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Retirement communities good for health and wellbeing, study reveals
Living in a retirement community leads to people having healthier and happier lives, research has shown.
The study found that 90% of retirement community residents...
Repeating mistakes
Professor Martin Green calls for politicians to start making decisions
I recently attended the launch of Baroness Cavendish’s book Extra Time. In this brilliantly written...
MPs warn of crisis in social care
Three out of five politicians say people in their constituencies are suffering because of cuts to social care, with more than three quarters saying...
Market gains beds despite loss of care homes, Knight Frank reveals
There was a marginal net gain of 43 beds in the care home market in the year to April despite a net loss of...
B&M Care continues with growth plans
Rising income from residential care services helped boost turnover at B&M Care, with the group investing in new homes and updating existing properties.
The operator,...
CQC commissions review into regulation of Whorlton Hall
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has commissioned David Noble to undertake an independent review into how it dealt with concerns raised by a former...
Inquiry concludes children subjected to ‘utmost depravity’
Children were subjected to abuse that ‘reached levels of the utmost depravity’ at residential institutions run by the Sisters of Nazareth between 1933 and...
‘Decisive political action’ needed to solve adult social care
Health Foundation analysis has revealed England spends less on publicly funded adult social care per person than Scotland and Wales, with the gap widening.
In...
Long waits for older people with critical or substantial needs
More than four in ten older people in Scotland assessed as needing substantial or critical care last year waited over the six weeks outlined...
Health and social care secretary bids to become PM
Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock announced over the Bank Holiday weekend he plans to run for prime minister.
He is joined by nine...
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