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    • Sunday, 9 July, 2023
      UK social care
      Union calls out ‘shocking abuse’ of migrant careworkers in UK

      More cases of recruits from abroad being forced to pay thousands in upfront fees and relocation costs, says Unison

      Care worker pushes patient in wheelchair
    • Friday, 5 May, 2023
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      How to have a good death

      A long-time palliative care nurse tells us what we owe the people who help us die

    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      FT Magazine
      My mother took huge pride in her job as a nurse. Why did that have to change? 

      After decades caring for people at their most vulnerable, her experience maps the path the UK has taken

    • Monday, 13 June, 2022
      Stephen Bush
      Care homes have a problem — they are focusing on the wrong customer

      The ‘testimonials’ page of many facilities is long on statements from relatives, but not from those in care themselves

      Ewan White illustration of a younger couple with an older person standing outside a care home looking in
    • Friday, 1 April, 2022
      Camilla Cavendish
      As Britons lose faith in the NHS, it’s time to demand better care

      For decades the health service has been our national religion, but the Shrewsbury maternity deaths expose shocking failures

      Jonathan McHugh illustration of a stained glass window of a nurse holding a newsborn. The panes are starting to fragment
    • Monday, 24 January, 2022
      Management
      How cronyism corrodes workplace relations and trust

      When a group is under threat, the instinct can be to close ranks rather than act in the best interest of the organisation

    • Wednesday, 20 January, 2021
      Coronavirus
      Care homes confident of avoiding repeat of UK’s first Covid wave

      Even with rising infections, providers say better controls and vaccine rollout are preventing mass outbreak

    • Tuesday, 19 January, 2021
      UK politics
      English care homes that take Covid patients to be provided with insurance

      U-turn comes after plan to relieve hospitals fell short as groups struggled to secure policies

    • Sunday, 18 October, 2020
      UK politics
      Care homes lobby groups criticise regulator over Covid response

      Care Quality Commission accused of not providing enough support and oversight in first months of pandemic

      A nurse puts on PPE
    • Thursday, 14 May, 2020
      UK social care
      UK care providers call for direct payment of bailout funding

      Little confidence among operators that fresh cash directed via local authorities will reach frontline operations

    • Friday, 17 April, 2020
      UK social care
      Death toll in UK care homes from coronavirus may be 6,000, study estimates

      50% jump seen in fatalities of frail and elderly, but only a few recorded as Covid-related on death certificate

    • Sunday, 9 February, 2020
      News in-depthThe Big Read
      Private equity and Britain’s care home crisis

      A battle over care home provider Four Seasons raises troubling questions for a sector Boris Johnson has pledged to fix

      Nurse with senior woman at home, holding hands.
    • Tuesday, 14 January, 2020
      NHS Providers
      Mental health operator told to improve service after inspection

      US-owned Cygnet Health Care more likely to use restraint and seclusion than other NHS providers

      T5EK76 NHS Protest
    • Tuesday, 6 November, 2018
      UK outsourcing
      Local authorities braced for collapse of care provider Allied Healthcare

      Regulator issues warning over plight of 13,500 elderly and disabled people if company fails

      B6JPAE An elderly woman sits waiting on a bed.
    • Sunday, 10 December, 2017
      UK politics
      Leading London NHS trust chairman quits amid funding crunch

      Head of King’s College Hospital and former civil service chief raises temperature on health cash

      London, United Kingdom - September 21, 2013: A Mercedes-Benz Emergency Ambulance Car in Brighton, UK. Lights flashing, it is rushing by the Brighton promenade. Motion blur, selective focus on the car. Most ambulances in the UK are operated by the NHS trust. The emergency phone number in the UK is 999.
    • Thursday, 6 July, 2017
      UK care homes
      One in three English nursing homes are underperforming

      Care Quality Commission says 32% of homes inspected are ‘inadequate’ or need improvement

      Nurse holding hands with elderly patient.
    • Sunday, 21 May, 2017
      UK companies
      Four Seasons Health Care raises fees for elderly

      UK’s biggest care home operator says increases needed to offset food and energy costs

      BRISTOL, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 16: In this photo illustration an elderly person sits in a chair at home on February 16, 2015 near Bristol, England. The issues affecting the elderly, along with education and the economy are likely to be key elections issues in the forthcoming general election in May. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
    • Wednesday, 8 February, 2017
      UK politics
      Spending cuts indiscriminate, says UK watchdog

      Hospitals in despair and education next in line for crisis, warns audit office chief

      High profile event with Sir Amyas Morse, Head of the National Audit Office, giving a lecture chaired by Dr Jon Davis at the Edmund J. Safra lecture theatre, King’s (Strand Campus) on Tuesday February 8, 2017.
    • Friday, 5 February, 2016
      UK care homes
      UK elderly care homes in crisis as local authority cuts bite

      Rising staff costs and employee shortages add to pressure on sector

      C14C98 Resident of an old peoples' home, UK
    • Thursday, 28 January, 2016
      Management
      From heartache to happiness in a day

      Running Helen and Douglas House means dealing sensitively with death and keeping cash coming in

      Clare Periton of the Helen & Douglas House Hospice in Oxford
    • Thursday, 15 October, 2015
      UK politics
      UK social care ‘in crisis’, warn charities

      Sector’s regulator reveals concerns over safety standards

      LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 13: Two NHS staff walk with an elderly patient outside St Thomas' Hospital on October 13, 2011 in London, England. Inspections carried out by the Care Quality Commission in England have found concerns in the standard of basic elderly care in over half the hospitals assessed. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
    • Tuesday, 22 September, 2015
      World
      Special measures for Addenbrooke’s expose NHS pressures

      The service is struggling often losing sometimes losing to cope with the tightest five-year financial settlement in its history

      Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in special measures...Embargoed to 0001 Tuesday September 22 File photo dated 16/9/2015 of Addenbrooke's University Hospital in Cambridge, as one of the biggest NHS trusts in the country is to be placed in special measures after inspectors deemed it "inadequate". PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday September 22, 2015. Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Addenbrooke's Hospital, has been told it requires improvement to ensure services are safe and effective. See PA story HEALTH Addenbrookes. Photo credit should read: Chris Radburn/PA Wire
    • Tuesday, 22 September, 2015
      UK politics
      Cambridge health trust put under special measures

      Inspectors rate Addenbrooke’s and Rosie hospitals as ‘inadequate’

      LONDON - MAY 7:  The National Health Service logo is shown on the wall outside St Thomas's Hospital May 7, 2003 in London, England. Britain's Health Secretary Alan Milburn is trying to convince critics of his foundation hospital plans ahead of a House of Commons vote. Milburn has told MPs the NHS had to change to keep pace with the modern world. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images)
    • Sunday, 7 June, 2015
      UK politics
      NHS urged to address cost differences

      Hospitals told they must eliminate huge variations in costs and performance between each other

      Two care workers assist an elderly man
    • Monday, 20 October, 2014
      Healthcare
      14 Care UK homes face investigation

      Private equity-owned healthcare business also under threat of strike in Doncaster

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