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HMJ: Health visitors highlight unsafe and unmanageable caseloads

By Laura Sharman | 08 December 2021

More than four in 10 health visitors have warned in a new survey they are unable to safeguard vul...

HMJ: Council chosen to pilot anti-obesity app

By Laura Sharman | 08 December 2021

A new app that rewards people for healthy behaviour will be piloted by Wolverhampton City Council.

HMJ: 'Systemic' issues holding back digital innovation

By Laura Sharman | 08 December 2021

A lack of targeted funding and national backing are holding back the digital transformation of co...

HMJ: Domestic abuse to be treated as seriously as knife crime

By Laura Sharman | 08 December 2021

A change to the Serious Violence Duty will ensure a public health approach is taken to tackling d...

HMJ: Care home deaths up

By Laura Sharman | 08 December 2021

The number of deaths of care home residents in 2020 increased by 18.5% in England compared to 201...

HMJ: People report 'poor' experience of using mental health services

By Laura Sharman | 08 December 2021

People’s experience of mental health care is at their lowest point in eight years, a new survey h...

HMJ: Home care services facing 'invisible crisis'

By Laura Sharman | 08 December 2021

A think tank has warned that as many as 110,000 people could lose out on home care by April 2022 ...

'Crumbling' fostering system failing vulnerable children

By Laura Sharman | 06 December 2021

Urgent action is needed to fix the 'crumbling and failing' fostering system, a charity has warned.

Social care services 'rapidly deteriorating,' directors warn

By Laura Sharman | 29 November 2021

Social care services are failing to help hundreds of thousands of older and disabled people, a ne...

Scottish councils need extra £1bn to 'survive'

By Laura Sharman | 16 November 2021

Councils in Scotland need more than an extra £1bn a year just to survive, a new briefing has warned.