Adult wards at St Andrew’s Healthcare, a major independent mental health provider, has been criticised by inspectors from the Care Quality Commission, after an inspection at a facility in Northampton. The provider … Read more
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A service run by Curae Home Care has been shut down and an investigation launched into its practices over concerns it was putting clients at risk of harm. The Care Quality … Read more
Private recruitment firms have received a 40 per cent cut of a £1.8million NHS campaign budget to attract overseas nurses to Northern Ireland during an unprecedented staffing crisis. Despite the … Read more
Full story in The Guardian, 15 September 2018 Thousands of nurses, therapists and psychiatrists are quitting NHS mental health services, raising serious doubts about ministerial pledges to dramatically expand the workforce. Two … Read more
Research by the Labour Party has found that almost half of maternity units at hospitals in England were closed to expectant mothers at least once during 2017. The party say … Read more
NHS trusts are spending millions of pounds outsourcing staff to new private companies, research suggests. A Freedom of Information (FOI) request by Unison has revealed that NHS trusts in England … Read more
