RECENT NEWS

Orchard Care Homes has completed its line-up of senior staff by hiring Cheryl Baird as director of quality and Neil Ward as group marketing manager.

The new Dementia, Care & Nursing Home Expo dates have been confirmed as the 9-10 November at NEC, Birmingham.

On International Women’s Day 2020, Nirmala Singhvi, manager of Victoria House day centre for the elderly in Watford, received the Community Impact Award. The award was presented by a local organisation, One Vision Project, which was set up to create better everyday life for the people of Watford, and particularly supports the vulnerable, promote equality and address injustice.

Brockington House, part of Dormy Care communities, has won an award at the Pinder Healthcare Awards. The accolade seeks to acknowledge the contribution these properties make to the wellbeing and quality of life for those in their care.

Holmes Care Group has finalised a long-term partnership with Impact Healthcare REIT, in which nine of its properties in Scotland will be acquired by Impact Healthcare REIT and leased back to Holmes Care. This deal will see Impact provide a cash injection of £47.5m to Holmes Care Group, who will continue to operate all of the homes as before.

Roselands Residential Home in Heyside Royton, a peaceful residential suburb of Oldham, Lancashire, has been sold.

Encore Care Homes is proud to announce the appointment of a new care home manager, who brings more than 35 years of healthcare management experience to the role.

Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra met veterans at the official opening of Royal Star & Garter’s care home in High Wycombe.

Care UK Residential Care Services has become the only care home provider in the country to be shortlisted in any of the three categories of the UK Employee Experience Awards.

Belvedere Manor care home in Colne is celebrating after independent inspectors rated its service ‘good’ following a recent visit.

Residents at RMBI Care Co home, Prince George Duke of Kent Court in Chislehurst, were among the first in the country to try new cutting edge Yeti technology.

Vida Hall, a care home owned by Harrogate-based specialist dementia care provider Vida Healthcare, has secured an outstanding rating from the Care Quality Commission for the second time since its opening in 2013.

Headingley Hall care home in north Leeds, which is run by the award-winning Westward Care group, is celebrating achieving ‘outstanding’ status following its recent inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Developers have broken ground on a new 70-bed care home being built in Bingham, Nottinghamshire.

A Hertfordshire care home has teamed up with a local school to form friendships the old fashioned way by sharing letters to mark National Make a Friend Day 2020.

A groundbreaking ceremony has been held to mark the start of construction work on a new residential care home in Bingham in Nottinghamshire.

Residents from Borough Care’s Meadway Court in Bramhall recently visited the Wonderland Festival at St Michael and All Angels Church.

Care home staffing marketplace Florence has been chosen for a major UK programme for start-ups.

A pair of young entrepreneurs have developed a revolutionary smart sensor that will help to wage war on the deadly Legionella bug.

A Care UK initiative to fulfil the wishes of residents living in its 125 care homes led to the arrival of two rather unusual visitors this week.