Tag: Homecare
Hica at Home expands its homecare service in the North west
Over 200 new jobs are to be created by the Hica Group as it expands its Hica At Home homecare operations in the North West. Hica At Home is recruiting 50 people now to service a recently-awarded Lancashire County Council tender to provide care services for residents at the newly-opened Brookside extra care housing scheme [...]
Government must seize opportunity-a view on the care white paper from McCarthy & Stone
The forthcoming care white paper presents a unique opportunity to revolutionise adult social care in this country. The potential implementation of the Dilnot reforms, the introduction of personal budgets and a greater role for financial services through products like equity release are just some of the policies expected to appear in the white paper later [...]
Compare the Care Market-Simples!
Ok, some of us get it, but let’s face it not many care homes advertise on the internet. The bigger boys advertise with the same bunch of directories and do very well as a result. Those same companies may have concerns about peer review websites, and there may be a few companies on the margins [...]
Award Winning Care At Barchester
Founded in 1992 by Mike Parsons, Barchester Healthcare took only two years to win the Care Home Design Award, hailing the beginning of Barchester becomming one of the UK’s largest quality care providers. Constantly improving and updating their existing facilities is extremely important to Barchester and with fourteen new state of the art [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Meals On Wheels-Maintaining Independence
As the evenings quickly begin to draw in the problem of social isolation becomes more apparent amongst our growing elderly population. It is possible in the warmer weather and light evenings to access outside space to have social contact with other people but as the winter approaches we all tend to [...]
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 [...]
Coming Together To Improve The Lives Of Older People
Dozens of organisations from across the voluntary, private and public sectors are coming together in partnership to celebrate the lives of older people and address the challenges of our ageing society. Launched today to coincide with Older People’s Day celebrations, the Age Action Alliance will work together to improve the lives of [...]
Jewish Care Launches The Jack Goldhill Painting Prize
Jewish Care has launched the Jack Goldhill Painting Prize. The first prize is worth £5,000, the competition is open to amateur and professional artists of any nationality, aged 18 or over, presently living or working in the UK. Artists may submit up to three pieces of their work. The prizes have been donated by [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
What’s Happening At European Care Group?
First impressions of European Care’s head office is a warm, friendly, multi cultural work force with a relaxed attitude; which is rather pleasing given the fact that European Care is the 5th largest provider of care in the UK. Its Friday lunch time and the traffic in London is as [...]
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 [...]
Domiciliary Life-ADASS Results
DIARY 24th June The results of the ADASS survey on the success of personal budgets come as no surprise. The data indicates that the increase in personal budget numbers of 35% in the year to March was almost entirely accounted for by increases in council-managed budgets. This is box-ticking at its [...]
100New Jobs Created by HICA Homecare
Over 100 new jobs are to be created within the coming months following the decision by the HICA Group to expand its Homecare operations into the North West. HICA Homecare is recruiting 20 care support workers now, with over 80 more due to be appointed within the next six months. As part of the expansion, [...]
