Tag: Care Operator News
Voyage Care Clear Leader in Learning Disability Services
Voyage Care Clear Leader in Learning Disability Services with acquisition of Solor Care Voyage Care (Voyage), the UK specialist care provider for people with learning disabilities, brain injuries and other complex needs, yesterday announced the acquisition of Solor Care. Solor Care was previously owned by Barclays Ventures, Royal Bank of Scotland and Management. The acquisition [...]
New Gosforth Home Care Business To Create 40 Caring Jobs
A business specialising in providing care for older people in their own homes has opened at the Regents Centre in Gosforth and is looking to create 40 jobs in the coming year. Home Instead Senior Care will serve clients in Newcastle upon Tyne and surrounding areas and is part of a national network recognised as [...]
Healthcare Providers Dig Into Collaborative Working
An innovative partnership to provide pioneering services for people and their families affected by Working Age Dementia, Huntingdon’s Disease and alcohol related brain injury has got underway between Barchester Healthcare and Nottinghamshire Healthcare, as both parties took part in ‘ground breaking’ on the site of their new venture. Mike Parsons, Founder and Chief Executive of [...]
”You’re Never Too Old To Learn Something New” Say Care Home Residents
“Had I realised it was this simple, I’d have done it years ago!” enthused a care home resident in Lancashire. Her care home is one of 300+ who have installed Gem, an easy-to-use computer developed by SimplyUnite. The touchscreen system combines email, Skype, web browsing and interactive games through a simple interface with the aim [...]
Scarborough Hall Care Home Receives Major Face Lift
The home was taken over by one of the UK’s leading health care providers, Avery Healthcare, in December 2010. Scarborough Hall is now well into its refurbishment programme, the residential and dementia care home provides 85 en-suite rooms with showers – all equipped to a high specification. It offers the very best in clinical care [...]
Care UK To Re-open Orchid View
West Sussex care home Orchid View will be given a new start this summer after leading health and social care provider Care UK agreed to buy and re-open the Copthorne home. Managers at Care UK are promising a ‘new beginning’ for the home which is currently closed. Richard Pearman, Care UK’s Director of Business Development, [...]
A Colourful Anniversary For Leading Epsom Care Home
Staff and residents and Care UK’s Appleby House, Epsom, are planning a special party and art exhibition to celebrate the home’s 10th anniversary on Saturday 25th February. Residents, at the home in Longmead Road, have been working with activity coordinators to create works of art for the exhibition as well as preparing decorations for the [...]
Red Tape Champion Visits Nightingale
Dame Denise Platt, The Independent Care Sectors Red Tape Champion, made a visit to Nightingale to see for herself the bureaucratic and administrative burdens faced by care providers. Leon Smith, the Chief Executive of Nightingale, said: “We were delighted to discuss with Dame Denise the Red Tape Challenge, and to show her the many examples [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Improve Monitoring Across Care
The English Community Care Association, the leading representative charity for care providers has commented on the CQC’s suggestion that hospitals should keep the dossier on people who are admitted from care homes with malnutrition or hydration issues. Martin Green, Chief Executive of ECCA, says: “There is a need for improved monitoring across the [...]
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 [...]
Cutting Edge Technology Saves Money
IT company Zest Solutions launches a budget busting tool to help businesses save money and time in this period of bottom line focus with an online business consumables store called Your Zest Online. The online store satisfies the more budget conscious of companies who are looking to curb the increasing price of [...]
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 [...]
