Worked up? Speak up.
CQC’s Professor Steve Field asks the public to speak up about care The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care services in England. We make sure heal ...
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Age of role reversal
Forty-nine is the age at which most Brits find the ‘roles of care’ are reversed and they start looking after their parents, according to new research. From helping out with the shopping to doing odd j ...
Veteran carer still cycles door to door to look after patients
A “role model” carer who has only had two weeks off in 50 years has no plans to retire – despite being 84. Widowed Eileen Haysham has been a care and support worker since 1965 and tr ...
Was it Coercion? A warning to relatives, social services and would-be carers
‘She has given them the house’, announced the solicitor and power of attorney for my cousin Anne. (Fortunately not her residence, but a neighbouring property that she had let to them). “They were her ...