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'Urgent action' needed to protect adults with learning disabilities from poor care services
26 Nov 2014
A Government commitment to remove adults with learning disabilities from inappropriate community care placements, made in the wake of 2011’s Winterbourne View scandal, has not only failed, according to an Acevo report published today,.....
Third of local councils criticised for cutting community meals services
13 Nov 2014
Concerns have been raised by the National Association of Care Catering (NACC) over the risk older people face from malnutrition and social isolation, with austerity having a massive impact on the provision of meals on wheels, luncheon.....
Eighty-four-year-old ex-nurse calls for nurses to do less paperwork and more care
07 Nov 2014
A retired nurse has spoken out after the Royal College of Nursing revealed that only one in 10 nurses say they are able to deliver high-quality end of life care. Their inability to deliver the right level.....
Thousands of lives at risk from shortage of NHS learning disability liaison nurses
05 Nov 2014
Nearly 60 per cent of British people are losing faith in the NHS, with people with learning disabilities being mistreated given as a key reason, according to a survey by Mencap. The reason for poor care of patients has been attributed.....
UK poised to combat norovirus and Ebola
03 Nov 2014
Preventing the spread of infection is a challenge all hospitals and healthcare settings will be desperate to demonstrate they are performing well on, as the fight against Ebola continues and the spread of the disease shows no sign.....