Tag: Care UK
Excited Essex residents say goodbye to their old home and hello to the new
Residents at Care UK’s Halstead Lodge have just bid farewell to their old home and said hello to the new one they helped to design. Care UK made it a special priority to ensure that residents and their relatives were not only consulted thoroughly and sensitively, but also took an active part in helping to [...]
Care UK is ahead of the game
Independent healthcare provider Care UK is ahead of the game when it comes to waiting times for certain planned NHS operations. Figures released recently by the Patients Association showed that there had been a significant increase in waiting times for some operations in NHS hospitals in 2011 compared with the figures for the previous [...]
Rustington nursing home starts two-year quest for end of life excellence
The team at Care UK’s Darlington Court nursing home is this week starting a nationally accredited programme of training and evaluation to gain the country’s highest recognition of end of life care. The Gold Standard Framework Care Home Accreditation (GSFCH), approved by the NHS, Department of Health, Age UK and Macmillan Cancer Support, is [...]
Investigating the past for a fulfilling future
Residents and staff at Care UK’s Whitby Dene care home will spend Local and Community History Month investigating local history for a display at the home and learning about each other’s multicultural heritage and traditions. Manager Sue Ann Jones said: “History Month, which takes place in May, has given us a great opportunity to [...]
Tea Dance With Care UK In Epsom Care Home
Residents and visitors to Epsom’s Appleby House care home and Orchard Centre stepped back in time and got a real flavour of the fifties at a special tea dance on April 20th. With 1950’s music, people dressed in 1950’s clothes and a buffet of food popular during that decade. There featured a custom-made pop up reminiscence [...]
100 Years Young & Back To School
It was back to the classroom for former headteacher Miss Isobelle McGregor recently as she celebrated her 100th birthday by visiting the primary school, where she taught for more than 12 years in the 1970s. The special visit to Askrigg Primary School was put together by team members at the Care UK-run Terrace care [...]
PERSISTENCE PAYS OFF FOR BYKER JOBSEEKER
The persistence of a 20-year-old man from Newcastle, who has applied for more than a 1,000 jobs since leaving school, has finally paid off. Wesley McGinn, who lives in Byker, has just started working for Care UK, which provides care services throughout the region in the health, residential, community and mental health sectors. Now a [...]
Years of dedication and care celebrated at Mitcham nursing home
There was a party atmosphere at Care UK’s Cumberland House as residents, families and colleagues gathered on Tuesday 27th March to congratulate their friends who have been working at the Whitford Gardens home for 15 years. Support workers Sylvia Bautista, Mabel Davis and Sally Johnson, nurses Ermine Clarke and Maureen Ogg and laundry assistant Gladys [...]
Happy St Patricks Day to Rickmansworth Residents!
There will be a sea of green at Care UK’s Chalfont Court today, as residents and their relatives celebrate St Patrick’s Day with a special teatime and a glass of Guinness. Activities Coordinator Emily Stimpson said: “We have a number of residents and staff with a connection to Ireland and everyone loves a party so [...]
New Essex Care Home Welcomes A New Manager
Care UK has appointed Heather Choat as manager of its brand-new home, Colne View in Halstead, Essex. The new care home located at Colchester Road, Halstead will open next month and will offer residents the ultimate in comfort as well as the highest standards of personalised care available. Newly appointed manager, Heather Choat, is excited [...]
Hats Off To Fundraising Staff At Crewe Nursing Home
Staff at Care UK’s Station House nursing home in Crewe, are putting on their hats to raise money for the charity Brain Tumour Research, in memory of a much-loved resident who recently passed away. On Friday 30th March staff, residents and relatives will be joining in national Wear a Hat Day to raise funds for [...]
Sussex Students Getting Real Life Experience Of Caring
Students from West Sussex College in Hayward’s Heath will be joining in the fun at Care UK’s Beech Hurst nursing home, as well as learning about care and dignity, as they start a programme of work experience this week. Deputy Manager Rachel Purcell explained: “We use Activity Based Care in the home, which means we [...]
A Heart Warming Story Which Begins With ABC
When Harry Hattermore experienced a stroke that left him unable to walk or eat solid food, he thought his life was over, but, thanks to his perseverance, the love of his family and the caring approach of the team at Care UK’s Little Holland Hall, he now has a new lease of life. Nursing home [...]
Time For a Cuppa?
Residents at around twenty Care UK residential and nursing homes have chosen to raise money for Dementia UK as part of Time for a Cuppa day next Monday (27th February). Time for a Cuppa is about bringing people together across the country to hold an event at home, in the workplace or in the community [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Work Begins On Pioneering New Nursing Home
Work has begun on Care UK’s latest ground-breaking nursing home, which will provide residential and dementia care for 90 residents. As well as expert care, the home on Redford Road, Edinburgh, will bring around 80 new jobs to the area, and local residents will also benefit from a woodland area near the development [...]
Gold Standard For End Of Life Care
Care UK’s Forrester Court, Paddington, has been awarded the prestigious Gold Standard Framework (GSF) Care Homes Accreditation for its work with residents at the end of their life. The award, approved by the NHS, Department of Health, Age UK and Macmillan Cancer Support, is designed to acknowledge the highest levels of end of [...]
Orpington Care Home Site On Track
Mild winter helps keep work on new Orpington care home site on track Work is well underway on a new care home at the Sevenoaks Road site in Orpington, Kent with the first stage of the concrete foundations being poured this week. Once opened, the home will provide nursing and residential care for over [...]
Dignity Action in Liverpool
Residents and their families at Care UK’s Paisley Court have found a creative way to raise issues surrounding older people’s dignity as they celebrate Dignity Action Day on Wednesday 1st February. Together staff and residents have created a tree in the foyer of the home in Dovecot. The tree has been designed to [...]
Care UK announces its first Head of Dementia Care
Award winning care company names its first Head of Dementia Care Care UK has announced the appointment of Maizie Mears-Owen as the organisation’s first Head of Dementia Care. Since joining the company in 2008 as a service development manager, Maizie has contributed to the development of Care UK’s dementia [...]
Health Advice For The Festive Break
Recent news from Care UK Health advice for the festive break Care UK GP’s have put together a handy checklist to help you get prepared for health care issues over the festive break. Preparation is the key to a relaxing Christmas – from present buying to shopping – and the same [...]
Who Are The Twenty Most Important Care Providers In The UK?
As the role of independent healthcare providers grows ever stronger, and the prospect of greater outsourcing of services becomes a reality in the ongoing NHS reform programme, the chief executive of healthcare intelligence provider Laing & Buisson has published a list of the twenty most important providers operating in UK healthcare [...]
Carers & Families Experience Dementia
Relatives who provide care for loved ones with dementia were given a valuable insight into the condition at Care UK‘s newest residential and nursing home on Thursday. Care UK‘s Experience Dementia event at Heather View, Crowborough, was timed to take place during Dementia Awareness Week (3-9 July), an important national initiative [...]
Positive Training In Dementia-A Lesson To Learn
Maizie Mears-Owens works for Care UK – one of the most highly regarded residential home providers in the country. Her job is unique – she helps the company to devise new, improved ways of caring for people with dementia. In the article below, Maizie talks about how she made the transition from a [...]
Fairer Funding Is The Right Route To Go Down
Care UK welcomes the publication of the Fairer Care Funding report as a useful step forward in creating a simpler and more equitable way of paying for social care. Mike Parish, Chief Executive of Care UK (pictured), the care home operator, said limiting people’s exposure to their own [...]
MindLeaders ThirdForce announce one of the first learners in the UK to complete the new QCF Health and Social Care Diploma Level 2.
The new qualification has replaced the NVQ and is designed for anyone who works with people to support and assist them with physical or emotional care, daily living needs or maintaining their independence. The Health and Social Care Diploma is the natural training progression from the Common Induction Standards (CIS) e-learning course. The diploma course [...]
