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• Care home pharmacists to help cut overmedication and unnecessary hospital stays for care home residents

  Wednesday, April 11, 2018

  NHS England will recruit and deploy hundreds of pharmacists into care homes to help reduce over medication and cut hospital stays.
  
  NHS England believes this will result in around 180,000 people in nursing or residential homes having their prescriptions and medicines reviewed by new pharmacists or pharmacy technicians.
  
  With the average care home resident being prescribed seven medicines daily and studies suggesting one in 12 of all hospital admissions are medicines-related and two thirds of these are preventable; NHS England believe that by pharmacists reviewing medicines will improved patients’ quality of life by reducing unnecessary use and bringing down emergency admissions, with less time spent in hospitals.

• Skills for Care have just released their latest Local Authority Area Summary Reports

  Tuesday, March 27, 2018

  Following on from, The state of the adult social care sector and workforce in England released by Skills for Care last year; Skills for Care have just released their latest Local Authority Area Summary Reports.
  
  Each Local Authority Area report provides an overview of the adult social care sector and workforce in each of the 152 authority areas with social care service responsibilities across England.

• Jeremy Hunt outlines his 7 principles for Social Care reform ahead of the Government’s Green Paper.

  Wednesday, March 21, 2018

  Speaking at the World Social Work Day conference yesterday, Jeremy Hunt; The Health and Social Care Secretary outlined 7 principles that the Department of Health and Social Care will be considering ahead of the much anticipated Green Paper on Health and Social Care reform.

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  Stoke-On-Trent council agree to a £264m investment in health and social care budget for the next two years.

  Tuesday, February 27, 2018

  On Thursday 22nd February, Councillors on Stoke-on-Trent City Council approved a raft of measures including investing £264m in adult social care, public health and children and family services over the next two years.

• Cream Health Care are proud to announce that we have opened a new branch in Gloucester.

  Tuesday, February 27, 2018

  Due to ongoing success, we are proud to announce that we have just opened our third branch in Gloucester.
  
  We are looking for experienced Support Workers to join our team to provide support for adult service users living in 3 unique homes specialising in Autism in Gloucester.

• New study looking into the options of Social Care funding

  Friday, February 16, 2018

  The Health Foundation and The King’s Fund have published today a working paper setting out interim findings from their project looking at the future funding options for Social Care in England.

• The Department of Health and Social Care is not doing enough to support a sustainable social care workforce.

  Thursday, February 8, 2018

  The Department of Health and Social Care is not doing enough to support a sustainable social care workforce. The number of people working in care is not meeting the country’s growing care demands and unmet care needs are increasing, according to today’s report by the National Audit Office (NAO).

• New employment rights for millions of workers

  Wednesday, February 7, 2018

  Millions of flexible workers will receive new employment rights under major government reforms as the UK government responds to the independent Taylor Review.

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  Alliance confirmed as delivery vehicle for Stoke-on-Trent Improvement Plan

  Friday, February 2, 2018

  The North Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Alliance has been confirmed as the delivery vehicle for the CQC Stoke-On-Trent Local System Review Improvement Plan drawn up by local health and care leaders in response to the recent Care Quality Commission Local System Review

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  Dignity In Action Day 2018

  Thursday, February 1, 2018

  Today, Thursday 1st February is Dignity In Action Day 2018.
  Dignity Action Day is an annual nationwide opportunity for health and social care workers, and members of the public to uphold people's rights to dignity and provide a truly memorable day for people who use care services.
  Cream Health Care believe that dignity is at the heart of care and during induction, we urge all of our new members of the team to become Dignity Champions. If you believe passionately that being treated with dignity is a basic human right, not an optional extra, then please become a Dignity Champion too.