The COVID-19 pandemic has bought into sharp focus how difficult it can be to cope with multiple and abrupt changes in one’s life simultaneously. Rapidly...
Author - lisa
Over the coming weeks the country may be finally out of lockdown. If so it would be tempting to refer to that period as ‘post-Covid’ where we can focus on...
Deborah Sturdy OBE, Chief Nurse, Adult Social Care
Jamie Waterall, Deputy Chief Nurse, Public Health England
The pandemic has brought huge challenges for...
Paraid has launched a new 24V, Lithium-Ion battery operated, motorised transfer chair, to further complement its wide range of products. The IBEX Power is...
Working on the frontline of the pandemic, care workers have found themselves under immense pressure since the onset of COVID-19. An already stressful...
Working in social care is a hugely rewarding career, but it can also be challenging – never more so than this past year. It’s vital that workers look after...
Here’s a scenario:
You finally become manager of a care home just as Covid-19 starts to rampage. In April a lovely resident who has been at the home for many...
Lockdown has meant different things to different people, of course, but many of us have likely spent it with a spouse or family members of whichever...
On 31st May 2011, the appalling abuse of people with a learning disability and/or autism at Winterbourne View hospital was exposed by BBC Panorama. Undercover...
Marie Curie Companion volunteers are helping people in Somerset think about and discuss “what’s important to me” when it comes to the end of life as part...






