Month: March 2016

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has unveiled plans to make the UK the most dementia friendly society in the world by 2020. In the absence of…

TEENAGERS from the Sheffield Wednesday National Citizen Service (NCS) Youth Board entertained the elderly as part of NCS Action Day.  Residents at The Laurels and…

On March 3rd, Richard Kirton and Ian Cannon from North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust fought off competition from seven other hospital chef teams…

Responding to a National Audit Office report on personalised commissioning in adult social care, Cllr Izzi Seccombe, LGA Community and Wellbeing spokesperson, said: “Personal budgets…

The Orders of St John Care Trust – one of the UK’s largest not-for-profit care home providers – is collaborating with The Courtyard, Hereford to…

National care home operator, Maria Mallaband Care Group and Countrywide Care Homes are set to launch their second annual awards. Voting commenced on 22nd February…

Dan Bree, Head Chef at Hartwood House in Lyndhurst, has been shortlisted as one the Nation’s top 5 Chefs in Care at the Cost Sector…

As if the advent of the organisation’s 175th anniversary wasn’t enough, the team at the Royal Association for Deaf people (RAD) have had another reason…

Topping off a fantastic first year, residents, family and the staff of Silk Healthcare’s 84-bedroom care home in Colne, Lancashire took time to reflect on…

Great Grandmother Elsie Jackson was the toast of Belvedere Manor care home when she celebrated her 101st birthday. Bouquets of flowers flooded into the home…

A new initiative has been set up to give employees of a Lancashire-based care group a bigger say in the way the organisation is run….

412 mile cycling challenge brings ‘purpose’ and ‘immense joy’ to care home resident with cerebral palsy 63 year-old Rhoda Gourlay, who has cerebral palsy and…

Specialist care village, Belong Atherton, has partnered with Wigan and Leigh Hospice to launch the Hospice in Your Care Home scheme in a bid to…

The residential care sector is willing and ready to help with the bed blocking crisis in the NHS says GMB GMB, the union for care…