Based on our recent analysis, increasing numbers of care homes are showing signs of financial stress. In fact, 16% now appear to be at risk of failure, which...
Archive - 28th November 2017
Further expansion has been announced by the Regard Group, the UK’s fourth largest private provider of residential and supported living care for people with...
A new initiative announced recently that seeks to ease the burden on both the NHS and social care, coined ‘NHS Airbnb’, raises serious concerns.
Under the...
Loneliness and social isolation are a growing problem in the UK; having a negative impact on the health of many older adults. Therefore, to overcome this in a...
‘Some people are gay. Get over it’. That was the slogan on T shirts that started in 2007. These days you can get variations that cover the whole LGBTQI+...
Debbie Sorkin on how promoting wellbeing in the broadest sense is what social care is for
For this month’s Care Talk, I want to look particularly at the...
Infection Control is an essential discipline within the healthcare industry, and one which has shown significant improvement in recent years.
In 2014, it was...
“It’s coming into work to the smell of freshly baked bread in the morning that made the biggest difference to our whole approach to food and what food...






