Care providers have been requested to strengthen checks, maintenance and staff training for patient hoists and slings after the medicines’ regulator The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) warned that preventable falls…

A touching surprise brought tears of joy to former nurse Maura O’Shea when four of her former nursing colleagues staged a surprise reunion.

The Department of Health and Social Care has launched the search for England’s first national dementia tsar, following sustained pressure from charities calling for dementia…

Nellsar, a family-run group of Care Homes, is celebrating prestigious Gold Standards Framework (GSF) recognition for delivering outstanding, compassionate end-of-life care, with five Homes recognised and two achieving perfect assessment scores.

A care home provider has featured a former James Bond actress in a training video designed to help staff make better informed assessments about residents’…

Care homes across the country are being invited to roll out the red carpet, dust off their dancing shoes and get into the Care Sector’s…

Councils struggling with high-cost services will benefit from a funding boost to help modernise services, harness AI and reduce their reliance on emergency support. A…

The summer may start with Gloucestershire’s notorious bone-breaking Cheese Rolling on Cooper’s Hill – but at least one Cotswold cheese rolling tradition now ends rather more safely, with a 90-year-old care home resident taking the title.

A chef who works at a dementia nursing home has recently completed a half marathon, raising £345 for Alzheimer’s Society, despite having broken her ankle just months before the Okehampton Steam Challenge was due to take place.

Dementia care has been branded as “stuck in the 20th century” in a new report calling for a transformation on the scale of the progress…