29 Sep 2022
The creation of TikTok videos, reminiscing about school days and creating poetry and rap has been causing some residents of one Liverpool care home to turn visitors away because ‘the children are in’. Every.....
29 Sep 2022
Alzheimer’s Research UK has called a new drug "historic" for its ability to slow the pace of brain decline caused by Alzheimer’s disease. The drug, lecanemab, can remove toxic beta-amyloid proteins that build.....
28 Sep 2022
Care homes are facing "frightening challenges" which include "rocketing" food prices and energy bills as well as insurance premiums 400 per cent higher than pre-pandemic levels, prompting care chiefs to demand local authorities deliver.....
28 Sep 2022
Twin sisters, who were separated after seeing each other every day for 90 years, have been reunited at a Northwich care home and are now determined they will never be “separated again”. Twins Winifred “Winnie”.....
27 Sep 2022
A care home based in Whitstable has introduced a new initiative to help alleviate the feelings of anxiety by replicating a "calm" and "soothing" hug for residents living with dementia. Bradbury Grange has brought.....
23 Sep 2022
The Local Government Association (LGA) and the Independent Care Group (ICG) are calling on the Prime Minister to deliver the £13 billion pledged to tackle the crisis in adult social care as part of her leadership campaign. It.....
22 Sep 2022
The health and social care minister's new plan for patients, which includes recruiting one million volunteers to help the NHS and social care, has been criticised as "an insult to skilled care workers". Our.....
22 Sep 2022
Health and Social Care Secretary Thérèse Coffey has launched a £500m Adult Social Care Discharge Fund to free up hospital beds and help fix the social care crisis. There are currently 13,000 patients in hospitals.....
21 Sep 2022
Major General Tim Tyler, chair of Royal Star & Garter, a charity which runs care homes for military veterans, has revealed what it was like attending the Queen’s funeral in Westminster Abbey. The Queen had.....
21 Sep 2022
Just days after the death of her mother Queen Elizabeth II, HRH the Princess Royal visited a care home to meet staff as well as a resident who had written to the late monarch urging her to visit the care home......
20 Sep 2022
A couple who fell in love in a care home in Surrey have tied the knot saying “it’s been a dream come true”. Simon Fisher, aged 55, proposed to Tina Dawn, aged 63, on Christmas Day, three years ago. The.....
15 Sep 2022
A centenarian at a care home in Christchurch has received one of the last 100th birthday cards from the Queen, with the care home’s manager calling it a “special keepsake” to “treasure forever”. Mercia Crighton.....
15 Sep 2022
Five generations of women in the same family brought 'tears of joy' to 103-year-old Gwendoline thanks to a surprise visit to her care home from newborn great-great-granddaughter Harper. Gwendoline, who lives.....
13 Sep 2022
Staff at a care home in Salisbury are wearing black for nine days of national mourning, following the death of Queen Elizabeth II. During the period of national mourning, the Queen will lie in state in Edinburgh.....
13 Sep 2022
Doctors have been told by the British Medical Association (BMA) that it is 'entirely reasonable’ for them not to give the Autumn Covid booster vaccine in care homes because GPs ‘need to be appropriately resourced to do this workforce-intensive.....
12 Sep 2022
Not-for-profit care provider Anchor Hanover Group is expanding to run 127 care homes, following its purchase of two more homes in Yorkshire. The provider of care and housing for over 55s has bought The Mill.....
12 Sep 2022
A wheelchair user with a spinal injury that led to him to live in a care home for seven years, is sailing solo around the UK and Ireland but admits planning it is a “whole new level of stupid”. British man.....
09 Sep 2022
With the death of Queen Elizabeth II, described as “Elizabeth the Great”, came a wave of reflection and remembrance amongst Britain’s oldest who shared their own stories about the country’s longest reigning “marvellous” monarch......
08 Sep 2022
With reports the new health and social care secretary is looking to pay care homes to take in discharged patients from hospital, a social care policy expert says most people "stuck" in hospital “don’t need residential care”. Officials.....
08 Sep 2022
Scotland has ditched face masks for staff and visitors in its care homes as well as care workers giving home care The change in guidance by the Scottish government is due to a sharp drop in coronavirus infections.....
08 Sep 2022
Prime Minister Liz Truss said during her first PMQs clash with Labour leader Keir Starmer that she will be reversing the 1.25 per cent rise in National Insurance and is scrapping the Health and Social Care Levy. During.....
07 Sep 2022
Thérèse Coffey has been appointed England’s third health and social care secretary in two months and has promised to bring an ‘ABCD’ focus to her new job by solving the problems of ambulances, backlogs, social care and patient appointments.....
06 Sep 2022
Liz Truss is the UK’s new Prime Minister and care leaders are demanding she be 'bold' by making the care crisis her top priority with enough funding, a care home energy price cap and a grant covering home care workers' fuel costs. After.....
05 Sep 2022
Prime Minister Liz Truss must intervene to solve a care staffing crisis which has led to a sticking plaster reliance on agency staff who can be more expensive, inexperienced and unreliable, says Care England's chief executive. Her.....
05 Sep 2022
Millions of people including care home residents, those with weakened immune systems and care workers are being invited to receive the autumn Covid-19 booster vaccine from today. From 5 September, the NHS.....
02 Sep 2022
A care home resident who recently celebrated her 102nd birthday with friends and family says “a tot of whisky every morning” helps keep her going. Elizabeth 'Liz' Brown who lives at Briar Hill House was treated.....
01 Sep 2022
Anyone involved in running the books for a care business will know that fees for care services are VAT-exempt. This has been the case for almost 50 years when, in 1973, the UK joined the European Union. Care.....