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Authorities’ underpayment of homecare fees is driving staff away

Homecare fee rates paid by the NHS and local councils are too low to ensure professionals can be hired to assist people at home.

Adult Headlines Health Physical Disabilities

6 million people to receive one-off £150 disability cost-of-living payment

Adult Headlines Health In Practice

New bank data analysis reveals NHS staff in financial distress

Children Headlines Health Mental Health

Children receive urgent eating disorder treatment at Oxford Health Trust

Adult Headlines Health

Research shows global health systems are not prepared for another pandemic

Children Headlines Physical Disabilities

Indiana high school students with disabilities achieve better outcomes in inclusive settings

Features & Opinion Headlines In Practice Social Care Management

Feature: We must unlock the full value of volunteers across our public sector

Adult Children Headlines Health

Respiratory diseases lower in homes with retrofitted insulation

Care Headlines

Ombudsman condemns care firm for threatening and abusive complaint response

A Leicester care provider that threatened a vulnerable elderly woman with bailiffs because she complained about the care her husband received has been heavily criticised by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman.

Headlines Health

NHS strikes: pay deal signed off for one million workers

Headlines Physical Disabilities

To infinity and beyond: world’s first disabled astronaut rides the ‘vomit comet’

Children Headlines

‘Considerable’ number of young people unknowingly suffer with high blood pressure

Headlines Health

Recreational vaping banned under major Australian public health move

Families Headlines

Poor health taking ‘huge toll’ on people’s incomes, report shows

Children Headlines

Children’s physical activity recovers in wake of pandemic, study shows

Care Headlines

NHS vaccinates half of care home residents in three weeks