It's really striking some of the changes in the NHS workforce in recent years. Overall staffing growth has slowed down a lot. Doctor and nurse numbers still rising, but other groups are seeing slow downs or even falls
Max Warner
Margaret Butterworth Care Home Forum
Wed 1 July 2026 14:00 to 16:00 online
👉Tamara Backhouse: OPTIMISED DEMCARE training intervention
👉Cat Forward: OPINIONS (Optimising foot care interventions for older adults in care homes)
All welcome! #mbchf
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Thanks to Richard Lowrie (University of Edinburgh) for speaking at the Homelessness series this morning. 130 people attended. Slides: 👇
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NEW
‘Care Is More than Just Care’ – Conceptualising Elements of Promising Practices to Support Ancillary Workers in Care Homes
Kritika Samsi Olivia Luijnenburg Caroline Norrie Stephen Martineau Ian Kessler Jill Manthorpe
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'A focus on dementia'
As part of #DementiaActionWeek Unit researchers Olivia Luijnenburg, Fauzia Knight and Kritika Samsi highlight some of our ongoing work in dementia care research in different settings and topic areas 👇
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The ‘unassuming’ social worker who helped shape the profession
Event set to mark the life and work of Keith Bilton, one of BASW’s founding members
Obituary - Professional Social Work #swhn
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A new location for the Day Centres Resources Hub: day-centre-resouces-hub.org.uk Has this & our other day centres work been useful for you? (see highlights www.kcl.ac/uk/research/... & kclpure.ac.uk/portal/en/pe...). How? Please let me know [email protected]
The Mental Health Act Code of Practice: a product of evolution, not revolution
18 June 2026 14:00 to 16:00 hybrid
#swhn
Sarah Vicary - Kev Stone - Tim Spencer-Lane
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This trend is in line with the last few years: there are now 20% more doctors in NHS trusts than in 2022, but just 4% more support staff and 9% more estates, admin and management staff.
Is this a deliberate policy choice? Or cash-strapped trusts cutting back on recruitment?
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Supreme Court overrules Cheshire West
In A Reference by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland of a devolution issue under paragraph 34 of Schedule 10 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998…...
Optimising foot care interventions. OPTIMISED DEMCARE training.
AGNI – resources page, podcast and shedinar video
I have started a resources page on the AGNI case, and will start to populate it as more guidance and the like emerges. The page includes links to a shedinar video that I have recorded about deprivation of liberty after the case, and also a podcast…
As part of Dementia Action Week we highlight ongoing research at the Unit
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Event set to mark the life and work of Keith Bilton, one of BASW’s founding members
In A Reference by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland of a devolution issue under paragraph 34 of Schedule 10 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998 UKSC 16, a seven member Panel of the Supreme Court has unanimously overruled the 2014 majority decision in Cheshire West. The judgment is long and detailed. A summary by the Supreme Court can be found…
I have started a resources page on the AGNI case, and will start to populate it as more guidance and the like emerges. The page includes links to a shedinar video that I have recorded about deprivation of liberty after the case, and also a podcast recorded with Community Care, which talks more broadly about the case.
The Day Centre Resources Hub has moved
The practical tool for day centres and their professional stakeholders has a new website 👇
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Alex Ruck Keene
Alex Ruck Keene
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The practical tool for day centres and their professional stakeholders has a new website
