Declining Covid-19 deaths reassuring but NHS still under pressure
The NHS Confederation is urging the government to maintain its cautious approach to lifting lockdown as the more transmissible Brazilian…
Feature: Vaccine hesitancy among social care staff
Care providers are operating with more than 40% of their workforce unvaccinated, a poll by social care lawyers found. The…
Urgent need to better fund and fix social care
Nine out of ten MPs say that local government does not have enough resource to meet the growing need for…
Additional one million staff needed in social care
The Health and Social Care Select Committee has published evidence showing that an additional one million staff will be needed across…
Feature: Protecting people’s mental health post Covid-19
Charities are urging the government to produce a plan to protect people’s mental health after a helpline reported a 400%…
Care providers call for ten-year plan for social care
Care providers are calling on Rishi Sunak to commit to a ten-year plan to tackle the adult social care crisis…
Committee to examine government plans to reform social care
The Health and Social Care Committee has launched an inquiry to examine government plans to reform social care. The Committee…
Now is the time to embrace digital transformation in adult social care
Lisa Greaves, business development manager at Connexin Health writes on the role technology can play in adult social care. The pandemic…
