Tag: Care Home
MedicX Healthfund, Maria Mallaband Care Group & Blueview In New-build Care Deal
MedicX Healthfund, theUKhealthcare property investment fund, has entered into an agreement with Maria Mallaband Care Group (MMCG) and property developer Blueview Properties (Blueview) for the development of Brunel House, a new £6.95m, 65-bed care home complex at Box, nearBath. The transaction has been brokered by specialist care adviser Christie +Co. At practical completion, which is [...]
DC Care Is Proud To Announce That This Is Their 10th Anniversary Year.
Established in 2002 the privately owned specialist care home agency has gained an excellent reputation for providing vendors with a professional, ethical and friendly service. During the last 10 years they have sold over 300 care businesses worth in excess of £440 million. Director, Anita Allen commented; “By the end of 2012, and given our [...]
Sunnyside House scoop Winner of Winners prize at Skills for Care’s Accolades
Sunnyside House have beaten off strong competition at the prestigious Skills for Care Accolades to scoop the Winner of Winners award. The Sunnyside team won the ‘Most effective new approach to service delivery’ and then picked up the Winner of Winners Award from guest presenter Sherrie Hewson at the awards ceremony in Manchester. The Skills [...]
New Arrivals Create A Flutter At Care Home
They’re no longer spring chickens themselves, but that hasn’t stopped residents at Auchtercrag House clucking with happiness after helping baby chicks into the world. Ten fluffy chicks were born in the care home in Ellon, just outside Aberdeen, after staff arranged for eggs and an incubator to be brought in as part of the ‘Living [...]
Oadby Care Home Worker Sentenced For Abusing Elderly
The conviction of a care home worker should act as a deterrent to others tempted to mistreat vulnerable people, Leicestershire Police have said. Malcolm Cramp, who worked at the Brockshill Woodlands Care Centre in Oadby, Leicestershire, was sentenced to 12 months at Leicester Crown Court on Friday (February 10). He was convicted of seven counts [...]
Castlemead Secures Planning For New Care Home
Castlemead Care, part of the Castlemead Housing and Care Group, has been granted planning approval for a state of the art 50,000 sq. ft. facility in Bradford on Avon, near Bath. The £9 million development will be built on the former Berryfield House hospital site, just off Bath Road, and will comprise [...]
Well-Scrubbed Grub Award For South Shields
A South Shields residential care home has won an award from South Tyneside Council for its excellent standards in food hygiene. Care UK’s Cheviot Court, in Horsley Hill Square, is home to 73 older people with a range of needs, including dementia, and on Monday (30th January 2012) manager Louise Damms was presented with [...]
MP Officially Opens New 60 Bed Care Facility
Saffron Walden MP Sir Alan Haselhurst was the guest of honour at the official opening of the area’s newest care facility. Performing the ceremonial plaque unveiling, Sir Alan said the 60 bed Moat House ‘exemplifies the sophisticated needs of those in later life’. Sir Alan returned to the site on the [...]
Care In Safehands
Lancashire business man Simon Rigby former chief executive of Leeds based Spice has acquired Blackpool based Safehands Group which currently employs 250 staff across the UK. Safehands was sold by the majority shareholders Stephanie and Gary Farrer, who established the business 14 years ago from a bedroom in their home. It [...]
Castlebeck Announces Action Plan
Castlebeck, the specialist provider of healthcare services, today announced details of an Action Plan to make fundamental changes and improvements to its care services across the UK. The Action Plan is Castlebeck’s response to the Panorama Programme into one of its facilities – Winterbourne View. The implementation of the Action Plan is already [...]
Home Care Services To Be Targeted By CQC
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is to carry out a themed inspection programme of home care services. The programme will help the regulator develop new ways to ensure these services meet the essential standards people have a right to expect and that people are being treated with dignity and respect. The [...]
The official opening of Anisha Grange
Anisha Grange care home in Billericay was recently officially opened by the town’s mayor, Cllr Mo Larkin, and the home’s first very first resident – Jim Saunders. Hundreds of wowed guests turned up to the unveiling of the home which has just received the accolade of “The most outstanding new care home [...]
New standards of care coming to Epsom
Epsom will soon be home to a state of the art private care community after the council gave the go-ahead to another Signature development. The spacious private apartments will be able to accommodate couples to suit all care needs; including a dedicated quality dementia care setting. The well designed environment and [...]
Martin Green Comments On Care Alliance Vision For Care
Martin Green, Chair, Care Providers Alliance, says: “Care providers are committed to ensuring quality care for service users. A cornerstone of this has to be proportionate and effective regulation. The Care Providers Alliance stands ready to work with CQC to deliver a regulatory regime that will support providers to build on [...]
CQC Investigation Identifies Serious Failings
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) today publishes its full investigation report into Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRT). The investigation into quality of care at the King George and Queen’s Hospital sites, which began in early July, identifies serious problems and places requirements on the Trust to deliver [...]
Treetops Care Home Sale By Christie & Co
Christie + Co has sold the Treetops Nursing Home in Oldham to an experienced local operator for an undisclosed sum. The nursing home had been built and established by Christie + Co’s clients in 1990 since which time they have established a high quality business with an excellent reputation and consistently strong levels of occupancy. [...]
Getting Registration Right
The English Community Care Association (ECCA), the leading representative charity for independent care providers, has responded to the DH consultation on proposed changes to regulations for CQC registration. Martin Green, Chief Executive of ECCA, says: “Getting registration right is the cornerstone of developing a quality health and social care system that [...]
Golden Years For Glebe Care
Glebe House, a delightful and successful care home in Surrey, has been sold by care sector specialist advisors Christie + Co. The entire share capital of Glebe Care Ltd (owners of Glebe House) was acquired by Surrey care provider Golden Years Ltd for an undisclosed sum off an asking price of £3.8 [...]
Care Quality Commission Launches Consultation On Fees
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is consulting about changes to the fees it proposes to charge providers of health and adult social care for 2012/13. These fees cover CQC’s work in registering providers and monitoring their compliance with government standards of safety and quality. The consultation sets out proposals to extend the [...]
Torquay Care Business Acquisition Assisted With Funding Secured By Christie Finance
Renaissance Care Services, a specialist care home in Torquay has new owners — thanks to funding secured by the specialist commercial finance broker Christie Finance. The freehold to the care home, which is registered for 17 and specialises in care for people with learning disabilities, has been bought by Karen Hardwick [...]
Christie & Co Complete Sale to Willowbank
Acting on behalf of private owners, Christie + Co has sold Deansgrove Residential Care Home in Knowsley, Merseyside to regional operator Willowbank Rest Home Ltd for an undisclosed sum. Registered to care for 29 service users the home was largely purpose-built having been extended from an existing property, providing care in 25 single and 2 [...]
Christie + Co Sells Turn-Key Ashcroft Hall To Bank House Care Homes
Another East Midlands turn-of-key care home has been sold by healthcare specialists Christie + Co. The newly-constructed Ashcroft Hall in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire has been acquired by local operator Kris Sooriah. The 53-bedroom home was built by LNT Construction, the quality turn-key care home solutions providers. LNT Construction also built Willowcroft [...]
Abbeycrest Care Centre Opens A New Chapter In A History Of Care
State of the art new care home opens in Berkshire Caring Homes is delighted to announce the opening of our newest home in the heart of the Chilterns. Abbeycrest Care Centre, in Sonning Common, will provide the very highest standards of residential, nursing and dementia care for up to 70 elderly people. [...]
Police Open Investigation Into 2 Deaths At Essex Care Home
3 elderly people from Partridge Care Centre in Harlow, Essex were admitted to hospital on the August 3rd. Since then Essex Police have confirmed that 2 have died and that an investigation in to their deaths and the home is taking place. A 36 year old woman has been arrested and bailed [...]
Castlebeck Responds To CQC Report
Castlebeck respond to findings by the Care Quality Commission regarding Croxton Lodge and Cedar Vale Care Homes; Following the CQC’s statement issued on 28th July confirming enforcement action at Croxton Lodge and Cedar Vale, the company received formal warning notices in relation to these two facilities. The company is already in the process [...]
Castlebeck Responds To Forced Closure
Castlebeck has today (August 17th 2011) confirmed that it is to close its Arden Vale facility in Meriden, Coventry. The Company has reached this decision following its own internal review and ongoing engagement with the Care Quality Commission (‘CQC’). The Company is now making alternative arrangements for the 19 people in [...]
CQC Announces Third Castlebeck Service To Close
Arden Vale in Meriden, Solihull, is to close ahead of the conclusion of legal action by the Care Quality Commission. Castlebeck Care (Teesdale) Limited has agreed to close the service, which provides care for adults with learning disabilities and mental health problems. The decision comes after CQC served a legal notice proposing to [...]
DC Care Complete On Another Sale
Another successful completion through DC Care DC Care is pleased to announce the recent sale of The Turrets acting on behalf of Mrs Arnold, who has operated the home for 17 years and who has decided to retire from the care sector. Located in the popular residential suburb of [...]
Newcastle Care Home Encourages Silver Surfers
SILVER surfers at a Newcastle residential care home are proving that age is no barrier when it comes to technology. Since a state-of-the-art, touch-screen computer was installed in the Whorlton Grange care home in Westerhope, its residents have eagerly been surfing the internet, emailing and even using Skype to speak to [...]
DC Care Sells North East Care Home
DC Care is delighted to announce the recent sale of a care home in South Shields, Tyne & Wear. The care home, registered for 30, is situated near the town centre and close to the coast, overlooking a delightful newly renovated park complete with Victorian bandstand. Built in the early 1900’s, [...]
Homes With Care To Resolve Long Term Care
Assisted Living – A Real Opportunity To Help Resolve Long Term Care Problems For The Elderly? The Care Home Sector The long term care sector is a very difficult one to be in. Even though, fundamentally, the demographics are in favour, the mechanics of the business is rife with [...]
Winterbourne View To Close
Following the ‘whistleblowing’ Panorama documentary, Castlebeck have announced the closure of the care home which featured in the programme. According to Castlebecks website; ”Winterbourne View, in Hambrook, Bristol, is a purpose-designed acute service, offering assessment, intervention and support for people with learning disabilities, complex needs and challenging behaviour. The hospital can also [...]
‘Seal Of Approval In Wigan’
Carers at Wigan’s newest care home were delighted to show off its specialist dementia facilities to members of the caring profession yesterday, to mark its opening in the local community. Montrose Hall of Sherwood Crescent is operated by Ideal Care Homes and provides a home for 40 people living with dementia. The [...]
Castlebeck Responds To Allegations On Panorama
We are deeply distressed by the completely unacceptable and appalling behaviour of a small number of our employees at one of our facilities. Such behaviour will not be tolerated, and we are very sorry. Castlebeck had not seen the Panorama footage depicting the apparent abuse of patients at Winterbourne View until the programme aired this [...]
How To Challenge Fees Set By Your Local Authority
On 21 December 2010, a landmark decision was handed down in the Administrative Court in Cardiff which ruled that Pembrokeshire County Council had unlawfully set the level of fees to be paid to care homes in 2010-11. As a result, the Council was forced to make its decision again and subsequently raised its [...]
Care Home Sold To New Operator
DC Care is delighted to announce the recent sale of The Willows Care Home in Bourne, Lincolnshire. The Care Home, registered for 31 is located close to the A15 and is 20 miles away from Grantham and Peterborough. The property was originally a farm house and has been extended over the years [...]
Green Fingered Residents in Chester
GREEN-fingered care home residents in Chester have their watering cans at the ready as they prepare for a community crops ‘sow and grow’ day later this month. Residents from Crawford’s Walk Nursing Home, Hoole, are delighted to be taking part in the Bupa care homes scheme which takes place on April 18 and promotes the [...]
Four Seasons Health Care-Further Tests
Initial investigations into suspected virus outbreak at Stonehaven centre prove inconclusive Further tests to establish if a suspected virus outbreak killed four pensioners at a north-east care home will not be complete for about six weeks.It is understood the results of investigations will not be available until next month after initial tests proved inconclusive. NHS [...]
