Tag: Social Care News
Commission On Improving Dignity In Care
The Commission on improving dignity in care released its draft report and recommendations for public consultation on Wednesday on 29 February 2012. The draft report sets out ten key recommendations for hospitals and ten key recommendations for care homes to help them tackle the underlying causes of undignified care, as well detailed recommendations on the changes [...]
Barchester & Castleoak – Building Green Homes For The Future Of Care
Barchester Healthcare today received the keys to Juniper House care home in Brackley, the newest build of 2012, which enhances the independent care provider’s portfolio. Jane Tombleson, the General Manager at Juniper House, was delighted to accept the keys to the latest 60-bed property in Candleford Close from Dean Richards, Project Director at Castleoak, the [...]
104-year-old helps celebrate Castle View’s tenth birthday
ONE of Dorset’s oldest residents enjoyed a slice of the action when her care home celebrated its tenth birthday. Christina Ungaretti, 104, was invited to cut a specially baked cake marking the first decade of Colten Care’s Castle View home at Poundbury, Dorchester. Earlier the 57-bed home had provided a lunch for local businesses and [...]
Antipsychotic Drugs Could Increase Death Risk For Dementia Sufferers
Some antipsychotic drugs could increase death risk in elderly people with dementia New research suggests nursing home residents over the age of 65 who take certain antipsychotic medications for dementia are at an increased risk of death. A study by the Harvard Medical School published today (23 February 2012) on bmj.com, looked at 75,445 nursing [...]
For Sale Superb Care Development In Edinburgh
Christie + Co, the care home specialist, has been appointed by award-winning Edinburgh-based developer AMA (New Town) Ltd to market for sale a superb care development in the Scottish capital. The new, purpose-built care development is in Cramond, a highly desirable and affluentEdinburghsuburb, and comprises a 96-bed care home, with the surrounding site to feature [...]
New Gosforth Home Care Business To Create 40 Caring Jobs
A business specialising in providing care for older people in their own homes has opened at the Regents Centre in Gosforth and is looking to create 40 jobs in the coming year. Home Instead Senior Care will serve clients in Newcastle upon Tyne and surrounding areas and is part of a national network recognised as [...]
Healthcare Providers Dig Into Collaborative Working
An innovative partnership to provide pioneering services for people and their families affected by Working Age Dementia, Huntingdon’s Disease and alcohol related brain injury has got underway between Barchester Healthcare and Nottinghamshire Healthcare, as both parties took part in ‘ground breaking’ on the site of their new venture. Mike Parsons, Founder and Chief Executive of [...]
”You’re Never Too Old To Learn Something New” Say Care Home Residents
“Had I realised it was this simple, I’d have done it years ago!” enthused a care home resident in Lancashire. Her care home is one of 300+ who have installed Gem, an easy-to-use computer developed by SimplyUnite. The touchscreen system combines email, Skype, web browsing and interactive games through a simple interface with the aim [...]
Christie & Co Seal The Deal On JV In Hampshire
Two well-established Hampshire businesses, Highwood Group and Hartford Care, have been brought together by the business adviser Christie + Co and combined forces in a joint venture to open a new elderly care home in the heart of the New Forest. Highwood Group, experienced care developers with many major projects currently under construction, acquired Hill [...]
GPs Could Soon Offer Their Patients Free Smartphone Apps
GPs could soon offer their patients free smartphone apps to help with managing health conditions. The Department of Health says its initiative is the “next step” in the drive to give patients more control over their own health. The apps could help diabetics keep a check on their blood sugar and patients monitor their own [...]
Help Bupa Tackle Loneliness In Older People-With Gaffer!
Bupa care homes are teaming up with the Tetley Tea Folk and are calling on communities across the UK to create a special ‘Communi-tea Cosy’ for Gaffer. The aim is to raise awareness of Bupa’s Communi-tea Week [12 – 18 March], a nationwide campaign which uses the theme of tea to tackle the problems of [...]
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 [...]
Care UK To Re-open Orchid View
West Sussex care home Orchid View will be given a new start this summer after leading health and social care provider Care UK agreed to buy and re-open the Copthorne home. Managers at Care UK are promising a ‘new beginning’ for the home which is currently closed. Richard Pearman, Care UK’s Director of Business Development, [...]
Avery Create 70 New Jobs In Hatfield
Acacia Mews Care Home is located on the site of the old Police Headquarters on St Albans Road East. The site was bought by UK care operator Avery Healthcare following the relocation of the Hatfield Police Station The luxury residential and dementia care home is a £3.5 million refurbishment project and was [...]
Army Service Enjoyed By Bournemouth Care Home Residents
THEY are more used to dangerous frontline manoeuvres, but a detachment of British officers instead brought a taste of army service to a Colten Care nursing home. Members of the Royal Corps of Signals Troop Commanders Course ‘took over’ the Avon Cliff home in Bournemouth, dispensing afternoon tea and cakes, joining residents on a seafront [...]
Students Dance With Residents
Dance Movement Psychotherapy students from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh (QMU) have been using their skills to support older people living in care homes. This innovative pilot project provided first year students on the University’s Master Degree in Dance Movement Psychotherapy with an outstanding learning experience, whilst also offering care home residents the opportunity to benefit [...]
A Colourful Anniversary For Leading Epsom Care Home
Staff and residents and Care UK’s Appleby House, Epsom, are planning a special party and art exhibition to celebrate the home’s 10th anniversary on Saturday 25th February. Residents, at the home in Longmead Road, have been working with activity coordinators to create works of art for the exhibition as well as preparing decorations for the [...]
Red Tape Champion Visits Nightingale
Dame Denise Platt, The Independent Care Sectors Red Tape Champion, made a visit to Nightingale to see for herself the bureaucratic and administrative burdens faced by care providers. Leon Smith, the Chief Executive of Nightingale, said: “We were delighted to discuss with Dame Denise the Red Tape Challenge, and to show her the many examples [...]
What’s The Real Cost Of Nutrition In Care?
With Laing & Buisson’s research into council funding for care services in Sefton hitting the headlines this month, Lee Sheppard, Divisional Manager Care Homes at apetito, examines the pressures faced by care homes to provide nutritious food for residents with ever-tightening budgets … “National newspapers were quick to run the headline that some care homes [...]
McCarthy & Stone Development In Cardiff
With over 30 years experience McCarthy & Stone is Britain’s leading retirement builder and offers a choice of different types of retirement developments that includes Retirement Living, Assisted Living and Tailored Care Living. While most of us would like to remain in our family home for as long as possible, as we get older, it [...]
Later Life Conference Draws Capacity Crowd
Public Service Events’ third annual Later Life conference drew a capacity crowd to hear from a programme of excellent speakers and interactive masterclass sessions, and to take advantage of great networking opportunities in the packed exhibition areas. Integration was the central theme of the day, with delegates particularly fascinated by a presentation from NHS Wandsworth [...]
Yorkshire Bank Funded Care Home To Create New Jobs
A £1.5 million project to convert a 19th century building into a high-end residential care home is set to create up to 35 full and part-time jobs in the West Midlands. Rectory Care Limited is renovating the former St Cuthbert’s rectory in Donnington, Albrighton, into a 31-bedroom care home, backed by funding [...]
Managing The Financial Affairs Of Vulnerable Adults-Your Turn To Take Part Or Learn
Professional Deputies are presenting a WebiShare (in collaboration with Zeida Lane) on February 20th at 14:00, around the subject of ‘Managing the financial affairs of vulnerable adults’. WebiShare is an East Sussex County Council Commissioning Grant funded project which is part of Zeida Lane’s larger Person Centred Approaches Project. WebiShare is [...]
TECHNOGYM Works With Care Homes To Improve The Health & Wellbeing Of Residents
TECHNOGYM works with Care Homes to improve the health and wellbeing of residents CASE STUDY: J’s story For over 25 years, Technogym, a global leader in Wellness equipment and services, has been spreading its Wellness lifestyle philosophy, a way of life based on regular physical activity, a positive approach to life and healthy eating habits. [...]
Planning Granted for Windsor Care Village
Planning approval has been awarded for the construction of new retirement homes in Windsor town centre. Niche care village specialist Retirement and Care Village Partners (RCVP) will develop a major care community for 150 new homes for senior citizens in the Royal Borough. Situated on one of the town’s most prominent sites [...]
MHA Complete Refurb’ Of Scottish Care Village
Care Consultants Ltd has completed a major refurbishment of 2 of MHA’s care homes on the prestigious Lesmahagow Care Village site, Nr Glasgow. The work was sensitively undertaken in two operational homes. Working with experienced designers and contractors CCL were able to ensure that the homes stayed operational throughout the 7 month programme. [...]
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 [...]
Improve Monitoring Across Care
The English Community Care Association, the leading representative charity for care providers has commented on the CQC’s suggestion that hospitals should keep the dossier on people who are admitted from care homes with malnutrition or hydration issues. Martin Green, Chief Executive of ECCA, says: “There is a need for improved monitoring across the [...]
Age UK Warns Of Dangerously Cold Weather
This weeks cold weather has seen the Met Office issue its first England-wide Level 3 Cold Weather Alert of the winter. The alert was issued because of the expected frosty nights and low daytime temperatures. We have already seen temperatures as low as -6.2C in Pershore, Worcestershire, -6.1C in South Farnborough, Hampshire and [...]
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 [...]
New Charity Division for Age UK
Age UK has announced the creation of a new division which brings together its Influencing and Services work. The move is designed to respond to an external environment in which the need to integrate research, policy creation and service delivery is needed now more than ever – for example in the current debate [...]
Cutting Edge Technology Saves Money
IT company Zest Solutions launches a budget busting tool to help businesses save money and time in this period of bottom line focus with an online business consumables store called Your Zest Online. The online store satisfies the more budget conscious of companies who are looking to curb the increasing price of [...]
Dignity Action Day-What are you doing?
Every year in February, the SCIE charity, Social Care Institute for Excellence http://www.dignityincare.org.uk/DAD/ ask professionals in the health and social care sector and indeed the general public, to give up some time to help make a difference to someone’s life who is either in care or receiving care services. This year, the team [...]
Alzheimer’s Society Comment On Crisis Report
Today (Monday, 30 January), Age UK launches its Care in Crisis report which shows that spending on social care for older people in England has fallen by half a billion pounds since 2010. Age UK’s projected figures show that the government ought to be spending £7.8 billion this year in order [...]
Castlebeck Announces Action Plan
Castlebeck, the specialist provider of healthcare services, today announced details of an Action Plan to make fundamental changes and improvements to its care services across the UK. The Action Plan is Castlebeck’s response to the Panorama Programme into one of its facilities – Winterbourne View. The implementation of the Action Plan is already [...]
ECCA Call CQC To Identify & Share Good Practice
The English Community Care Association (ECCA), the leading representative charity for independent care providers, has responded to the current CQC consultation on proposed changes to the judgement framework and enforcement policy with a plea to balance what appears to be a regular diet of bad news from CQC about the [...]
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 [...]
Baroness Greengross raises Hydration question in House of Lords
November 2011 On the 7th November Baroness Greengross tabled a question in the House of Lords to ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have plans to implement a hydration policy in hospitals and care homes. The responses reflected the view that the implementation of policies would not have the desired effect, would [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Do You Understand Your Market? Why You Should Care?
Marketing- It’s a funny old word and it can bring to mind all sorts of pictures but it’s definitely the way forward for care operators and their owners, big or small- group size I mean! The world has changed a lot and so has care. The old Victorian vicarage run by the [...]
£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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
CQC’s Responds To The Health Select Committee Report
The Committee’s report highlights the major challenges CQC has faced in merging three existing regulators, setting up a new regulatory model, and registering more than 39,000 provider locations – including previously unregulated sectors – against aggressive Parliamentary deadlines and with a 30% budget reduction . We know registration has been a difficult [...]
The State Of The UK Care Industry
If you were to look in a mirror and ask yourself if the provision for care in the UK is; 1. Good enough for you or a loved one? 2. Affordable and accessible to you? 3. Fit for the aspirations & expectations of future generations? If you could [...]
When Care Comes Under Scrutiny
Following the continued argument as to whether the Good Care Guide will deliver a service which is good for the care operator and the public, I thought I’d look at various other comparison sites for care and there are plenty. Some of these allow comments from care users and their families. Others have descriptions supplied [...]