The RCN has responded to the announcement that more than 27,000 health care workers who provide publicly funded care in England are set to receive 2 one-off payments worth between £1,655 and £3,789. We’ve acknowledged this progress as “a huge leap forward” but say waiting so long to receive the payments has added “insult to injury” to hardworking nursing staff.
Last year, NHS staff on Agenda for Change contracts received 2 one-off payments in addition to a 5% pay uplift. But the government did not make funding available for the one-off payments for staff working on dynamic Agenda for Change…
Tameco Brewster, Home Care Specialist for Sharecare, has been named a 2023 Frontline Honors honoree by Home Health Care News.
To become a Frontline Honoree, an individual is nominated by their peers. The candidate must be a dedicated, high-performing frontline worker who delivers exceptional experiences and outcomes; a passionate worker who knows how to put their vision into action for the good of older adults and aging industry professionals; and an advocate for older adults, their industry, and their peers.
Home Health Care News caught up with Brewster to discuss their time in the home health care industry.
HHCN: What…
The Department of Veterans Affairs has announced that 745 Wyoming veterans joined the VA health care system in the last year, outpacing the national average.
Enrollment in Wyoming was 35.44% more than the system enrolled the previous year. Nationally, VA enrolled 401,006 veterans in VA health care over the past 365 days – 30% more than the previous year.
This is the most yearly enrollees in at least five years at VA, and nearly a 50% increase over pandemic-level enrollment in 2020, according to the department.
This historic enrollment has been made possible by the PACT Act, which has allowed…
Like Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN), Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ: WBA) is going for its piece of the healthcare pie. With its fiscal second quarter report, it topped estimates, but lowered the higher end of its full-year adjusted earnings guidance in response to a challenging macroeconomy. The new CEO, Tim Wentworth, continues to navigate the company out of a rough spot by slashing costs and solidifying the team, but the company’s healthcare transformation took its toll on leadership the bottom line.
Fiscal second quarter highlights
For the quarter ended on February 29th, Walgreens recorded sales grew about 6.3% to $37.05 billion,…
Workers down to €400 per night
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Providing workers essential homecare services to vulnerable people throughout counties Louth and Meath say they are short hundreds of euros per month following a contract change by their employer, Danu Home Care.
Danu Home Care traded as Ann’s Home Care Ireland until recently and retains the same corporate structure.
A spokesperson for the workers said they had been on seven 12-hour shifts every night and were moved to 30 hour per week contracts.
This means that they have lost 24 hours’ pay ever two weeks while doing the same number of calls. They…
March 6, 2024 – The potential financial collapse of Steward Health Care, which owns nine hospitals in Massachusetts, is a crisis—but it could also provide an opportunity, according to health policy expert John McDonough, to make the state’s overall health care system “ stronger, better, more patient-centered and community-centered.”
Steward’s financial problems have led to a lack of adequate staffing and supplies in some of its facilities in recent months, in some cases endangering patients, according to media reports. In addition, there are fears that some of the Steward hospitals will close, leaving communities without crucial health care services and…
A year-old Pentagon policy of paying for travel for service members who need reproductive health care that is not offered by the military — including abortions — was used 12 times from June through December, the Pentagon confirmed Tuesday.
Paying for transportation, lodging and meals for those 12 round trips from a service member’s home station to the location of their health care cost the department $44,791, Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh said during a public briefing to reporters. It was unclear how many of those trips involved abortion services, the area of the policy that has generated the most controversy.…
Dr. Stephen Major says he doesn’t see anything in the provincial budget that will address the urgent problems facing Newfoundland and Labrador’s health-care system, and says he’s worried the public is getting too comfortable with a failing system.
Major, a family and emergency room doctor in St. John’s, is the incoming president of the Newfoundland and Labrador Medical Association.
While he was encouraged to see more spending in some areas, Major said he was disappointed by a lack of urgency in the province’s $4-billion health-care plan for this fiscal year.
“The biggest issue I see is no real attempt to…