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Social Care Records Go Digital, Enabling Better Coordination with NHS

The social care sector has undergone a significant digital transformation, with four in five care providers now using digital social care records (DSCRs) – up from just 40% previously. This means nearly 90% of people receiving care now benefit from improved record-keeping systems that are changing how care is delivered. The move from paper-based systems […]

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More Than One in Ten Deaths in UK Now Linked to Dementia

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New analysis from Alzheimer’s Research UK has revealed that dementia remains the UK’s leading cause of death. The condition accounted for more than one in ten deaths in the UK last year, surpassing illnesses such as ischaemic heart disease and cerebrovascular disease. While deaths from other major conditions fell between 2023 and 2024, dementia-related deaths

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1.5 Million Older Patients at Risk Due to Gaps in Frailty Care

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A National Audit Office report has found that GPs in England are failing to provide adequate support and follow-up care for 1.5 million frail older patients, leaving them at increased risk of medical crises and avoidable hospital admissions. The report examines how the NHS identifies and manages frailty, a medically recognised syndrome affecting multiple body

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NHS Faces Winter Emergency as Patients Endure 12-Hour A&E Waits

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Nursing leaders have raised the alarm over a “devastating” winter for the NHS, as new figures reveal a 90-fold increase in patients waiting more than 12 hours in A&E after a decision to admit them. Between July and September this year, 116,141 patients experienced waits exceeding 12 hours, compared with just 1,281 in the same

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UK Hospitals Brace for Unprecedented Flu Wave Before Christmas

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Flu cases in the UK have reached record levels for this time of year, with the NHS warning of an unprecedented wave of illness just weeks before Christmas. NHS England statistics show that an average of 1,717 patients were admitted to hospital with the virus each day last week more than double the figures for

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Speaker Stands with Community as Lancashire Reviews Elderly Care Facilities

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Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has offered firm backing to campaigners resisting proposals that could lead to the closure of a care home in his Chorley constituency. Grove House, a residential home with space for forty seven people in Adlington, has become a central point of concern after Lancashire County Council placed it on a

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Government Launches Major Reassessment of Carer’s Allowance After Scandal

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The Department for Work and Pensions has launched a wide-ranging reassessment of Carer’s Allowance cases, affecting hundreds of thousands of unpaid carers across the UK, after an independent review revealed serious administrative failings. The review uncovered systemic problems in how the benefit was administered, leaving many carers facing substantial debts and financial penalties. Some recipients

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SCIE Report Highlights Gap Between Social Care Innovation, User Experience

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A new report from the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), titled Shaping Change Together: Co-producing Innovation in Social Care, examines how people receiving social care, carers, and families are involved in shaping services. Drawing on findings from a national survey, the report explores how collaboration works in practice, the barriers that remain, and how

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Low Pay, Chronic Underfunding Threaten UK Homecare System

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Homecare across the UK is facing a crisis, with funding levels so low that legal compliance is challenging, high quality care is increasingly undeliverable, and workforce sustainability is under severe threat, according to The Homecare Deficit 2025, published by the Homecare Association. The report, based on Freedom of Information requests to 276 public bodies, with

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Hillingdon Council Plans 162-Bed Dementia Care Facility on Civic Centre Car Park

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Hillingdon Council has unveiled plans for a major new development aimed at expanding dementia nursing care in the borough. The council intends to dispose of its car park site adjacent to the Civic Centre, known locally as the Lobster Pot, to developer Urban Vision. The site is set to be transformed into a state-of-the-art nursing

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