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You care, you matter: understanding self-care for social care nurses

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Looking after others often takes its toll on unpaid carers and professional care givers. Taking care of ourselves can sometimes feel like the thing we never get around to doing.

Attending to our own mental health and wellbeing is important. If we are depleted and exhausted, we cannot give our best... at home or at work.

Celebrating International Nurses Day 2025

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This week’s announcement, on International Nurses Day, that the title “nurse” will be protected in law is, in my view, long overdue.

Finally, we can reassure residents, patients and colleagues they are dealing with registered practitioners across all relevant care settings.

Delegated healthcare: the journey continues

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Right care, right place, right time As the conversations about delegated healthcare continue to evolve, the messaging remains clear. Delegation of healthcare activities is happening across adult social care and has been for many years. These voluntary guiding principles support …

Change NHS: your chance to make social care part of the conversation

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This week, the Department of Health and Social Care, in partnership with NHS England, launches the biggest national conversation about the state of the NHS in its 76-year history. Social care voices invited!

New e-learning tool puts prevention first in social care

Care workers with residents in care home

The social care workforce plays a hugely important role in public health. A new e-learning resource, will help care colleagues increase their knowledge and confidence in public health approaches across a variety of care settings.

Ambition fuels rewarding social care careers

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Mental Health Nurses Day takes place this week (Wednesday 21 February), an opportunity to celebrate the unique contribution nurses and support workers make to the care sector. A registered nurse for more than 20 years, David Wilmott has worked across a number of health and care services. He tells his story of a very rewarding career...

Care Workforce Pathway: the role of lived experience

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Social care colleagues will have better training, clearer career paths and improved job prospects following the announcement of government plans to develop the domestic care workforce. Think Local Act Personal's Tim Parkin explains how his organisation helped gather views from care colleagues and others to inform the Pathway's shape.

Adult social care workforce reform: a meeting of minds

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Care colleague helping resident with walking frame

The CareTech Senior Adults team hosted colleagues from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) recently. This included a meeting to discuss current workforce initiatives for the social care sector and then visiting services to meet with front line staff, managers and those we support.