The UK Home Office is reporting a significant decrease in visas granted to health care.
I’m Matt Rosser with news that the UK Home Office is reporting a significant decrease in visas granted to health, care, skilled workers and students in the first quarter of 2024 compared to 2023. The Home Secretary James Cleverly says the fall shows that government policies are starting to take effect. The union UNISON is warning this reduction will make a staffing crisis in care even worse.
Carer in Australia has been taken to court for leaving an autistic client in a locked car
Police broke into the car when they were alerted to the man as temperatures were 40 degrees
Scottish MP urges constituents to apply for Take A Break grant
The respite grant is for carers of disabled children aged up to 20
95 year old in Scotland has now been told her carers have been cut
The local council say they regret they have to make cuts in who qualifies for carers
Carers having to pay back benefits has a chilling echo of the Post Office IT scandal
Kate Garraway, who looked after her husband Derek, was responding to stories about the Department of Work and Pensions pursuing unpaid carers for breaching the rules
NHS encouraging local dental practices to hire new dentists
It's part of the government's NHS dental recovery plan.
Over half of England's care home residents have had their spring COVID-19 jab
Over one hundred and fifty thousand people have received the jab, and those who are still eligible for the vaccination are being urged to come forward as soon as possible
Government rejecting applications for disability benefit
The Department for Work and Pensions say they are modernising the disability benefit system to target those who need it most.
GPs across England struggling to find work
The British Medical Association says that GP practices are unable to afford to hire the GPs that they need
Fostering Network has launched its annual survey
By gathering evidence from the survey on the Fostering Network website they want to track changes in trends in fostering and use their findings to better represent foster carers.
£16 million fund to address the exploitation of overseas adult social care staff
the focus has shifted to preventing and responding to unethical employment practices due to concerns about exploitation
South West of England has been rated the best place to be an NHS nurse
The South West particularly excels in staff morale and recognition, according the NHS staff survey
it’s International Nurses’ Day
The day is intended to celebrate the contribution nurses make to society around the world.
700 years to get rid of NHS waiting lists!
Getting back to the levels of January 2023 would take 30 years at the current rate
Yorkshire mums and babies are becoming stars.
They’re two of the families taking part in a project called Born and Bred in Wakefield
NHS Foundation Trust in Peterborough accused of a cover up
It had been due to look into deaths in the mental health unit but the review has now been scrapped
The next generation of healthcare
Currently a building site, but it will be home to state-of-the-art cancer treatment centres when opened.
Benefit overpayments to carers brings risk of debt and prosecution, figures say
Thousands of unpaid carers risk debt and legal issues due to unchecked benefit overpayments, according to an investigation by journalists with the Guardian
New-born lambs evoke residents’ nostalgia as they are given care-home tour
The creatures, all less than twelve days old, were from the staff member’s family business
