Swansea University academics are calling for policy makers, regulators and healthcare professionals to adopt a structured medicine monitoring system, after research showed a positive impact on the care of people living in care homes and taking mental health medicines.

A petition calling on the government to introduce free personal care for older people, signed by more than 13,000 people in just over two weeks, has been presented to the Prime Minister.

A group of young adults have spent time shadowing staff at a West London care home as part of a programme with youth charity The Prince’s Trust.

The adult social care sector is being urged by the Minister for Care to back the next phase of a recruitment campaign launched by the Department of Health and Social Care. 

Representatives from Encore Care Homes recently attended a summer garden party at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital to mark the opening of a dementia-friendly summerhouse which they donated to the Bournemouth Hospital Charity.