CloserStill Media, organisers of the award-winning event series Health Plus Care are pleased to announce Health Plus Care Online, taking place on the 24th & 25th February 2021.

Both residential and domiciliary care have seen a huge demand for using technology in 2020. The Care Innovation Village will be the place to showcase new technology to the sector.

ORCHA are proud to share the news that they are supporting Nordic Innovation’s work to launch a new Nordic Digital Health & Medication Platform.

Muhammed Neeliyath, Residential Manager, Edensor Care Centre, talks about the pleasure the team experience when they see residents developing friendships and supporting each other.

How one social care provider is using iPads to help the elderly better manage their health, highlight the top 5 apps for winter pressures and...

Healthcare and technology businesses across the UK have been pivotal in supporting national efforts to tackle the virus and support NHS staff and patients. 

3065 delegates, 55 education sessions, 111 leading industry speakers, 37 specialist exhibitors!

The PRSB has produced new national standards for integrating key health and social care information, which will ensure services can work together better to provide more personalised care.

Matt Hancock has announced a new drive to motivate frontline health and care staff by reducing unnecessary bureaucracy and locking in positive changes seen during the pandemic.

At Age UK Lancashire we are constantly reviewing new technologies throughout our entire care delivery; the pandemic lockdown opened the door to both service redesign and participants’ willingness to include new digital solutions within the varied aspects of their care.

How can we bridge the gap between health and technology companies and the NHS? Professor Terry Young and Jacqueline Mallender ask what barriers need to be overcome to facilitHow can we bridge the gap between health and technology companies and the NHS? Professor Terry Young and Jacqueline Mallender ask what barriers need to be overcome to facilitate transformation in healthcare.ate transformation in healthcare.

Immunisations and vaccinations are the most effective public health interventions in the world, after clean water. Not only do they promote good health and reduce preventable morbidity and mortality, they also reduce the monumental pressures placed upon national health services.

The Care Show and OT Show will be running the UK's first Virtual Care Festival on the 25th - 26th November 2020.  The festival is be a great opportunity to gain CPD through lectures and seminars presented by our world-renowned industry speakers. Attendees will also be able to network with colleagues, and meet their favourite suppliers, all on one online platform.

HC One’s Kesteven Grange care home have been gifted a lovely ‘hamper for hero’s’ by the local Co-op store.

HC One’s Averill House care home have been creating displays and finding out information to learn and celebrate Black History Month.

Eira Evans, a Resident at HC One’s St Martins care home, has celebrated her huge 100th birthday today

Numan, the online health clinic for men, has completed a £10M Series A funding round, to continue building the future of health in collaboration with its customers.

Leva Clinic, a group of expert healthcare professionals within the NHS, will be launching the UK’s first Care Quality Commission (CQC) registered online clinic.

Speaking at the Public Policy Projects Health and Social Care Hub Fringe at Conservative Party Conference, Health and Care Secretary Matt Hancock sought to reassure the public that he will only allow a vaccine to be approved for use once it is safe. Evidencing the pause of a high-profile clinical trial to allow due safety checks after a participant fell ill, the key message from the Secretary of State was that the vaccine is “the cavalry coming” but that it will only be available when completely safe.

“Expect a more engaged, active Britain on the world stage. ” This was the key message of Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to the diplomatic community at a Public Policy Projects International Fringe Hub at Conservative Party Conference today in conjunction with Diplomat magazine.

Long before COVID-19, the Command Centre (designed to optimize many aspects of day-to-day patient care and help create better patient experiences, outcomes, and lower costs) has been making sense of vast amounts of data for hospitals and healthcare systems worldwide. 

Trusts and frontline staff are working flat out to restore those services which were necessarily interrupted to cope with the first peak of the pandemic. NHS Providers Restoring services: NHS activity tracker highlights detailed examples of the innovations trusts and their staff developing to improve capacity, and respond to unmet demand despite the constraints created by COVID-19, and the need to prepare for additional winter pressures.

Care Assistant Lynn Davies of HC One’s Richmond House Care Home, has been recognised by fellow staff for going above and beyond her usual duties during the pandemic. 

Health Plus Care in partnership with BD in mid-September co-produced a series of webinars exploring diagnostics and blood culture: Take, test and treat - The critical future in diagnostics and blood culture

A kind Resident at HC-One’s St Margaret care home in Durham recently assisted Colleagues in preparing the homes garden in time for HC-One’s gardening competition. St Margaret Resident, Olga Chester loves gardening, so after hearing that the HC-One gardening competition was soon approaching, Olga was keen to help out and improve the homes chances of winning.

The holy grail of research and development in life sciences is integrating life changing treatments into clinical use at pace. 

Dr Ron Daniels, founder and Chief Executive of the UK Sepsis Trust, has long been on a mission to improve sepsis outcomes. How has the pandemic affected this struggle?

Miele Professional launched its new Little Giants range on Thursday 16th July.

Tobi is joined by York Woodford-Smith and Adam James to discuss how care homes can use video and local media to reduce the negative publicity they've been receiving over the past couple of months.

In episode #63 of The Care Home Show, Simon welcomes his guest John Bell. John is an award-winning care home architect and the Director of ADG Architects.

Planning a carer’s rota can sometimes be challenging, especially when you’re not sure of the time required to travel from one call to the next. Sometimes the time allocated is not enough, which has im ...

BD and Health Plus Care to deliver five, free webinars on blood cultures, AMR and Sepsis this September. For all clinicians and professionals with an interest in blood cultures policy and practice.

On July 30th July Matt Hancock set out his post covid vision for health and care in a wide-ranging speech with key themes including staffing, emergency care, digital, system working and social care.

With recent media attention on the area of black lives, the question is, is this an area for Social Care to consider?

The Care Summer Series Announced - a Free Virtual Event for the Care Sector this August CloserStill Media Reports: The Care Summer Series will be two days of educational webinars, led by experts in th ...

Social media is full of women (and maybe men) worrying about their grey roots showing through or not being as blonde as usual; and how to deal with a Brazilian. These are surely first world problems.

The question of when the “long-awaited” social care green paper will be released has vanished from the lips of those desperate to read its contents. For those who were working on it, it is mothballed. ...

So you want to buy ads online for your care business, but should you start with Google or Facebook?🤔 Well, the answer varies by industry, so make sure you watch this week's #TeaWithTobi☕️ for a #care ...

Let's be honest, the NHS has a chequered history on digital transformation. With highly variable levels of digital maturity within the sector there have been high profile failures as well as some grea ...

Key thought leaders explore the future of NHS Technology – Covid-19 and beyond Recently Alan Mak MP for the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Fourth Industrial Revolution was joined by Matt Hancock ...

In episode #59 of The Care Home Show, Simon welcomes his guest David McGuire, CEO of the Diagrama Foundation. David has recently shared his experiences of the pandemic through an article printed in th ...

NHS teams are being given access to cutting-edge predictive technology to help them save lives by forecasting coronavirus hospitalisations. As the Government eases lockdown, the new Joint Biosecurity ...

There’s been a lot of talk about ‘gaslighting’ in modern politics.

  Patient Safety Learning is an independent charity and voice for improving patient safety. Our aim is to reduce harm to patients and staff.
 

The folks at NHS Digital have been exceptionally busy over the past 10 weeks. Here Sarah Wilkinson, CEO of NHS Digital, discusses the progress that has been made.  

Saffron Cordery warns that while a public enquiry is needed into the cause of excess deaths, it must not turn into a damaging, divisive and misleading blame game

The global Covid-19 pandemic is a health emergency unlike any we have known in living memory. But it is also a mental health emergency, with significant immediate and long-lasting effects.

Over £116 million has now been donated to the  NHS Charities Together Covid-19 Appeal. Healthcare workers need support and the public have responded.

As Julie Wood, CEO of NHS Clinical Commissioners, prepares to step down from the role after seven years, she shares her thoughts on the speed of change in the NHS over the last few months.

Dr Nikki Kanani MBE, Medical Director of Primary Care for NHS England and NHS Improvement, has shared a painful account of her childhood experience of racial abuse.

CareLineLive are committed to supporting the home care sector during this challenging time and are helping businesses operate as effectively as possible. That’s why, they are offering new customers th ...

The Access Group Health and Social Care provides leading care management software to over 8,000 care providers. Our software helps you improve efficiency, giving you the freedom to focus on delivering ...

 

We understand the difficulties that COVID-19 is putting on all areas of the healthcare sector and with it, the ever increasing need to quickly mobilise your temporary workforce.

An independent document sharing platform has been launched by CCube Solutions to support providers and health professionals access information during the COVID-19 crisis.

Chris Hopson, Chief Executive of NHS Providers, has warned thousands of top priority NHS staff simply aren’t being tested for COVID-19, and results are taking too long to return.

When Sophy Robson first began a ‘secret life’ moonlighting as a care worker she felt her daytime colleagues in the world of fashion and beauty wouldn’t understand. 

Health Education England has had to adapt and refocus rapidly to concentrate fully on getting health and care staff to where the country needs them most. 

Four new Integrated Care Systems were announced this week as plans emerged for a fundamental shift in the way health and care is delivered in London as it remains under constant threat of COVID-19. 

The Covid crisis has taught us that when the NHS treats social care as if it is in some way outside of the system, very bad consequences will ensue. 

Newly appointed NHS Property Services Chief Executive, Martin Steele, is proud to lead a team of 5,000 frontline workers - who are keeping the NHS estates up and running during the pandemic.