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Financial worries and Covid taking its toll, CQC insight report finds
Registered managers of adult social care services are suffering from burn out and extreme anxiety due to multiple deaths in settings and financial worries.
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Isolation among over 65s on the increase, poll finds
Older people are feeling more isolated as their social contact has reduced during the Covid-19 pandemic, polling by older people’s charity Independent Age has...
People most at risk should have been prioritised, MPs told
Care homes should have been a central focus in pandemic planning, a group of MPs have been told.
Giving evidence to a health and social...
How to solve the Covid-19 care home crisis
In April Dr Leonid Shapiro, managing partner at Candesic, wrote about the possible impact of Covid-19 on care homes. He now offers additional thoughts...
VIDEO: Simon Parker speaks to…
In this episode of The Care Home Show Simon Parker, founder of the care management consultancy SP&P, speaks to Professor Martin Green who is...
Opportunity arises for new social care settlement, says former health secretary
Coronavirus has helped drive integration between health and care systems and offers an opportunity for a new settlement for social care, former health secretary...
Child protection needs more rigour
Narinder Singh, specialist in childcare law at Anthony Collins Solicitors, highlights the importance of maintaining a robust child care and protection system throughout the...
Unexpected deaths among people with learning disabilities and autism rise sharply
Figures show there was a 175% increase in unexpected deaths among people with learning disabilities or autism over the period of a month.
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Care homes struggling to effectively isolate residents, says survey
More than half of care homes cannot effectively isolate residents who are suspected to have Covid-19, an Alzheimer’s Society survey has found.
The charity has...
Deaths in care homes could reach 26,000 in England by end of May, predicts...
Analysis by William Laing, chairman of LaingBuisson, predicts 26,000 older care home residents in England will have died from Covid-19 and collateral damage by...
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