle to prize to help them raise more funds. Adrian was
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