Tag: Nursing Care
Dorset care home residents ‘bookmark’ meeting with class of 2012
THEIR primary schools featured chalk boards, inkwells and rows of wooden desks, but residents at a Colten Care nursing home proved they still have a thirst for knowledge more than 80 years on. Five residents from Amberwood House in Ferndown journeyed to nearby Parley First School to talk with pupils about schools then and [...]
Dorset Care Homes Celebrate UK’s First Badge of Excellence
Two dementia care homes run by Colten Care in Dorset have become the first of their kind in the UK to gain a coveted badge of professional excellence. The Aldbury in Poole and Fernhill in Ferndown, which between them have 113 beds and 150 staff, are now accredited as PDUs or Practice Development Units for [...]
CQC publish further reviews of services for people with learning disabilities
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) today publishes a further 36 reports from a targeted programme of 150 unannounced inspections of hospitals and care homes that care for people with learning disabilities. The programme is looking at whether people experience safe and appropriate care, treatment and support and whether they are protected from abuse. A [...]
Glenside Care Group Acquire Castlebecks Winterbourne View
Glenside Care Group has announced the acquisition of a site in Bristol which will be developed into a new hospital service for individuals with complex neurological conditions. The site, in Bradley Stoke, was formerly Winterbourne View Independent Hospital. The service will provide treatment and rehabilitation for individuals with complex neurological conditions including acquired and traumatic [...]
10 Facts on Dementia
The World Health Organisation have issued a report on Dementia. Click here to read World Health Organisation
18 Further Reports From Unannounced Visits By CQC
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) today publishes a further 18 reports from a targeted programme of 150 unannounced inspections of hospitals and care homes that care for people with learning disabilities. The programme is looking at whether people experience safe and appropriate care, treatment and support and whether they are protected from abuse. A [...]
ECCA Responds Positively To National Challenge On Dementia
Last week the Prime Minster challenged society to respond positively to the numbers of people affected by dementia, the PM challenged communities and services to improve support. Martin Green, Chief Executive of ECCA, said: “The Independent sector is delivering services to large numbers of people with dementia and today leading organisations have committed themselves to 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 [...]
CQC Publish Further Reports Of Services For People With Learning Disabilities
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) today publishes a further 19 reports from a targeted programme of 150 unannounced inspections of hospitals and care homes that care for people with learning disabilities. The programme is looking at whether people experience safe and appropriate care, treatment and support and whether they are protected from abuse. A national [...]
New Chief Nursing Officer Faces Huge Challenges Ahead Delivering Care
Commenting on the appointment of Jane Cummings as Chief Nursing Officer on the NHS Commissioning Board, Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Chief Executive & General Secretary, Dr Peter Carter, said: “We warmly welcome Jane Cummings into her new role as the Chief Nursing Officer on the NHS Commissioning Board. We have enjoyed an excellent relationship [...]
£800,000 Investment Creates 10 New Care Jobs In Norfolk
Healthcare Homes, an East Anglian-based residential and nursing care home provider, has officially launched a new 12-bedroom extension at Shipdham Manor residential home, located in the village of Shipdham, Norfolk. An opening ceremony was hosted by the Deputy Mayor of Dereham Cllr Linda Monument, with the assistance of Shipdham Manor resident Major Anthony Cox, 93, [...]
End Of Life Care At Kidderminster Home Is Gold Standard
A Kidderminster care home has won a national award for its gold standard of care and support for residents in their final days. It recognises the work of Westley Court at Cookley in helping residents continue to enjoy their lives where they wish until the end. The home in Austcliffe Lane achieved pass status as part [...]
Review of Healthcare Services For Care Home Residents Published
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has today published the results of a review of how the healthcare needs of care home residents are met. It addresses how older people and people with learning disabilities living in care homes access healthcare services, whether they have choice and control over their healthcare and whether they receive care [...]
Further Pay Freeze on Nurses in Independent Nursing Homes
The English Community Care Association (ECCA), the leading representative charity for independent care providers, has commented on the fact that, yet again residents in nursing homes are to be subject to a freeze in the amount of money paid for their nursing care through the nursing care contribution from the NHS. Martin Green, Chief Executive [...]
Gardens Designed With Dementia In Mind
Nightingale House Care Home for older Jewish people located in Wandsworth, London has recently added a new state of the art dementia wing to their existing home. Called the Wohl Wing, this new extension has incorporated much of today’s current thinking about dementia care for the elderly. As part of this forward-looking approach, the home [...]
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 [...]
Finalists For Pinders Awards Announce Creation of 300 Jobs
A development and project management duo, formerly affiliated with a major care provider, has launched as an independent company. Having already secured contracts with other care providers, the move is set to bring work to other organisations across the country. NorthStar, working out of offices in Newcastle and South Oxfordshire, is confident that it will [...]
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 [...]
Alloa Care Home Welcomes First Resident
A new multi-million pound luxury care home in Alloa has welcomed its first resident. Ruby Shepherd, aged 90, was given a warm welcome to Parklands, the state-of-the-art, purpose-built care home in Alloa Park Drive which represents a £4.7million investment by Meallmore, one of Scotland’s leading providers of nursing and residential care. Mrs Shepherd, who has [...]
Castlemead Secures Planning For New Care Home
Castlemead Care, part of the Castlemead Housing and Care Group, has been granted planning approval for a state of the art 50,000 sq. ft. facility in Bradford on Avon, near Bath. The £9 million development will be built on the former Berryfield House hospital site, just off Bath Road, and will comprise [...]
Leeds-Funded Bobsleigh Team Enjoy Success!
LEEDS-FUNDED BOBSLEIGH TEAM ENJOY SUCCESS AT WINTER YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES Team GB, supported by two local businesses, is celebrating triumph with a silver medal in bobsleigh at the inaugural Winter Youth Olympic Games in Austria, Britain’s third medal success at the Games. The Great Britain bobsleigh team, co-sponsored by Leeds-based Maria Mallaband [...]
£4.7 million care home opens its doors
A new luxury care home in Alloa officially opens today, (Friday, 20th January) creating more than 100 jobs. Parklands, the state-of-the-art, purpose-built care home in Alloa Park Drive represents a £4.7million investment by Meallmore, one of Scotland’s leading providers of nursing and residential care. Marshall Construction will hand over the keys to the 62-bed [...]
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’ [...]
Hampshire Care Association Recruit Business Development Manager
Debbie Edwards has recently returned to the Hampshire Care Association as Business Development Manger. She will be engaged in liaising with relevant suppliers to secure valuable and significant discounts on behalf of the Association’s members. The Association will also be hosting workshops, training and information days to ensure that members are kept [...]
Wow! What A Year 2011 Was For The Healthcare Sector
Tim Godfrey – Partner – Corporate Services & Head of Healthcare blogs about the care industry. Click on the link below to read his views; Tim joined Bishop Fleming in 1994. He provides advice and support to a large number of Torbay’s business community. He is also the partner heading [...]
DC CARE SELL 2 WEST YORKSHIRE CARE HOMES
D C Care is delighted to confirm the recent sale of two 40 bed care homes in West Yorkshire. Acting upon the instructions of D F Wilson and J N R Pitts of Begbies Traynor in Leeds who were the Joint Administrators of Holberry Care Limited the homes were purchased by a [...]
Not Ideal Weather for Ideal Care Homes!
Savile Park Care Home, Mellor Street, Halifax owned by Ideal Care Homes suffered a large amount of damage during the high winds last week when part of the gable end was ripped off. No one was injured but for safety residents were moved into different parts of the building. Mark Greaves, managing director [...]
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 [...]
HPC MARKET REVIEW
HPC MARKET REVIEW January 2012 After a year which has seen a great deal of activity focused on the social care sector, it is likely that 2012 will throw up challenges of its own, in addition to suffering from symptoms of a ‘hangover’ from 2011. The cost of care is likely to figure high on [...]
ISG TAKES HAT-TRICK OF WINS WITH QUANTUM CARE
ISG continues to prove its specialist expertise in the care home sector after winning its third contract with residential care specialist, Quantum Care, in just five months. The not-for-profit company specialises in dementia and palliative care for older people, providing services for more than 2,000 older people across Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and [...]
Gathering Evidence For The 16 Essential Standards
The National Care Association are holding an event on Thursday which many care operators may be interested in attending; Gathering Evidence for the 16 Essential Standards Date: Thursday, 15th December 2011 Times: Workshop 1 – 9am-12.30pm Workshop 2 – 2pm-5.30pm Venue: National Care Association, 45-49 Leather Lane, London EC1N 7TJ For care home [...]
MP Officially Opens New 60 Bed Care Facility
Saffron Walden MP Sir Alan Haselhurst was the guest of honour at the official opening of the area’s newest care facility. Performing the ceremonial plaque unveiling, Sir Alan said the 60 bed Moat House ‘exemplifies the sophisticated needs of those in later life’. Sir Alan returned to the site on the [...]
Committee concludes care regulatory system “sufficiently rigorous”
Scotland’s care regulator, the Care Inspectorate welcomed the Scottish Parliament’s Health and Sport Committee conclusion that the inspection system for care of older people is “sufficiently rigorous” and said the Committee’s inclusion of the Care Inspectorate’s proposals for improvement in their recommendations was a strong endorsement of the Inspectorate’s direction of travel. [...]
Plunging In To The North Sea Raises Funds
Dressed as everything from hula dancers to bumble bees, the team of hardy workers from Hillcrest Care Home in Jarrow, South Tyneside, defied the winter chill and went for a dip in the North Sea. Despite the blustery wind and icy temperatures they still managed to smile as they submerged themselves in the [...]
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;
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 [...]
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 [...]
The official opening of Anisha Grange
Anisha Grange care home in Billericay was recently officially opened by the town’s mayor, Cllr Mo Larkin, and the home’s first very first resident – Jim Saunders. Hundreds of wowed guests turned up to the unveiling of the home which has just received the accolade of “The most outstanding new care home [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Treetops Care Home Sale By Christie & Co
Christie + Co has sold the Treetops Nursing Home in Oldham to an experienced local operator for an undisclosed sum. The nursing home had been built and established by Christie + Co’s clients in 1990 since which time they have established a high quality business with an excellent reputation and consistently strong levels of occupancy. [...]
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 [...]
Christie & Co Complete Sale to Willowbank
Acting on behalf of private owners, Christie + Co has sold Deansgrove Residential Care Home in Knowsley, Merseyside to regional operator Willowbank Rest Home Ltd for an undisclosed sum. Registered to care for 29 service users the home was largely purpose-built having been extended from an existing property, providing care in 25 single and 2 [...]
Excellent News Maria Mallaband Group Save 2250 Care Jobs
Care Operator Maria Mallaband Care Group announced they have taken over the running of 35 Southern Cross Care Homes saving the jobs of over 2,250 jobs and making the future of residents secure. Excellent news for the sector- Is your company doing the same? Email me jackiebrook@careindustrynews.co.uk
Simply Unite At The Care Show
For families with loved ones living in residential care homes, it is vital to keep communications as accessible as possible for all parties concerned. Furthermore, within the care system, these communications must be tailored to suit residents with a range of skills and ability levels. This is particularly pertinent in a [...]
A Picture Of Health For Social Care?
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) today publishes its third annual report to Parliament on the state of health and adult social care in England. The report covers the period April 2010 until March 2011 and encompasses evidence from the CQC’s first year of regulation under the Health and Social Care Act 2008. [...]
Thank You For The Memories!
A new touch-screen computer system has revolutionised activity sessions for residents at Care South’s Leybourne House care home in Bournemouth. Digital Reminiscence Therapy Software (DRTS) is an easy to use touch-screen system which can support conversations between people living with dementia, their families, and the people who provide their formal care. [...]
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 [...]
