Category: News

The CQC and Ofsted have conducted a number of joint inspections since 2016, investigating how well local areas are fulfilling their responsibilities for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). These joint inspections will look at how […]

Leading charities have written a letter to the health secretary, appealing for relatives of care home residents to be treated as key workers. They argue that the current restrictions on family visitations are having “damaging […]

A new national survey from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has found that most patients were pleased with the care they received in hospital but were less confident about the arrangements surrounding hospital discharge and […]

Emergency transport and ambulance services are an area of healthcare that has rapidly had to adapt in recent months. This has been particularly difficult for independent ambulance services. As part of the Emergency Support Framework, […]

The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) has said that the rushed discharge of patients from hospitals to care homes during the peak of COVID-19, led to a surge in care home deaths. […]

The past few months have seen an almost instantaneous change in how healthcare providers deliver their services. With new rules surrounding social distancing and personal protection, we’ve seen an overhaul in how services across the […]

With COVID-19 drastically changing the way healthcare providers run their organisations, there is nothing more important at this time than infection control. Public Health England – along with NHS England, NHS Improvement and other bodies […]

As the COVID-19 continues to impact the lives of everyone in the UK, care homes throughout the country are spiralling into crisis. Two of the major care home providers revealed today that 521 of their […]