Assembly Members have passed the Safe Nursing Staffing Levels (Wales) Bill to make sure hospitals have safe levels of nurses on duty at all times. The Bill, passed by AMs on February 4, aims to ensure that nurse staffing levels… read more »
Health experts and charities are urging people with chronic kidney disease to get protected against flu as soon as possible. People who suffer from chronic kidney disease are at a higher risk of becoming very ill with flu than the… read more »
It’s time to nominate your fellow social care professionals for the Wales Care Awards 2016. The nominations window is open until March 31, 2016 and the awards take place in City Hall, Cardiff on October 21, 2016 – save the… read more »
A care home boss in Nottinghamshire has been jailed over the death of an 86-year-old woman. Ivy Atkin died after she was found dehydrated, malnourished and with an untreated bed sore at Autumn Grange, Nottingham, in 2012. Yousaf Khan, 47,… read more »
The Care Council for Wales has added another ‘train the trainer’ event to its list in response to demand from social care professionals. It has already held four events in Swansea, Llandudno and Newtown which have been attended by 150… read more »
New sentencing guidelines for health and safety, food hygiene and corporate manslaughter offences come into force today (February 1, 2016), says CFW health and safety consultant Anthony Acari. The news comes as a Nottingham care home boss was jailed for… read more »
The number of people surviving a stroke has significantly improved in Wales, with the death rate falling by more than 1,000 a year compared with a decade ago, a new report has revealed. The third all-Wales annual report for stroke… read more »
Gwenllian Davies, of Awel Tywi Care Home in Llandeilo, who received the Craig Thomas Lifetime Achievement at the 2015 Wales Care Awards, has died aged 110. Wales’ oldest woman (pictured below receiving her award) was told about the award on… read more »
From April 1 there is a new revalidation process that all nurses and midwives will need to go through in order to renew their registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). The NMC is calling on all employers of… read more »
The Welsh Government has announced £2.5m of funding which will support measures to reduce the number of people – the majority of them older people – who are unable to leave hospital for social care reasons, freeing up hospital beds… read more »