The Good Care Group launches specialist mental health service

The Good Care Group has launched a mental health service in Scotland to help address growing pressure on frontline services and gaps in community-based...

Everon partners with college on testing technology in care

Technology provider Everon Group has partnered with East Kent College (EKC) to offer students an opportunity to test technology that will be used to...

CareLineLive rolls out compliance tool for homecare providers

CareLineLive has integrated compliance tool MOA Benchmarking to its platform, supporting homecare operators to keep their records up-to-date and show regulators. As reported in October,...

Care home construction activity to grow despite constraints

The UK care home sector is entering a period of construction growth as providers respond to sustained and rising demand driven by demographic change,...

Baroness Casey highlights ‘fragility’ of adult social care sector

The social care system has been ‘cobbled together’ and remains ‘underpowered’, Baroness Louise Casey has said. Speaking at a Nuffield Trust Summit on Thursday, the...

RMBI Care Co trails falls technology at Connaught Court

RMBI Care Co has trialled bedside technology devices at Connaught Court in York, North Yorkshire, to help prevent falls. The device, called Bide, detects when...

Skills for Care updates framework to support leadership

Skills for Care has refreshed its leadership framework that sets out the behaviours, skills and mindsets needed in adult social care. Its leadership qualities framework...

Care system ‘remains the same’ despite attempts to instigate change

National conversations or big public debates on social care have not had their intended impact, with many people not understanding what it is or...

Dementia study aims to close participation gap

People being cared for by homecare provider Cera will be able to take part in a study designed to capture the ‘silent hours’ of...

Health and care services facing mounting financial pressures

Integration joint boards (IJBs) – together with their NHS and council partners – must take decisions on where to redesign, cut or discontinue services,...