Healthcare organisations are calling for ministers to tackle low social care pay to attract staff to meet soaring demand.
International recruitment drove improvements in the adult social care workforce in the year to March 2024, but the sector faces ongoing domestic recruitment and retention challenges, new data reveals.
Council leaders have called for Government approval of plans for a new hospital ahead of the Autumn Budget.
A £1.2m grant has been secured for the development of an artificial intelligence (AI) platform to help patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases to get the right treatment faster.
A hospital trust has denied claims by campaigners it is closing an A&E department ‘through stealth’.
A group of NHS workers protested outside Rotherham Hospital earlier this week (7 October) against plans to evict staff from accommodation at the hospital.
Norfolk & Waveney ICB has partnered with virtual care company Feebris to launch a virtual children’s ward, supporting the delivery of hospital-level paediatric care at home.
St Nicholas Hospice Care in Suffolk has a warned of ‘growing financial strain’ after its funding was cut.
A new intermediate care bed facility in South Cumbria is helping hospital patients return home independently.
The Lib Dems have repeated their call for cross-party talks on social care after revealing a steep rise in the number of pensioners per care home.