RECENT NEWS

Continuing its focus on free professional education, Etac is now delivering overhead hoisting problem solving workshops.

The Royal Star & Garter Homes has been named as a finalist in the prestigious Student Nursing Times Awards.

The team at a brand new care home where the first residents only moved in just before Christmas has already embraced Care UK’s wishing tree initiative by fulfilling a life long wish to feed a real penguin.

Alongside a programme of inspirational talks, The Future of Care Conference is also set to host two engaging panel debates, giving delegates the chance to discuss current topics and have their questions answered by those at the forefront of the industry on Tuesday 19 March at The King’s Fund in London.

On Monday 4 March Australian Sage Tour delegates enjoyed a visit to Royal Hospital Chelsea for a day of information exchange and a tour of the unique care model provided by Royal Hospital Chelsea.

Scott Beat, husband and father of three from Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, has joined the board of national charity Barchester’s Charitable Foundation.

Borough Care residents and staff marked Shrove Tuesday with lots of pancake fun; the catering staff at each of Borough Care’s 11 homes in Stockport put on pancake themed events for residents to enjoy.

Champagne corks were popping as members, residents and staff at Meresworth care home in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire celebrated the reopening of their much loved day care centre.

The Manor House Harrogate care home has been shortlisted in the Healthcare Design Awards; the 87 room home opened to residents in November and provides residential, dementia and respite care.

Staff and residents at Buxton Lodge care home in Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey are celebrating after receiving a glowing report from the Care Quality Commission (CQC), which rated the care home 'good' in all areas.

Residents at a care home in Bearsden are proving it’s never too late to learn a new language by taking up French lessons.

The elderly care division of the Dignus Group Limited, which owns and operates a group of four established care homes across the West Midlands has been sold to RD Capital Partners.

Celebrations were in order as Gracewell of Woking, on Streets Heath, marked its first anniversary.

HC-One is celebrating after taking home the prestigious Skills for Care accolade for ‘Best endorsed provider of learning and development’.

Registration is now live for Care Roadshows 2019; returning to five locations across the country, the organisers anticipate another successful year of networking, inspirational ideas and best practice advice.

Monica Budge is MHA’s oldest retirement living resident when it comes to living independently with just a little support from care staff as she marked her 106th birthday.

Borough Care, the largest not-for-profit provider of care for older people in Stockport, has appointed Lee Omar to its board of directors.

Wymondham care home, Windmill House, has achieved an ‘outstanding’ status following a recent inspection by the Care Quality Commission.

Barchester Healthcare has made it through to the final stages of the Pinders Healthcare Design Awards for the design of The Spires Care Home in Lichfield, which opened in 2018.

A family-run care home has been sentenced after a resident fell down a set of stairs and later died as a result.