The Self Care Forum believes awareness weeks are vital for encouraging people to make better choices about their health and wellbeing. Chair, Helen Donovan, explains how we can all help make the change...
Dementia is the biggest challenge the health and social care system faces today with 800,000 people with dementia in the UK, and that figure is set to rise to one million by 2021. Over the last few years, there has …
Care and Support Minister Norman Lamb announces the latest funding to help voluntary organisations improve people’s health and well-being. The latest round of funding to support voluntary and community organisations to improve people’s health and well-being has now opened, the …
This annual campaign, led by Mencap and running until 25 August, celebrates the strength and courage of people with a learning disability, their families and carers. This year, it is celebrating families and the everyday superheroes who make all the …
The UK is to host the first G8 dementia summit to lead international action on tackling the condition. The UK is making the fight against dementia global by hosting the first G8 summit dedicated to seeking an ambitious level of …
Following the NHS re-structure in April, work is underway to re-assign individual NHSmail email accounts from the old to the new structures. If you have regular contact with NHS staff or organisations please note that, as a result of this work, some …
The National Skills Academy for Social Care, working in partnership with Skills for Care and MacIntyre, has just launched a new values-based recruitment toolkit for employers. At present, employers in social care face two key challenges: how to find and …
Think Local Act Personal, an alliance of over 30 national social care partners committed to improving the delivery of personalised community-based support, has launched a set of three tools to help improve the provision of information and advice available in …
The Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt announced on 5 July that he is seeking views on a set of proposals to radically improve care for vulnerable older people. The proposals set out improvements in primary care and urgent …
The Department of Health’s response to the Confidential Inquiry into premature deaths of people with learning disabilities and the Six Lives Progress Report on Healthcare for People with Learning Disabilities has shown that far more needs to be done across …
The Government has set up a national group to tackle sexual violence against children and vulnerable people. The national group is a panel of experts brought together by the Home Office to co-ordinate and implement the learning from recent inquiries into …