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1.5 million children worldwide have been orphaned by the pandemic
According to a new study, an estimated 1.5 million children worldwide have been orphaned because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
UK says COVID vaccine mandatory for care home workers
The UK House of Commons voted to make COVID vaccination mandatory for care home workers, who will need two doses to continue working from October.
Volunteers are a vital part of the NHS’ past, present and future
Mark Lever, Chief Executive, Helpforce, discusses the importance of volunteers throughout the NHS’ history and for its future.
Fixing recruitment challenges in social care – it’s not about pay
Sally Bibb, strengths and talent expert, and Amanda Kelly, adult and children’s social care lead at PA Consulting, explore how the social care sector can be fixed by introducing a strengths-based approach to the recruitment process.
Improving resident wellbeing in assisted living with IoT
In this Q&A interview, Emma Mahy, chief executive of IoT Solutions Group, discusses how IoT has the potential to improve resident wellbeing and revolutionise the social care sector.
The future of adult social care funding
Oliver Brown, Head of Product, Care and Support Tools at Imosphere, explores how financial pressures and a lack of certainty over adult social care funding is a problem for local authorities and the need to bring reform to an already stretched system.
Mental health within social care: Supporting carer and client alike
Peter Seldon, CEO, Consultus Care & Nursing, explores the impact of COVID-19 and mental health within social care settings and what best practices can be adopted to support both carers and clients.
How to develop resilience for flexible workers
Juliette Cosgrove, Chief Nurse & Director of Clinical Governance, NHS Professionals, argues that a focus on flexible worker resilience is needed to support those who support the NHS.
After COVID, can we better manage and prevent the likely rise in elderly falls?
Barak Katz, VP and GM Essence SmartCare, discusses the future of fall prevention and establishing more proactive elderly care, post COVID-19.
Care home residents will be allowed one visitor from today
As part of the government's roadmap to ease lockdown restrictions, care home residents will be allowed one indoor visitor from the 8th of March.
Unpaid carers will have access to free PPE through national scheme
Unpaid carers will now benefit from free Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) through a new national scheme, the UK government has announced.
Social care sector to receive further £120 million for additional care staff
The Government has allocated a further £120 million for the social care sector to help with staff shortages due to the pandemic.
The vaccine isn’t a silver bullet for longstanding pressures in elderly care
Jitesh Patel, Project Director at Kajima Partnerships discusses why the vaccine is not a silver bullet for longstanding pressures in elderly care and how the sector must adapt post-pandemic.
Fighting dementia with food amid the third UK lockdown
Philip Mayling, director of MKG Foods, explores how food can help care home residents suffering from dementia during the third UK lockdown.
Are unreported falls the missing data key to improving elderly care?
Barak Katz, General Manager at Essence Smartcare, reveals how the information we currently aren’t collecting could revolutionise the effect falls have on the victims and their care networks.
How can e-Learning for Healthcare help overcome the ‘opioid epidemic’?
Here, we learn all about the ‘opioid epidemic’ and how e-Learning for Healthcare’s e-PAIN programme is helping NHS staff to overcome it.
Why ‘micro-efficiencies’ matter to clinicians
Dr Owain Rhys Hughes, Founder and CEO at Cinapsis, explores the future of primary care and how, despite the popularity of grand reformations and sweeping initiatives, it's the micro-changes which add up to make the biggest difference to patient care.
What has COVID-19 taught us about the benefits of TEC?
Gavin Bashar, UK Managing Director of Tunstall Healthcare, discusses what healthcare professionals, social care leaders and local governments have learned about the benefits of technology enabled care (TEC) amid COVID-19.
24/7 live-in care at home: A post-COVID solution for the future of UK elderly...
Here, Peter Seldon, CEO of Consultus Care & Nursing explains the potentials of a revolution in elderly care and what we can do to get there.
How can we combat loneliness in care homes?
Red Homes Healthcare discuss the mental health crisis in care homes and explore what can be done to prevent loneliness.