Month: July 2014

Central Government will commit to buying locally-sourced food through a new food and drink buying standard, which will aim to cut waste, according to newly-appointed…

While fees paid last year saw a small uplift (though still failing to match inflation) which provided some respite to operators, this year’s findings signal…

Research from older people’s charity, Independent Age, has been used in Parliament to highlight the issue of unfair care home top-up fees. Thousands of families…

A Droitwich man has helped raise more than £50,000 for a group of disabled residents at a Birmingham care home over the last ten years,…

Stocks Hall Nursing & Care home in Skelmersdale held a special party to celebrate Prince George’s first birthday. People living at the home enjoyed a fabulous…

Javelin superstar and Commonwealth Games medal hopeful Goldie Sayers will draw Alzheimer’s Research UK’s Annual Raffle in host city Glasgow next month. The popular athlete…

Care Minister Norman Lamb has said he is ‘delighted’ with CMG’s latest initiative, which ensures the learning disabilities services provider continues to put the people…

The Independent Age ‘End the Secret Subsidy’ campaign revealed that around three-quarters of councils are failing to protect families from paying unnecessary ‘top-up’ fees for…

The Treasury’s unprecedented pension shake-up has been rebuffed as “well-intentioned but riddled with unintended adverse consequences” by the boss of one of the world’s largest…

Care home Activities Coordinator, Lauren Hyder, has won the Margaret Butterworth Award 2014 for excellence in dementia care, it was announced at last week’s award…

The Registered Nursing Home Association (RNHA) has called on Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt for reassurance that his hospital-style ‘special measures’ regime for failing care homes,…

The Office of National Statistics (ONS) has released data highlighting the hospice sector’s role in providing the UK’s best care for people at the end…

An eight-week course which provides education, stress relief and emotional support for dementia carers is the first cost-effective programme to reduce anxiety and depression for…

New figures from Age UK show that since June 2010, an estimated 1,928,255 bed days have been lost to the NHS at a cost of…

New figures from Age UK show that since June 2010, an estimated 1,928,255 bed days have been lost to the NHS at a cost of…