Tag: Nursing Homes
Past, Present and Future
“The future ain’t what it used to be” said Yogi Berra, you can’t predict the future from the past was the opinion of political theorist Edmund Burke while Bill Clinton said the future “is an opportunity”. Undaunted by all these observations Jon Chapman, Director of Pinders, will be examining future prospect for values in the [...]
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 [...]
DC CARE TEAM SELL LEARNING DISABILITY GROUP
Specialist Property Agent DC Care is pleased to announce the sale of Emerald Care Services Ltd in South Yorkshire, a group providing care for adults with learning disabilities or autism who may display challenging behaviours. The group was established by operators Gary and Julie Hurlstone six years ago and in that time [...]
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;
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 [...]
Affected By Mental Health?
‘Park Bench’, a short film written and produced by a group of Jewish Care’s mental health educators along with Magpie Motion Productions was launched at the Martin B. Cohen Centre for Wellbeing in Edgware on Monday 10th October on World Mental Health Day. The red carpet event was attended by 80 [...]
Liverpool’s Abbeydale care home sold by Christie + Co
Acting on behalf of Doson Ltd, Christie + Co has sold Abbeydale Nursing & Residential Home in Liverpool to an existing local operator for an undisclosed sum. This is the second care home deal to have completed within the region during the last month. The home, which operated with a fully qualified RGN Manager, is [...]
ECCA Responds To Excellence Scheme
The English Community Care Association (ECCA), the leading representative charity for independent care providers, has responded to the announcement that the proposed Care Quality Commission (CQC) excellence scheme will not go ahead . Martin Green, Chief Executive of ECCA, says: “The care sector is committed to delivering quality and excellence in care [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
HICA Care Homes MD Wins National Award
Ty Platten, Managing Director of the HICA Group’s Care Homes Division, has beaten representatives of some of the UK’s biggest independent healthcare providers to win a prestigious national award. Ty won the Management Excellence Award category in the Laing & Buisson Independent Healthcare Awards. The Awards showcase professional skills, management leadership, excellence [...]
Declining Basic Care Quality For Care Homes In The UK
Patient hygiene is a critical aspect of care administered to patients to promote dignity and independent living. The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement recognises the importance of this and provides publications to aid nursing staff and carers in creating a supportive environment that encourages spending sufficient time with patients during [...]
Is Fee Growth Weakening? Read Colliers Healthcare Report
The latest Care Homes Review from Colliers International, which measures occupancy rates, average weekly fees, payroll costs, non-payroll costs and profit margins, has revealed that while average nominal weekly fees have increased steadily over the last two years, in real terms fee growth weakened significantly in the last year. Salary and national insurance costs as [...]
The Pinders Healthcare Design Awards 2011
An audience of over 550 packed into Lords Cricket Ground for the annual celebration of care home design. They gave a warm welcome to Sir Michael Parkinson, who presented the awards and talked passionately about his role as the Government’s Ambassador for Dignity for the Elderly. Sir Michael generously gave his time for free, [...]
