When you are faced with the difficult decision of having to find a nursing or personal care service, not only do you want to find the best solution with a local care provider, but you want the reassurance that comes with being able to read honest reviews from existing customers.

That's where www.homecare.co.uk comes in. They list the vast majority of home care providers across the country, and allow customers to leave online reviews. Absolute Healthcare would like to expand our existing reviews online and need your help!...

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• 26 November 2015

The Chancellor revealed his eagerly awaited 2015 spending review yesterday, and having already pledged extra money for frontline NHS services earlier in the week, it appears that NHS funding is to be largely protected.

By contrast, the Social Care sector, which has a separate budget from the NHS and a steadily increasing funding crisis, was not so lucky.

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• 26 November 2015

Christmas is just around the corner, and for many care workers it will have been a long and tiring year!

All the more important then, that we schedule some 'me' time to pamper ourselves and enjoy some massage therapy or beauty treatments and give our bodies and minds a boost. Why not enter our Christmas Competition?!

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• 24 November 2015

An estimated 850,000 people in the UK are living with Dementia, and around 670,000 are acting as their primary carers.

These figures are set to rise dramatically over the coming years as our population ages and the Alzheimer’s Society suggest the number of people with Dementia will rise to over a million by 2021.

In an industry where the work is often challenging, and there is a need to understand vulnerable people and their conditions, there is a serious lack of consistent training.

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• 19 November 2015