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The Carer: A new international standard, designed for use across the sector, aims to transform how care quality for older people is defined and measured.

The Carer: Following government approval, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published details of its updated approach to assessing how local authorities in England meet their duties under Part 1 of the Care Act 2014.

The Carer: The latest quarterly figures from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) provide a detailed snapshot of adult social care activity in England, highlighting sustained demand for services across community, residential and nursing settings.

The Guardian: People living with incontinence face shortage of sanitary pads as NHS limits supplies.

Government Press Release: NHS deploys specialist teams and expands urgent care services to tackle corridor care, cut waits and ease A&E pressure, targeting worst-affected trusts.

The Telegraph: One in 10 NHS operations cancelled with less than 24 hours notice, new research has found, suggesting that more than a third of the cancellations could have been avoided.

The Telegraph: How Britain’s care crisis is pushing middle-class families to the brink.

The Guardian: The great care home cash grab: how private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs.

BBC News: While the rollout of Covid jabs has been hailed a great success, the fourth report from the official inquiry into the pandemic also includes warnings about vaccine hesitancy, misinformation and support for those who have been harmed by the jabs.

The Guardian: Oxford scientists have developed a simple AI tool that can predict the risk of heart failure five years before it develops.

The Carer: A leading charity warns that serious shortfalls in dementia training are leaving social care staff unprepared, unsupported, and putting people with dementia at risk of inadequate care.

The Telegraph: Alzheimer’s “wonder drugs” do not work, scientists have found in a study that overturns decades of research into the disease.

The Carer: A higher-quality plant-based diet may help reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, according to new research.

The Carer: New research shows that activating your brain whilst sitting helps to reduce dementia.

The Guardian: The number of people in the UK being diagnosed with cancer has reached a record high, with one person diagnosed every 80 seconds, a report reveals.

The Telegraph: The NHS is failing to catch cancers any earlier than it did a decade ago, according to a report.

The Telegraph: Cancer patients are being left without vital drugs as medicine prices rise because of the Iran war.