RECENT NEWS

Millennium Care Group is celebrating after all six of its Lancashire care homes were awarded ‘good’ ratings by the Care Quality Commission.

Following a public consultation last year, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has outlined the fees that providers of health and adult social care in England will be charged from April 2017 to recover the costs of their regulation.

While assistive technology has rapidly developed in recent years, an exhibition and conference at the University of Cumbria that brought together industry and care providers heard how advances could hold the key to meeting the demand for better care in the future.

Barchester Healthcare has chosen to partner with Hart Learning & Development (Hart L&D) to meet their apprenticeship requirements in a deal signed on the first day of National Apprenticeship Week 2017.

Clegg Construction has won a second multi-million pound contract with a care home provider.

Alison O’Sullivan, a former president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services and former director of children’s, adults and social services at Kirklees and Bradford, has been appointed as the new chair of the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE).

A new luxury care home being constructed in Woking is utilising Durapipe HTA pipework for the domestic hot and cold water services.

Geberit Sigma and Geberit Omega frames and flush plates have added style and functionality to the washrooms at Bentley House, an award winning care home in Hertfordshire.

One of the country’s most innovative care providers is celebrating after being recognised at the highest possible level with a nomination for a prestigious award.

Infection control company, Bio-Rite, has announced it has extended its services to Scotland; Simon Grey and Graeme Sim who run Bio-Rite for Scotland now offer a range of decontamination services to hospitals and care homes throughout the region.

A care provider that failed in its duty to provide safe care and treatment has been ordered to pay £82,429.72 in fines and costs by Liverpool Magistrates’ Court.

A care provider which had failed repeatedly to comply with national standards, relating to the assessment and monitoring of the quality of service they provided, has been issued with a fine totalling £4,000 by the Care Quality Commission

Greenbanks Nursing Home in Liphook, Hampshire, has been purchased by care provider Kindred Care, which operates throughout the south east of England.

Specialist business property adviser, Christie & Co has brokered the letting of the former Dowe House care home in Blackheath, London on behalf of Merchant Taylors’ Consolidated Charities for the Infirm.

A care provider that has failed in its duty to provide safe care and treatment, will appear before Liverpool Magistrates’ Court, on Monday 6 March at 2pm following guilty pleas to 14 offences.

Specialist business transfer agent DC Care has completed the sale of Clarendon Mews Care Limited, which includes Clarendon Mews care home, in the centre of Leicester for an undisclosed sum.

A woman who has spent her life in far-flung places has celebrated her 100th birthday at a Dundee retirement housing development.

When Primetower Care wanted the interior of its latest 68 bed new build care home, The Lindsay, to look more homely with a sympathetic nod to its architectural style, Shackletons and HomeSmiths interior design collaborated to create it.

Infection control company and franchisor Bio-Rite is driving down infection with its mobile decontamination units.

Tenants at a housing development in the capital are to be among the first to try out and provide invaluable feedback on a pioneering new wheelchair.