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• Archbishop calls for society wide shift in support for unpaid carers

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  The Archbishop was responding during Carers Week to the report‘No Choice but to Care’

• Adult social care workers urged to share Covid stories

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  This will help the inquiry to identify areas for improvement when it begins the public hearings on the care sector in the summer of 2025

• Young Carers missing out on carer's allowance

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  Carers Trust estimates nearly 20,000 young adult carers are being forced to choose between education and financial support

• 20% increase in those at risk from type 2 diabetes

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  The NHS is investing in a number of initiatives including the Diabetes Prevention Programme which has helped thousands of people stave off a type 2 diagnosis

• Black and ethnic minority people are underrepresented in virtual patient cohorts.

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  Targeted research needed to understand the barriers to access.

• NHS dental treatment has still not returned to pre-pandemic levels

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  The British Dental Association (BDA) has said the next government need to take on board the huge knock-on effects the crisis in dentistry is having across the health service.

• London councils object to relocation of specialist cancer service

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  Richmond Council has voted to request a review by NHS England

• West Lothian Council workers could trigger a summer of strike action

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  GMB Scotland said its members were being balloted on industrial action - with the first possible strike day falling on July 3. 

• Care UK in Portsmouth to remember the hundreds of thousands of those who took part in D-Day

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  Along with the three forces’ charities and the Merchant Navy Association, more than 100 care homes will take part in the nationwide tribute. 

• NHS and social care leaders could save £1 billion annually by adopting an AI-led home healthcare model

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  By reducing hospitalisations for older adults by 52-70%, this approach frees up over 1,210 hospital bed days monthly

• Number of people with pre diabetes has risen by 11% in Norther Ireland.

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  These new figures show nearly 200,000 people are living with, or at risk of diabetes.

• Software to reduce hospital waiting times will be rolled out across Scotland over the next year

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  The national theatre scheduling tool improved operating room efficiency by up to 25%

• Martha’s rule is going to be rolled out in 143 hospitals in England

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  This has been called one of the most important changes to patient care in years,

• Carers in North Lanarkshire receive support payments

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  Councillors have approved a new three-year strategy, with the report finding local carers receive support that is consistently better than the national average.

• No money for carers to get free public transport in Suffolk

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  The council's financial position is deemed too fragile to go ahead, because the permits would amount to an "unsustainable subsidy".

• Carer's Allowance overpayments affecting five thousand people in Northern Ireland

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  9 million pounds of overpayments have been referred to the Department for Communities Debt Management branch

• Information about insect bites and stings surges ahead of this bank holiday weekend

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  One person every 22 seconds searched for information on recognising and treating bites and stings

• Skinny jabs like Ozempic are being used as a cop-out

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  Professor says that while new drugs worked for the majority of people, preventing obesity in the first place was still the best plan