RECENT NEWS

Bupa’s Hill View Care Home is planning to install a new tuck shop, thanks to a generous donation from a Clydebank pub.

A new online resource has been introduced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) to offer practical guidance on how to engage residents in creative arts, such as dance, puppetry and digital arts.

Theraposture has launched a dynamic new website so professionals and consumers have easier access to its comprehensive guidance regarding appropriate adjustable beds, chairs and care cots.

Working hand in hand to create residential care homes that are as individual as their residents are Four Seasons Health Care (FSHC) and British manufacturer Teal Living.

CQC, alongside a number of partners, has published a new good practice resource, Equally Outstanding, exploring how a focus on equality and human rights can help to improve quality of care.

The National Association of Care Catering (NACC) has announced the shortlist of finalists for the NACC Awards 2017.

The Care Quality Commission has found the quality of care provided by Risby Park Nursing Home, in Bury St Edmunds, to be 'outstanding' following an inspection in July.

Chubb Fire & Security Limited’s Community Care business has won a major new service and maintenance contract to help protect more than 2,500 elderly and vulnerable residents in Charnwood Borough Council.

A new initiative at a Coventry care home has been helping the staff to make dreams come true for its residents.

Purley Park Trust, a charity based in Purley on Thames near Reading that provides care services to over 80 people in the local community, has starting using Engagement Multiplier to support its strategy of delivering an excellent standard of care.

A care home in Uddingston is offering a unique form of musical therapy which has residents singing its praises, and now it’s calling out to the local community to get involved.

A care home in Oxfordshire has been rated 'outstanding' in all five areas by the Care Quality Commission following an inspection in July.

Residents at Hartismere Place care home in Eye were joined by pupils from St Peter and St Paul CEVA Primary School to take part in a Dementia Friends information session.

A manager from a Glasgow care home has helped educate others on developing a successful career in the care industry, by giving a guest lecture at a top Scottish university.

The British Healthcare Trades Association (BHTA) has launched a guide to draw attention to the treatment of pressure ulcers, the treatment of which cost the NHS in excess of 2.6 billion per annum.

A Legionella Awareness Day campaign has uncovered that over 1300 cases of Legionella have been reported in the UK since 2014, listing Greater London, Greater Manchester and Nottinghamshire as three of the areas most affected.

Councillor Iftikhar Chaudhri, Mayor of Runnymede, and Nick Sanderson, CEO of Audley, have officially broken ground at Audley Cooper’s Hill, the luxury retirement village in Englefield Green.

Writer and TV personality Lady Colin Campbell was guest of honour at the opening of new facilities at a Hastings care home.

Residents and staff at HC-One’s Acacia Court received a visit from local MP Stuart Andrew recently to take a tour of the care home.

Specialist business property adviser Christie & Co has completed on a deal with New Care, which will see LNT Construction build a state of the art 66 bedroom care facility in Wilford, Nottingham for the care home operator.