Tag: Home Care
Alzheimer Scotland comment on the case of Jeanette Maitland, whose husband received 106 carers over one year
No one should have to go through the experience that Jeanette Maitland and her late husband faced. Unjustifiably frequent changes of support and care staff are simply not acceptable in any circumstance, particularly where dementia is concerned, and we must learn some very quick lessons from this terrible situation. There are around 84,000 people [...]
Any improvements to care inspections are positive, but the question remains, is it enough?
Changes to Home Care Inspections The Guardian recently ran an article where Philip King of the CQC explained the new programme of inspections due to be rolled out for home care across the UK. He illustrated the practical difficulties of inspecting home care, including the fact that the carer may well be providing care of [...]
Unnannounced Visits To Home Care Services Begin
The Care Quality Commission (CCQ) has this week embarked on a special programme of 250 unannounced inspections of home care services. Over the next three months the CQC will be carrying out inspections to test ways of getting better information about how services are performing and what people think about their services. The inspections will [...]
NACC Respond To David Camerons Comments on Dementia
As the next decade is set to see the number of people suffering from Dementia hit 1 million, David Cameron outlined this week, his measures to tackle this ‘national crisis’. He announced a doubling of research funding to try and make the UK a world leader in the field. Sir Mark Walport, Director of [...]
West Midlands Home Care Create 150 New Jobs
Afro-Caribbean Businesswomen of the Year 1996 – Nikki Walker is set to create 150 new domiciliary care jobs having just secured two new contracts for her company West Midlands Home-Based Care which provides 24 hour care and domiciliary services to people living in their own homes. The care provider won contracts from Walsall and Warwickshire to [...]
Achieving Great Respite Care
It is estimated that there are around six million people in the UK who are unpaid carers, looking after a partner, family member or friend due to disability, illness or age. These carers often have to fit their role around working, studying and other commitments. While this is hard enough, some people also do [...]
Ark Expands Home Care Across UK
Leading care provider Ark Home Healthcare (Ark) is to recruit over 100 new care workers this year as it continues to expand its home care offer across the UK. The jobs will be provided in Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire and will support in part a recently-won contract with Surrey County Council to provide domiciliary and [...]
Westward Care Deliver Care At Home
Regional care provider, Westward Care has launched At Home – a premium home care service for older people in Leeds which provides a professional and reliable alternative to moving into a care home. “There was a time when things were black and white. You were either able to lead an independent life at home, [...]
O2 Health Takes Telecare Mobile
Today, O2 Health launches Help at Hand, the UK’s first telecare service built around mobile technology. In a major step forward for the care industry, Help at Hand expands telecare support beyond the boundaries of the home giving people with long term conditions the freedom, reassurance and support they need to go about their daily [...]
A Note About The Weather From Age UK
“Over a third of over 65s fall each year and snow and ice pose real dangers for older people. Older people worried about falling should ask a friend, family member or neighbour to help out with shopping. For those who decide not to go out, it is important to keep active at [...]
Harrogate Food Angels
A FIRST FOR HARROGATE AS THE FOOD ANGELS COME TO TOWN Harrogate’s community will now be receiving fresh, hot meals delivered to their homes for the first time thanks to a newly launched service – Harrogate Food Angels. The initiative is set to make an immediate positive impact on those who rely [...]
Person Centred Care Not Being Delivered
People often not at the centre of their own care, says CQC as it publishes reports from its review of services for people with learning disabilities. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) today publishes a further 20 reports from a targeted programme of 150 unannounced inspections of hospitals and care homes that [...]
Living On A Low Income
What you say is ‘I don’t really need it, I’ll get by without it’. That’s it” Woman, aged 78, single household. New research(1) commissioned by Age UK shows the realities of how older people manage living on a low income as a new poll (2) reveals that over a half (55%) of people aged 60 [...]
Bluebird Care Launches Website
Bluebird Care, one of the largest and fastest-growing care at home providers, has reported a surge in enquiries at its head and regional offices since launching its new website www.bluebirdcare.co.uk earlier this month. The informative website for the Petersfield-based company, which has over 130 offices nationwide and provides over 6,800 care visits a [...]
Virtual reality exercise games could be better for the brain than regular exercise
Computerised exercise games could have more cognitive benefits for older people than traditional exercise according to a study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine today (Tuesday 17 January 2012). The New York-based research involved 63 adults aged 58-99 years old over two years. Scientists found that participants who used a ‘cybercycle’ [...]
What makes a front door valuable?
Answer: because it’s your own. When it comes to assisted living most occupants are prepared to pay a premium for their own front door – be it to the street or to the common parts of a building. Your own front door plus communal facilities adds even more value say Tayo Bilewu, [...]
TUC Day of Action
Are you involved in the strikes on Wednesday? Do you sympathise with the strikers? Let me know if the day of action has an effect on your business and staff. Will it damage your business? Will you be able to provide adequate care? Leave your comments below;
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 [...]
Paul Burstow Minister of Care Comments
Paul Burstow has made the following statements both written and oral to questions regarding care in the UK. ”The proposals we have outlined in the Health and Social Care Bill place a much firmer emphasis on. The importance of integration-better collaboration, partnership working and integration across social care and the national health [...]
HSBC REFINANCE NURTURES GROWTH AT SEVACARE
Wolverhampton-based Sevacare, the 6th largest domiciliary care at home business in the UK, has been supported with £5m of funding by HSBC’s Corporate Banking team in the Midlands. Led by Senior Corporate Manager Martin Walters, supported by Chris Westwood of HSBC Invoice Finance, the funding will enable Sevacare to continue with its [...]
Can We Deliver Excellent Home Care?
Can it really be true that 50% of those home care service users questioned have suffered some form of abuse? Nobody can who’s listened to the news last week can fail to be horrified by the stories and figures released by the EHRC- What is happening to our sector? How can [...]
AGE UK Statement On EHRC Home Care Enquiry
Michelle Mitchell, Charity Director at Age UK says: “The evidence of physical and financial abuse uncovered by the EHRC home care inquiry is shameful. It is simply unacceptable that care in people’s own homes, where they can be at their most vulnerable, is often inadequate, disrespectful and lacking in dignity. By definition [...]
90 New Jobs To Be Created To Meet Demand For Retirement Living & Care In Oakham
Up to 90 new jobs could be created following the grant of outline planning permission for a new continuing care retirement community (CCRC) and a care home in Oakham, Rutland. Specialist healthcare and retirement living developer Larkpoint (www.larkpoint.co.uk), a joint venture between Nottingham based Charterpoint Developments and Bourne based Larkfleet Group, has [...]
Celebrities join Apetito to celebrate National Community Meals Week
Community Meals hit the headlines when a host of dignitaries and celebrities joined apetito, the leading national supplier of Meals on Wheels to local authorities throughout the UK, as it made its daily deliveries to pensioners across the country. To celebrate this year’s National Community Meals Week and raise awareness of the service, [...]
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 [...]
A Positive Outlook From AJ Social Care
With recent announcements causing negative media attention and calls for reform throughout the social care industry, local care provider, AJ Social Care, has called for a more positive outlook to drive change and give greater support to a more progressive social agenda. Jo Guy, Managing Director of AJ Social [...]
£9.5m Funding From Bank of Ireland For New Care Projects
Bank of Ireland has recently provided funding of £9.5m to New Care Projects LLP to refinance their existing Manorhey Care Centre in the Borough of Trafford and build a new flagship 84 bed facility, in Timperley, near Altrincham. The development led Partnership which looks to marry the skill sets of the Development sector with [...]
Care Home Directory For Yorkshire
Tadcaster firm Kaleton Ltd today announced the launch of a new online Care Home Directory Initiative serving the whole of Yorkshire. The web site, CareHomesYorkshire.com, aims to make essential information about accessing care services easily available to everyone in the county. “Traditionally, details of local Care Homes have only been available [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Balancing The Books-Paul Burstow Comments
Four Seasons have agreed the transfer of 57 of the 288 care homes from the now failed Southern Cross. A further 88 will be transferred in the 2nd tranche. This arrangement is with the full knowledge of the Care Quality Commission. Four Seasons have assets currently valued at £350m and debts [...]
HICA To Open Specialist Day Care Centre
At a time when day care centres across the country are facing cuts and closures, the HICA Group is shortly to open a day care centre in Hull, which has been designed specifically for people with dementia. The new centre, built within the grounds of HICA’s The Rowans care home in [...]
AJ GROUP PLANS EXPANSION WITH TEN NEW ROLES
AJ Group the provider of care, training and recruitment for the social care market, has announced its plans to expand the team with the addition of no fewer than ten new roles, which are available at its head office in Leeds. The business has seen an increase in turnover of 10% with recent account [...]
Best Practice, Best Care Show!
Over 1500 professionals from across the care sector are set to join forces this October to collaborate and share best practice at Care Show 2011. Taking place at London’s Olympia from 11-12 October 2011, Care Show London is a leading event for the care sector, combining an important mix of industry [...]
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, [...]
Mr Burstow, Your Comments Please
Good afternoon Mr Burstow I am currently running a story on www.careindustrynews.co.uk regarding the possibility of other care groups/providers being potentially insolvent and I have run the written response between you and Tom Blenkinsop MP but if you read the comments the story has received plus comments regarding the debacle [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Cutting Edge of Domiciliary Care
DIARY OF A HOME CARE COMPANY DIRECTOR Being a care provider in the domiciliary arena in 2011 is clearly a challenge; balancing service user / customer/ client needs with Local Authorities attempting to get their minds round the whole subject of personalisation against a background of cost cuts is “interesting”. I [...]
Flawed System Exposed
The English Community Care Association (ECCA), the leading representative body for independent care providers, has responded to the interim report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission on home care. Martin Green, Chief Executive of ECCA, says: “The report identifies that the rhetoric of personalisation and empowerment is not the reality of [...]
Hica Home Care Gear Up For 2000 New Jobs In Care
The Hull-based independent care provider the HICA Group has appointed Matthew Rockett to the newly-created position of Finance Director as the Group gears itself up for a programme of expansion that is set to create 2,000 new jobs in the next five years and will more than double turnover from [...]
Marie Curie Launch Out of Hours Nursing Service-For Patients at Home
The Marie Curie Nursing Service, in partnership with NHS Grampian, is launching a new out of hours nursing service for Aberdeenshire and Moray to deliver nursing care for patients in their own homes. From the 4th April, the Out of Hours Nursing Service for Aberdeenshire and Moray will deliver high quality nursing care to meet [...]
