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LOCAL GOVERNMENT

BREAKING NEWS: Healthcare equipment maker goes into liquidation

By Lee Peart 01 August 2025

Healthcare equipment maker NRS Healthcare has gone into liquidation with a winding-up order having been issued.

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Fears of 'risk to life' as healthcare equipment maker on brink of collapse

By Lee Peart 31 July 2025

Council leaders have warned of a ‘a devastating impact’ and ‘risk to life’ with a healthcare equipment maker on the brink of collapse.

SOCIAL CARE

Calls for higher pay for social care as UK worker numbers continue to fall

By Lee Peart 29 July 2025

The Government has faced calls for higher pay and better conditions for social care workers as the numbers of British recruits has continued to fall.

PREVENTION

Sport England signs landmark agreement to transform health

By Lee Peart 28 July 2025

Sport England has announced a major collaboration to transform health in South Yorkshire.

ICB

ICB signals shift to community care under 10-Year Health Plan

By Lee Peart 28 July 2025

NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICB has announced a major shift to community care this winter.

PREVENTION

ICB and councils join forces on Every Move Matters campaign

By Lee Peart 23 July 2025

Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ICB has joined forces with councils in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire as part of the South West Every Move Matters campaign.

SOCIAL CARE

Social care and NHS under threat from overseas worker ban, says care boss

By Lee Peart 23 July 2025

A Welsh care home boss has invited First Minister Eluned Morgan to come and see the threat to social care services and the NHS caused by the ban on overseas care workers.

ICB

Council secures £1m investment to support vulnerable children

By Lee Peart 18 July 2025

Havering Council has secured a £1m investment to support vulnerable children.

SOCIAL CARE

Care home workers twice as likely to live in poverty as average worker

By Lee Peart 17 July 2025

Care home workers and their families are twice as likely to live in poverty as the average UK worker, according to new analysis.

SOCIAL CARE

MPs ask Streeting to 'fully address' social care cost of inaction report

By Lee Peart 16 July 2025

The Health and Social Care Committee has written to health and social care secretary Wes Streeting following the Government’s response to its Adult social care reform: the cost of inaction report.