Charity Macmillan Cancer Support has today (March 26) warned that cancer mortality rates in older people are failing to match improvements in mortality rates for younger patients. More than half of all people who’ve been newly diagnosed with cancer are… read more »
Care home managers who employ staff earing the national minimum wage will be affected by an increase in pay rates from October this year it has been announced today (March 20, 2012). The Government announced that the national minimum wage… read more »
Independent care providers in Wales have warned a historic opportunity to reform social care could be squandered unless councils are prepared to work in partnership with them. Care Forum Wales, which represents more than 500 members, believes the new legislation… read more »
Alzheimer’s sufferers in the advanced stages of the disease could benefit from drug treatment, according to a new study published this week. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that drugs used to slow the disease… read more »
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Care home fees are on the rise as local authority budget cuts begin to bite in the social care sector. A report today says thousands more pensioners may have to sell their family homes to afford inflation-busting increases in residential… read more »
The Deputy Minister for Social Services Gwenda Thomas has welcomed the Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales (CSSIW) Chief Inspector’s annual report for 2010-2011, published Monday 20 February. The report can be found here: http://wales.gov.uk/cssiwsubsite/newcssiw/news/5754182/?lang=en In her response to the… read more »
The Care and Social Services Inspectorate (CSSIW)’s chief inspector, Imelda Richardson, published her annual report 2010-2011 on February 20. The key findings from the report included: Local authorities and other social care services are increasingly working together across regional and… read more »
Workshops to explain new E.coli prevention rules An environmental health expert ran the first of two workshops yesterday in North Wales to explain new Food Standards Agency (FSA) procedures introduced in 2011 to prevent serious food poisoning outbreaks caused by bacteria including… read more »
Care Forum Wales’ dementia care advisor, Stephen Ford, has released a new guide to dementia care to help carers deal with difficult situations that sometimes arise when dealing with older people with dementia. He has called his guide ‘A CHAMPIONS’,… read more »