Articles by Laura Sharman
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.
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