RECENT NEWS

A care home manager has spent a night sleeping rough in Preston town centre as part of a move to raise awareness and money for the homeless as we enter the coldest season of the year.

The National Association of Care Catering (NACC) has launched its 2017 search for the UK’s best chef working in the care sector.

Eric Wright Construction, part of the Eric Wright Group, has completed a multi-million pound project to build two extra care schemes in Stoke-on-Trent.

Specialist business property adviser, Christie & Co has brokered the sale of Broughton Lodge Care Home in Burnham-on-Sea.

An employee at an Ayrshire care home has become one of the first care workers to complete an NHS initiative, primarily set up for ward nurses.

The British Geriatrics Society (BGS) has called for everyone who commissions or provides healthcare in care homes to follow the principles of good practice set out in its new guidelines to ensure every resident has access to high quality healthcare that fully meets their needs.

The New Deanery and St Mary’s Court residential care homes near Braintree are celebrating having won two prestigious National Care Awards at a glittering ceremony in London.

The Care Quality Commission has found the quality of care provided by The Byars Nursing Home in Caythorpe, Nottingham, to be 'Outstanding' overall following an inspection carried out in September.

Older people have been personalising their walking frames as part of Essex County Council’s unique Pimp My Zimmer campaign.

A Bristol-based healthcare company has won a prestigious national award for how its innovative technology has transformed methods of managing medicines for care home residents.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has announced that Jane Mordue has been appointed as the chair of Healthwatch England (the independent ‘consumer champion’ in health and care) and as a non-executive Board member.

Infection control company and franchisor, Bio-Rite, has announced it is expanding into Yorkshire. Drew Heald and his business partner Darrian Lewis, will now provide Bio-Rite’s comprehensive decontamination services to clients including the NHS and care homes in the region.

WCS Care’s new £10.5 million state-of-the-art specialist dementia care home in Kenilworth played host to the Rt Hon Norman Lamb MP, as part of his whistle-stop visit around Warwickshire.

A luxury care home for older people has been rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Four daring staff members from a Linlithgow very sheltered housing development have taken a huge leap to raise £1,200 for charity.

Dr Eileen Burns, the new president of the British Geriatrics Society, has called for public recognition that older people facing delays in discharge from hospital are the victims of under funding of social care and not ‘the problem’.

Specialist business property adviser, Christie & Co has sold Spurfield House in Exminster near Exeter on behalf of Guinness Care & Support.

Across the UK, innovative collaborations between GPs and specialist geriatricians are paving the way to better care for older people with frailty.

MHA has launched a fundraising campaign to support its ground breaking music therapy treatment for people living with dementia.

Yeovil's first luxury care community has opened its doors and is preparing to welcome its new residents.