Tag: Care Industry News
You Can Stay-Dementia Patients Win the Day
Stoke-on-Trent City Council has agreed to allow dementia patients stay in the home they have become used to. In an effort to save £24m the council had planned to close 2 care homes and relocate those residents to Marrow House which currently specialises in dementia care. This move would then have forced those dementia sufferers [...]
Managing The Financial Affairs Of Vulnerable Adults-Your Turn To Take Part Or Learn
Professional Deputies are presenting a WebiShare (in collaboration with Zeida Lane) on February 20th at 14:00, around the subject of ‘Managing the financial affairs of vulnerable adults’. WebiShare is an East Sussex County Council Commissioning Grant funded project which is part of Zeida Lane’s larger Person Centred Approaches Project. WebiShare is [...]
MHA Complete Refurb’ Of Scottish Care Village
Care Consultants Ltd has completed a major refurbishment of 2 of MHA’s care homes on the prestigious Lesmahagow Care Village site, Nr Glasgow. The work was sensitively undertaken in two operational homes. Working with experienced designers and contractors CCL were able to ensure that the homes stayed operational throughout the 7 month programme. [...]
Dignity Action Day-What are you doing?
Dignity in care is taking centre stage at Care UK this week as teams across the country run a series of events to celebrate Dignity Action Day (1St February). Teams working in Care UK homes and health services have come up with creative and innovative ideas to show that dignity is [...]
Dignity Champions In Bradford!
Nurses and carers at Care UK’s Mill Lodge nursing home are celebrating national Dignity in Action Day on Wednesday 1st February by signing up to become official dignity champions, while residents celebrate the day with a purple-themed party. Created by the Social Care Institute for Excellence, dignity champions believe passionately that being [...]
Wishes Come True At Hyde Nursing Home
Residents young and old at Care UK’s Riverside nursing home will be making special wishes as part of Dignity Action Day and staff will be trying to make as many of them as possible come true on Wednesday 1st February. Beverley Taylor, who manages the home in Manchester Road, Hyde, said: “People [...]
New Charity Division for Age UK
Age UK has announced the creation of a new division which brings together its Influencing and Services work. The move is designed to respond to an external environment in which the need to integrate research, policy creation and service delivery is needed now more than ever – for example in the current debate [...]
Alzheimer’s Society Comment On Crisis Report
Today (Monday, 30 January), Age UK launches its Care in Crisis report which shows that spending on social care for older people in England has fallen by half a billion pounds since 2010. Age UK’s projected figures show that the government ought to be spending £7.8 billion this year in order [...]
Michelle Leads The Way In Company Expansion
At-home care provider Home Instead Senior Care in Grantham, is thrilled to welcome Michelle Wells to lead its team of caregivers as part of the company’s continued expansion. Michelle Wells has worked in the care sector for over 20 years. Starting out as a caregiver before working for the Ambulance Service, care [...]
Four Seasons Under Government Scrutiny
In a written statement to government Paul Burstow Minister of State-Care services has confirmed that Four Seasons have met with senior officials from his department twice in the last 12 months to explain the company’s financial position and his department will continue to keep in close touch with the company. During these [...]
Care Quality Commission Response To The National Audit Office Report
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) welcomes the report from the National Audit Office and its helpful recommendations. We note that the value for money judgement is based predominantly on CQC’s early task of registering health and social care providers. The head of the National Audit Office, Amyas Morse, has acknowledged the difficulties [...]
Hadrian Healthcare Continue To Grow
Ridley Park care home, built on the site of the former Plessey Road School, was officially opened by MP Ronnie Campbell and mayor of Blyth Robert Parker on Friday (11 November). Built by Hadrian Healthcare Group, it includes a residents’ bar, hair salon, traditional-style newspaper and sweet shop, a stylish bistro and library. [...]
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 [...]
MP returning to officially open the Moat House
Fourteen months after unveiling the foundation stone, local MP Sir Alan Haselhurst is returning to perform the official opening of the area’s newest care home. The first residents have already moved into the Moat House, on the fringes of Great Dunmow and will be on hand to welcome Sir Alan to [...]
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 [...]
KENTFORD MANOR CELEBRATES A GRAND EVENT
Kentford Manor, the new residential, nursing and memory care home in Newmarket held its Grand Opening last week. Situated in the village of Kennett, the purpose-built Care Home offers outstanding facilities that sit perfectly hand in hand with its newly recruited, professional and dedicated care team. Led by manager, Wendy Harvey, [...]
Baroness Greengross raises Hydration question in House of Lords
November 2011 On the 7th November Baroness Greengross tabled a question in the House of Lords to ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have plans to implement a hydration policy in hospitals and care homes. The responses reflected the view that the implementation of policies would not have the desired effect, would [...]
South London care development sold for Fairview New Homes by Christie + Co
A 58-bed care home development with planning consent in South London has been sold by Christie + Co on behalf of Fairview New Homes. Building work is due to begin immediately on the care home acquired by an experienced London care operator off an asking price of £1.5m. The state of the [...]
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 [...]
Henley-on-Thames Matron shortlisted for Caring Times National Care Award!
Wendy Eltze has reached the last stage of the Care Manager category of the National Care Awards. These awards which are recognised throughout the UK are organised by Caring Times. “We were so pleased for Wendy when we heard she’d reached the shortlist for the Care Manager award” said Paul [...]
Malnutrition the Silent Killer
Malnutrition the Silent Killer The definition of malnutrition is – a state of nutrition in which a deficiency, excess, imbalance of energy, protein and other nutrients causes measurable adverse effects on tissue, body form (body shape, size and composition)and clinical outcomes (ENHA/BAPEN 2006). Current Figures • £13.6 [...]
ECCA welcomes High Court ruling on care home fees
The English Community Care Association (ECCA), the leading representative charity for independent care providers, has welcomed the High Court’s ruling that Sefton Council acted unlawfully when making its decision to freeze care home fees for the second year running. Martin Green, Chief Executive of ECCA, says: “We are pleased [...]
Local Authority Agrees To Make A Fresh Decision On Care Home Fees
Staffordshire County Council was faced with a legal challenge at the High Court by the Fairer Fee Forum (FFF) who were representing 200 care providers within the local authority’s jurisdiction. However, after a dramatic turn of events, Staffordshire County Council agreed with the FFF to carry out a fresh review of [...]
200 Excess Deaths This Winter
In an attempt to lower the number of unnecessary deaths this winter, Age UK is launching a ground-breaking initiative with the Met Office and the Department of Health. The Met Office will give Age UK advance warnings when it predicts a cold spell so that vulnerable older people can be pre-warned and [...]
Shaping Our Age
New research released from WRVS, the UK’s largest charity delivering preventative care for older people, shows that services older people believe are crucial to their wellbeing are suffering as a result of government cuts across the country placing older people’s health at risk and putting an overstretched NHS under even greater pressure. [...]
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 [...]
Care Souths Dedication to End Of Life Gets Them Their Just Reward
A Care South Palliative Care Team based in Crewkerne, Somerset, has won the Dedication to End of Life Care award in the Care Focus annual awards. The award, which was presented at a gala event in Taunton, was sponsored by St Margaret’s Hospice which provides support to patients in the hospice and [...]
Simon Bird Joins Care South
Care South is pleased to announce that chartered surveyor Simon Bird has joined the Senior Management Team as Property and Business Development Director. Care South is a registered charity and leading provider of high quality, innovative care (including specialist dementia care) with 20 residential and nursing care homes and close care available [...]
Whose fault is it?
CQC calls for action to improve care for older people CQC today publishes a report into the standards of care that elderly people receive in hospital – and calls for a system-wide response to combat the failings identified. This report summarises the findings of 100 unannounced inspections of NHS acute [...]
Jewish Care Offers Support By The Sea
A dynamic group of Bournemouth-based volunteers has been offering support to their local Jewish community. The tight-knit team includes Pat Cravitz, Josie Lipsitz, Marcia Goodman and Liz Harris has been helping people access local social services, offering advice regarding obtaining funding for services as well as giving emotional support to vulnerable members [...]
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 [...]
Care In Sheffield Secured With SheffCare
RESIDENTS and staff at two Sheffield residential homes have had their futures assured after the properties were bought by leading city service provider SheffCare. The two 42 bedroom properties at Grange Crescent in Sharrow and Midhurst Road in Foxhill, were previously owned by South Yorkshire Housing Association. But when vital local authority funding came to [...]
CQC Excellence Award On Hold
At the National Care Association’s Annual Conference the Care Quality Commission chair Dame Jo Williams said that she saw no prospect of the Excellence Award scheme going ahead after it had received a ‘universal thumbs down’ by provider bodies and organisations such as the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services during [...]
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 [...]
Adding the X to Extra Care
A recent study by The International Longevity Centre examines the characteristics of Extra Care and whether this specialist retirement housing can be considered a “home for life”. The international Longevity Centre-UK is the leading think tank on longevity and demographic change. They develop ideas, undertake research and create a forum [...]
Excellent News Maria Mallaband Group Save 2250 Care Jobs
Care Operator Maria Mallaband Care Group announced they have taken over the running of 35 Southern Cross Care Homes saving the jobs of over 2,250 jobs and making the future of residents secure. Excellent news for the sector- Is your company doing the same? Email me jackiebrook@careindustrynews.co.uk
CQC’s Responds To The Health Select Committee Report
The Committee’s report highlights the major challenges CQC has faced in merging three existing regulators, setting up a new regulatory model, and registering more than 39,000 provider locations – including previously unregulated sectors – against aggressive Parliamentary deadlines and with a 30% budget reduction . We know registration has been a difficult [...]
Heathcotes Receive Excellent Results!
The Heathcotes Group is a provider of specialist residential care for adults with learning disabilities, complex needs and associated challenging behaviours. The Group currently operates 13 services across the country, with ambitious growth plans in place that will see that number increase to 20 by the end of 2011. The [...]
National Care Association Invite Dame Jo Williams To Speak At Conference
Dame Jo Williams CBE, Chair of the Care Quality Commission, will be the keynote speaker at the National Care Association’s annual conference this September. National Care Association Chief Executive, Sheila Scott OBE says that “…with concern about the CQC so high on the care sector’s agenda we are eagerly anticipating what [...]
Private Equity Financing – A Cause For Celebration Or Concern?
Until recently, domiciliary care wasn’t a topic to grace the front pages of the broadsheets, let alone the tabloids. But recent events have brought it out of the shadows and it seems everyone is talking about it. The interest has been sparked by a series of unrelated – and, [...]
Enara Purchase Colvin and Longacre Domiciliary Services
August Equity LLP portfolio company, Enara Group Limited, has today announced the completion of its 30th acquisition, following two recent acquisitions. Enara, a domiciliary care provider, has acquired Colvin Nursing Agency Ltd and Longacre Homecare Limited. Colvin is based in Hampstead and provides nursing, personal and domiciliary care to clients in [...]
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 [...]
SCIFIT Helps Raise Money At Charity Cycle Marathon For Active Agers!
SCIFIT (UK) Limited recently loaned their easy-access exercise bikes for use in a charity cycle marathon to raise money for the Macclesfield Belong community Village. Together with a team of local police volunteers, the residents of Belong who are recovering from joint replacement surgery or have conditions such dementia or [...]
Fuel Poverty For Over 60′s
New figures released by Department Energy Climate Change (DECC) today show the number of fuel poor households has increased to 5.5 million for 2009, a rise of 1 million since 2008. Just under half (48.5%) of all households in fuel poverty contain one person aged 60 or over. Michelle Mitchell, Charity [...]
Care Industry News Asks What Now For Southern Cross?
Care Industry News investigates the Southern Cross story and where they go from here. So Southern Cross are handing their homes back; this news doesn’t come as much of a surprise to those of you who’ve followed the story. What about the families who are concerned about whether or not their particular [...]
‘A Driving Force To Be Reckoned With…..
Working in care home operations can be frustrating at the best of times, requiring some extreme drive and dedication. But when you also happen to own the racing car factory that sits next door to your office, you could be forgiven for the odd distraction. Care Industry News spoke to Ideal Care [...]
‘£36 Million Rubber Stamped For Care’
Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks have announced the investment of millions of pounds into the British Care Sector, which means the development of 530 new jobs and 455 extra beds. This comes at the end of a week where care has received so much negative news and is excellent news for the [...]
