Dementia Champion Awarded Churchill Medallion
Tracy Paine, award- winning dementia design champion, and deputy chief executive of care village operator Belong, has been honoured with the prestigious Churchill Medallion at…
Read more...Tracy Paine, award- winning dementia design champion, and deputy chief executive of care village operator Belong, has been honoured with the prestigious Churchill Medallion at…
Read more...Jeremy Hunt, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, announced yesterday that the long awaited Green Paper on social care funding is to…
Read more...Encore Care Homes undertook a series of acts of kindness during national Carers Week, at its homes in Bournemouth and Christchurch, to say thank you…
Read more...Responding to the keynote speech by Theresa May on funding for the NHS, Cllr Izzi Seccombe, Chairman of the Local Government Association’s Community Wellbeing Board,…
Read more...Labour and Tory ministers have called on the government to make social ‘free at the point of need’. The Lord Darzi Review of Health and Social…
Read more...Public Health England has today announced dementia prevention messaging will be a routine part of the NHS Health Check for people in midlife. Previously, this…
Read more...Care home staff are being encouraged to think ‘Is my resident well?’ as part of a new training programme to help spot the early warning…
Read more...Worried providers say social care has again been deprived of the funding lifeline it needs despite more shock evidence of r the crisis in social…
Read more...The Harlequin Strummers for entertained staff and residents at the Riverdale Court at a recent Alzheimer’s Cupcake Day The successful and entertaining morning was also…
Read more...Care England, the largest representative body for independent care providers for adult social care has welcome the Home Office’s announcement that all nurses will be exempted…
Read more...Representatives of approximately half of all organisations who provide care services to people with learning disabilities in the UK have written to the Chair of…
Read more...Loved ones lost in the past year have been remembered during a day of reflection and celebration at care homes in the South. Family-owned Colten…
Read more...A study published today in Age and Ageing, the scientific journal of the British Geriatrics Society, found that despite death rates in the UK now…
Read more...The NHS has announced thie week plans to improve patient care by cutting long stays in hospitals. Speaking at the annual NHS Confederation conference at…
Read more...A Scarborough nursing home is bringing joy into the lives of its residents by welcoming young children through its doors. Saint Cecilia’s Nursing Home regularly…
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