RECENT NEWS

​Students from a Glasgow theatre school recently teamed up with a local Bearsden care home to create a unique, musical performance inspired by residents’ memories.

Maria Ball, chief executive of Quantum Care, has become the new chair of the National Care Forum (NCF).

Abbotswood Court Care Home has hosted The Mountbatten School's Business Patrons' Club, enabling the school to continue building its relationships with local businesses.

Award winning care provider, Hallmark Care Homes, has acquired Ty Porth, a former Embrace Group care home in Rhondda Cynon Taf.

The revolutionary WHILL powerchair from TGA Mobility has been highly commended within the Best Product Category at The BHTA Annual Awards Dinner.

The Care Quality Commission has found the quality of care provided by Highwell House Care Home with Nursing to be 'outstanding' following an inspection in July.

Theresa May took time out of her busy schedule to help one of her constituents to celebrate a very special birthday.

A care home manager from Greenock is celebrating after being named the joint winner of a prestigious nursing leadership award.

A green fingered Blackwood tenant is celebrating after winning the housing and care provider’s ‘Best Garden’ award.

The NACC Care Chef of the Year 2018 competition is now officially open for entries; the National Association of Care Catering’s (NACC) prestigious culinary competition seeks out the nation’s best chef working in the care sector.

The Ocean Hotel in the popular seaside town of Sandown, Isle of Wight, has been sold has been acquired by The Care Home Group Limited.

The Care Quality Commission has found the quality of care provided by Crescent Nursing Home in Bedfordshire to be 'outstanding' following an inspection in September.

The CareTech Charitable Foundation, the first independent grant-making charitable corporate foundation in the care sector, has appointed its first CEO.

BES Rehab Ltd, a Bristol based healthcare company, has raised £100,000 for the purpose of reaching directly the families of those affected by dementia and learning difficulties in the UK.

Southmoor Lodge, part of Jasmine Healthcare, has invested in the latest nurse call technology from Medicare Systems for the much improved South Moor Lodge Care Home in Walkeringham.

With Christmas markets a firm festive favourite, a care home in Glasgow has found a novel way to make sure that residents don’t miss out, by setting up a market inside the home.

The Care Quality Commission has found the quality of care provided by Forest Hill in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, to be 'outstanding' following an inspection in August.

Senior carer, Matt Byres, has won Abbotswood Court care home's quarterly ‘You Make The Difference' award, nominated and voted for by carers, residents, their families and visitors

New research undertaken by MHA, one of the largest charities for older people in Britain, indicates that those aged over 75 years old only have meaningful contact for 80 per cent of the week.

In October 2016, Care England issued judicial review proceedings against Essex County Council challenging its decision setting the fee rates it would pay to independent care home providers during the year 2016/17.