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Health and care inequalities persist for people with a learning disability
One in four adults with a learning disability who died in 2023 did so with a social care package that did not meet their...
Care providers struggling to fill nurse vacancies, report reveals
Three-quarters of providers in Scotland are reporting difficulties filling nurse vacancies, with the number of registered nurses working in adult care homes declining.
Drawing...
CCH Group expands into North East Lincolnshire with contract win
CCH Group has been awarded a homecare contract in North East Lincolnshire to deliver more than 3,000 hours of care each week through Comfort...
Assisted dying presents challenges for care organisations, says report
UK politicians have been warned not to underestimate the extra capacity needed in the health and care system to get an assisted dying service...
Cost pressures impact pace of later living developments
New build value in the UK later living housing market was worth an estimated £2.2bn last year, analysis from LaingBuisson shows.
While the market has...
Inspections highlight failures in DoLS arrangements
Two-thirds of local authorities that have been inspected by the regulator were found to require improvements to their Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) arrangements,...
‘Accountability arrangements’ to help meet ambitions for adult social care
Plans to ‘radically simplify’ the grant landscape within local authority funding could see ‘accountability arrangements’ aimed at ensuring the government’s ambitions for adult social...
Nine in ten councils increase fees to providers
Nine in ten local authorities in England (90%) increased their average fees paid to external providers ahead of the financial year 2025/26, with rises...
Decreasing trend in complaints about care services
Complaints about care services in Scotland have fallen by 6%, continuing a decreasing trend over the past six years.
The Care Inspectorate received 5,303 complaints...
‘Major uptick’ in senior housing and care home investment
UK healthcare real estate experienced an upswing in investment volumes in the first half of the year.
The senior housing and care home sector saw...
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