Tag: Care Sector News
For Sale Superb Care Development In Edinburgh
Christie + Co, the care home specialist, has been appointed by award-winning Edinburgh-based developer AMA (New Town) Ltd to market for sale a superb care development in the Scottish capital. The new, purpose-built care development is in Cramond, a highly desirable and affluentEdinburghsuburb, and comprises a 96-bed care home, with the surrounding site to feature [...]
”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 [...]
Help Bupa Tackle Loneliness In Older People-With Gaffer!
Bupa care homes are teaming up with the Tetley Tea Folk and are calling on communities across the UK to create a special ‘Communi-tea Cosy’ for Gaffer. The aim is to raise awareness of Bupa’s Communi-tea Week [12 – 18 March], a nationwide campaign which uses the theme of tea to tackle the problems of [...]
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 [...]
Army Service Enjoyed By Bournemouth Care Home Residents
THEY are more used to dangerous frontline manoeuvres, but a detachment of British officers instead brought a taste of army service to a Colten Care nursing home. Members of the Royal Corps of Signals Troop Commanders Course ‘took over’ the Avon Cliff home in Bournemouth, dispensing afternoon tea and cakes, joining residents on a seafront [...]
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 [...]
A Record-breaking Year For The NACC
The National Association of Care Catering (NACC) is celebrating a record number of entries for its showpiece event, the NACC Care Cook of the Year 2012, supported by The Worshipful Company of Cooks. The fantastic support for this prestigious competition comes in the year that also sees the association commemorate its Silver anniversary, as well [...]
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 [...]
McCarthy & Stone Development In Cardiff
With over 30 years experience McCarthy & Stone is Britain’s leading retirement builder and offers a choice of different types of retirement developments that includes Retirement Living, Assisted Living and Tailored Care Living. While most of us would like to remain in our family home for as long as possible, as we get older, it [...]
Nerston Care Home In The Pink To Raise Money For Cancer Charity
Residents, relatives and staff at Care UK’s Cathkin House care home in East Kilbride had a day of fun and activities and raised more than £335 for the Breast Cancer Campaign appeal. The care team and residents wore pink and made and sold pink cakes as part of their fundraising efforts. Administrator Teresa Duffy and [...]
TECHNOGYM Works With Care Homes To Improve The Health & Wellbeing Of Residents
TECHNOGYM works with Care Homes to improve the health and wellbeing of residents CASE STUDY: J’s story For over 25 years, Technogym, a global leader in Wellness equipment and services, has been spreading its Wellness lifestyle philosophy, a way of life based on regular physical activity, a positive approach to life and healthy eating habits. [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
Dignity Action Day-What are you doing?
Every year in February, the SCIE charity, Social Care Institute for Excellence http://www.dignityincare.org.uk/DAD/ ask professionals in the health and social care sector and indeed the general public, to give up some time to help make a difference to someone’s life who is either in care or receiving care services. This year, the team [...]
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 [...]
Alzheimer’s Society Comments On ARUK Defeating Dementia
ARUK Defeating Dementia report: Alzheimer’s Society comment Alzheimer’s Research UK (ARUK) has challenged the government to commit to a national dementia research strategy. The charity’s new report, Defeating Dementia, warns that the UK’s world-renowned dementia knowledge base could be lost unless scientists have better opportunities to enter and remain in the field. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Winterbourne 10 Charged
Further to the BBC Panorama programme aired on May 31 2011; Police have now charged 10 people with 40 charges under the Mental Health Act. These offences were made against 4 residents within the care of Winterbourne View owned and operated by Castlebeck. The charges have been made against 3 women and 7 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Welcome HC-One
The English Community Care Association (ECCA), the leading representative charity for independent care services has today welcomed the arrival of HC-One, as a dynamic new force in care provision. Martin Green, Chief Executive of ECCA, says: “The Board and Executive Team at HC-One have an impressive track record of delivering [...]
People Wont Find You If You Dont Raise Your Profile!
Get the right PR for your business When I speak to organisations about their PR it’s without fail very one sided. It’s always about their business and very little about their customers. This is more than a mistake it can be disastrous for a business. Ignore your customers’ needs at your [...]
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 [...]
Protect Your Clients Assets
Are you a Residential Home Provider or Nursing Home Provider? What existing arrangements do you have in place to manage vulnerable client’s funds? Are any existing arrangements in place robust enough to cover yourself from any associated risks? For example are you holding large amounts of funds for [...]
Love Of Food Massively Important For Elderly Says Apetito
Commenting on the Care Quality Commission’s report Lee Sheppard, Divisional Manager Care Homes at apetito commented: “In the 21st century, to learn that some of the country’s most frail and vulnerable people are being denied sufficient nourishment is incredible. We’re not talking about a complex medical issue here. It’s a basic, essential [...]
The Next Step-Finding Appropriate Placements After In-Patient Rehabilitation
The ABIL meeting held on 4 October addressed the challenges and successes of finding placements that fully meet the needs and wants of a patient, whether immediately after in-patient rehab or years down the line. After a welcome from Norman Keen, Chair of ABIL, Enable Care’s Keith Hawley opened the meeting challenging [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Equal Pay For Sheffield Female Care Workers
In a test case due to be heard in the Supreme Court in a few weeks time Sheffield female workers were due to test Sheffield City Councils stance on a refusal to acknowledge the Equal Pay Act. Sheffield City Council announced yesterday it has reached agreement with public sector unions after a four-year court battle [...]
National Clinical Director To Headline NCA Conference Dementia Care Work Stream
Prof. Alistair Burns, National Clinical Director for Dementia at the Department of Health will be the headline speaker at the Dementia Care work stream on day one of this year’s National Care Association Conference. This specialist work stream event will feature a wide range of prominent and expert speakers discussing a [...]
AID CALL – TRUSTED TECHNOLOGY
With over thirty years’ experience, Aid Call is the leading supplier of wireless nurse call systems for care homes. With our first class knowledge, innovative approach and reputation for delivering reliable, safe solutions, Aid Call offer complete service and support to the industry. Aid Call understands that no two [...]
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 Announces Further Closures
Castlebeck has announced its intention to close Rose Villa, a care home in Bristol. A planned process of transition for the five residents currently living at the home has begun, in conjunction with service users, their families and care managers, to ensure they experience the least disruption as possible. Staff [...]
More Than A Quarter Of Employers Risk Breaking The Law
A quarter of employers (28 per cent) risk unwittingly breaching the law according to new research carried out by employment relations experts Acas. The findings were revealed by a study of organisations that had used the Acas Model Workplace – a free online tool to help businesses identify and resolve [...]
