CQC demands action to address longstanding Mental Health Act concerns
Patients with mental health issues experience care that does not fully protect their rights or ensure their wellbeing, a report by the Care Quality...
Potential sleep-in costs put pressure on local services
Extra cash raised by councils to pay for social care services will be ‘wiped out’ by the cost of paying for the government’s National...
More than 230 million medication errors occur each year, say researchers
An estimated 237 million medication errors could be happening in England each year, according to data, with mistakes in administering drugs more likely to...
Adult social care workforce consultation launched
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has launched a consultation in partnership with Skills for Care looking into the challenges workers in...
Care England wins right to intervene in sleep-in appeal
Care England has now joined the sleep-in fray after winning the right to intervene in Mencap's Court of Appeal case, due to be heard next month.
The...
Cavendish Coalition demand clarity over EU social care workforce
The country ‘cannot afford’ to lose its EU health and social care workforce as it faces ‘huge challenges’ post-Brexit.
The warning from the Cavendish Coalition...
More housing for older people needed says CLG Committee
The House of Commons Communities and Local Government Committee has called on the Government to recognise the link between homes and health in the...
Ombudsman appoints new members
The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has appointed two members to its governing board, the Commission for Local Administration in England.
Deep Sagar has...
NAO criticises DHSC for lack of workforce strategy
Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has not published a workforce strategy for the past nine years and cannot demonstrate that the sector...
Three in four councils unable to help disabled adults
Sense is calling on the Government to give more resources to local authorities to help carers and adults with disabilities make future care plans.
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