Community Care
MAY 11, 2022
The government has increased weekly payments for care home residents with nursing needs by 11.5% as vacancies for nurses working in social care continue to mount. What is NHS-funded nursing care. percentage points on March 2021.
Community Care
JANUARY 31, 2025
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) called on NHS and local authority leaders to establish the teams in guidance on their use of the Better Care Fund (BCF), under which they are required to pool resources to tackle government priorities.
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Community Care
MARCH 29, 2023
As of March 2022, pay for registered nurses in care homes averaged £34,800, which was within the range of band 6 for senior or specialist nurses working in the NHS, which was £32,306 to £39,027 at the time, according to Skills for Care data. for NHS nurses and health visitors. The DHSC said the rise, which follows an 11.5%
Community Care
MAY 13, 2022
ADASS said the results signified a social care system whose capacity was increasingly being outstripped by demand, and urged an immediate injection of government funding, a point echoed by several charities. Government boosts nursing home payments as vacancies continue to mount. Government must fund £10.50
Community Care
MAY 25, 2023
The social care workforce has been boosted by 58,000 overseas staff over the past year, revealed government immigration figures published today. rise in the number of filled care worker posts in residential and nursing homes from March 2022 to April 2023. The nursing home vacancy rate, for all roles, fell from 8.8%
Community Care
DECEMBER 12, 2023
The growth in numbers in 2022-23 came across all service settings – nursing homes, residential homes and community-based care – and among both people aged 65 and over and those aged 18-64. There was also a 2.5% in cash terms (£1.9bn), more than the overall rate of growth in gross adult social care expenditure (7.9%).
Community Care
MARCH 12, 2024
Liberty Protection Safeguards shelved At the same time, the government has shelved its plan to replace DoLS with the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) until after the next election, following repeated delays to its planned implementation date. This means that DoLS will likely remain in place for the for the foreseeable future.
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