Hospital at Home usage increases in Scotland
The number of patients using Hospital at Home in Scotland rose by almost a quarter last year, it has been revealed, as funding allocations for NHS boards were announced. A total of 13 local healthcare providers have been allocated a share of £3.6 million for Hospital at Home for older people to help ease pressure […]
Nutrition, wellbeing and communication top care service complaints in Scotland
Scotland’s Care Inspectorate has published an in-depth report on complaints about care services in the country, with overall complaints down slightly year-on-year. The report covers complaints received and investigated between April 2019 and March 2024, and focuses in particular on the most recent year, 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024. The statistics show the […]
Scotland’s colleges offer funded learning spaces to address social care crisis
Scotland’s colleges have responded to the recruitment crisis facing social care by launching Introduction to a Career in Social Care – an online course designed to bring more trained candidates into this area of work at a time when the country faces a social care crisis caused by the skills gap and worsened by the […]
Care Inspectorate highlights issues in Scottish care
Complaints about care in Scotland have risen in the past four years, according to the Care Inspectorate. A new report has revealed that the volume of complaints received by the Care Inspectorate has increased from 4,089 received in 2015/16 to 4,940 in 2018/19. However, the Care Inspectorate stressed that although levels of complaints received have […]
More social care integration needed between the NHS and local government
Senior figures from from the NHS and local Government in Scotland are being urged to increase “pace and effectiveness” of work to integrate health and social care. Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has stressed the need to ‘accelerate progress’, based on a report reviewing the integration of health and social care services to ensure people get […]
New initiatives to fight dementia in Scotland
An ambitious set of initiatives has been announced which will see £2.5 million of investment delivered to support people living in Scotland with dementia. The initiatives, announced by the Life Changes Trust, will create a School of Leadership in Dementia along with a National Forum for Dementia Policy and Practice. Both initiatives will support people […]
£2.5m boost for ‘dementia friendly’ Scottish communities
Scottish charity the Life Changes Trust has doubled its national investment in communities that are dementia friendly, with a second wave of funding of £2.5 million. This brings their total investment to £5 million in the last three years. According to the Life Changes Trust, communities that are inclusive and dementia friendly play a crucial […]
Jobs boost in East Kilbride
AGO Outsourcing has announced that it’s creating nearly 500 new jobs in East Kilbride as part of a £40 million five-year investment, after securing a contract with a blue-chip energy firm. The roles will be made up of over 380 customer service jobs commencing in 2018, along with 90 roles in the company’s sales division, […]
