How social care can mitigate Brexit workforce pressures
Immigration controls implemented as part of Brexit look set to increase pressure on social care, workforce experts have concluded in a new report. However, ‘throwing’ staff at the sector is not the answer, they say. Setting out the future for economic migration into the UK post-Brexit, experts from the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) have recommended that […]
New year and new resolutions for social care
New year, new resolutions… did you make any? Have you joined the many thousands of people who resolved to lose weight, stop smoking or otherwise make healthy lifestyle changes? Are you still going to the gym you signed up for so resolutely on New Year’s Day, while nursing the hangover you promised yourself would be […]
OPINION: Improving the image of care
By Care Home Management With Care Home Open Day just around the corner (June 28), care home managers may well be wondering whether it’s worth the effort to get involved. After all, unless you work in, or have a friend or relative in a care home, why on earth would you be interested in visiting […]
OPINION: Will the green paper mean all-systems go for social care?
By Ailsa Colquhoun, Editor, Care Home Management The care home world has been waiting with bated breath for some good news to come from the Department of Health and Social Care in the form of the green paper on adult social care. And good news will be timely indeed. With all the doom and gloom about […]
GUEST BLOG: Tackling the loneliness of old age together
It seems strange in this day and age of social media and on-demand entertainment and information that social isolation is a problem. Yet, it is, and to the extent that the Prime Minister recently announced the development of a strategy to alleviate loneliness in response to the report of the Jo Cox Commission on Loneliness […]
OPINION: A bright light is shining on care homes
By Care Home Management With all the doom and gloom about “shock care home insolvencies” and the problems of financing care home excellence out of diminishing local authority budgets, how lovely it was to see among May’s Care Quality Commission reports an across-the-board outstanding rating for Mansard House in Preston. Mansard House is a care […]
Bridgepoint readies Care UK sell-off?
Bridgeport has appointed Rothschild to sell the residential care business of Care UK, according to Reuters. Reuters claims to have had the nod on the news from four senior sources close to the business, with one telling the news agency: “Care UK has a very good portfolio of assets and its new care homes are […]
