A major part of aging in place is living in your home safely and independently. Diabetes can impact your independence, but you can limit its impact. Education is key. Atherosclerosis occurs when deposits of fats, cholesterol, calcium, and other substances build up in the arteries and cause a plaque buildup in the lining of the [...]

UKHCA, the homecare sector’s professional association, has welcomed the government’s commitment to free personal care in the Queen’s Speech. The proposals, if correctly implemented, will recognize people’s general preference for care at home as an alternative to residential care. However, we need more detail on how the new system will operate and be costed. While [...]

Death and dying remain one of the last taboos in our society. Most people would imagine that their GP would be able to talk to them about the care they want at the end of their lives. But in fact more than two-thirds of GPs have not discussed preferences for their own end-of-life care with [...]

“We welcome the Prime Minister’s commitment in the Queen’s speech to reform the current adult care system. However, our evidence shows that for any new system to work it must be fair, transparent and sustainable. Too many users of the current system are left in the dark to struggle with inadequate services. At the moment [...]

Legislation introducing a new registration system for all regulated health and adult social care services in England has now been laid before Parliament. To help social care providers get ready for registration, CQC has published two short guides on its website providing an overview of how it plans to progress registration (for homecare providers between April 2010 – October 2010 [...]

High Quality Care for All and the local visions developed by Strategic Health Authorities that accompanied it set an ambitious goal of putting quality at the heart of the NHS by making it its organising principle. Achieving this goal will require the greatest movement for change in the 60 years since the NHS was created to [...]

Medical recruiters have given a mixed response to a government proposal that by 2013 all new nurses recruited by the NHS will have to have a degree. New courses lasting up to four years will replace the two or three year nursing diploma courses, which are currently the minimum entry level required for those joining [...]