Training in creative health practice
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Carers UK has launched a new campaign entitled ‘This Counts as Care’ to help those who don’t currently identify as an unpaid carer to see themselves in this way. Carers UK say: “There are currently 5.7 million unpaid carers in the UK caring for an ill, elderly or disabled relative or friend long-term, with 4.7%…
Highlighting key achievements in 2021-22, NAPA’s new Annual Impact Report shows that membership grew as the activities charity focused on a digital approach during the pandemic. The report details how this digital approach enabled 3,200 members – up 6% on the previous year – to introduce new ways of working, gain access to practice development…
As concerns grow about high vacancy rates in health and social care, the government has drawn up plans to hire more overseas workers before demand peaks in the winter. According to a report in the Times newspaper, health secretary Steve Barclay has instructed civil servants to significantly boost recruitment from overseas, including India and the…
The Centre for Social Justice has published a report entitled: ‘Creating a Britain that Works and Cares’ which looks at how to support family carers in employment. The report draws on statistics from a national survey of unpaid working-age (16-64 year old) carers that was conducted in November 2023 by The Centre for Social Justice…
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved donanemab, a drug for Alzheimer’s disease, for people in the US with confirmed amyloid positivity and a diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or early-stage Alzheimer’s disease. Donanemab is an antibody-based treatment intended to remove amyloid. It is given as an infusion into a person’s arm…
Baroness Casey, who chairs the Casey Commission into Adult Social Care in England (which we have reported on here https://journalofdementiacare.co.uk/?s=Casey+Commission), has given a speech to the Nuffield Trust Summit 2026 where she called on the government to take urgent action to reform dementia care. The speech, which set out Baroness Casey’s early assessment of the…