Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s new UK-wide Health and Social Care Levy which will raise £5.4bn for social care over three years has been condemned by a home care leader who calls the figure “nowhere near enough” because the home care sector needs £11.7bn a year. MPs have voted (319 to 248) in favour of a […]
The Care Workers’ Charity is hosting a virtual event between 6-10 September in Professional Care Workers’ Week to “raise much needed awareness” of the social care sector. This year, Professional Care Workers’ Week highlights issues faced by the care sector and brings people together to share best practice, experiences and discuss how to retain and
People would not need to sell homes to pay for their care if the government made more affordable home care available in England by investing at least £5 billion upfront in home care, suggests a think tank. The risk of paying high care costs that force people to sell their homes to pay for care
A smart walking stick that can track the movements of a person with dementia at home and alert care staff to any unusual actions, has been invented by an industrial design student. James Bayliss who is in his final year at Loughborough University, designed the walking stick called ‘AIDE’ to “extend the period of independence
Why choose care at home? When a loved one needs care, many people struggle to decide which is the best route. Whether this is them going into a nursing home, a family member or friend looking after them at home, or having a home carer come in either on a part time or full time
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Professional Care Workers’ Week will return next month to shine a light on the important work happening in the sector. Hosted by the Care Workers’ Charity, the event will take place between 6-10 September and will be held virtually due to uncertainty around COVID-19 infections, and to ensure the event is accessible to a wider
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The global home care software market is “undervalued” despite tremendous growth in the sector in the last two years, experts in the field have suggested. The market is expected to nearly triple in value from 2019 to 2026, growing at an annual growth rate of nearly 14%, according to one research study. Meanwhile, funding for elder
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson rejected a lockdown last Autumn, preferring instead to let Covid “wash through the country” because he thought only people aged 80+ were dying, his ex-advisor Dominic Cummings claims. In an interview, scheduled to be broadcast at 7pm tonight on BBC Two, Dominic Cummings told the BBC that he, UK chief scientific
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Double vaccinated care workers and NHS staff in England can keep working rather than self-isolate from today (19 July) under ‘exemptional circumstances’, the government has confirmed. If health and care workers have been ‘pinged’ by the NHS Covid-19 app or contacted and told to self-isolate as a result of being a close contact of a
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Most directors of adult social services (82 per cent) in England’s councils are more worried about the survival of home care providers in 2021 than they were in 2020 (75 per cent), as an “avalanche of need” arising from the pandemic leaves almost 75,000 people waiting for care. Almost 75,000 disabled, older people and carers
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