Happy New Year from The Carer!
We would like to wish all readers of The Carer a very happy and prosperous New Year! We hope that 2019 has been a healthy
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Healthcare Roles Dominate the Top 10 Fastest Growing Jobs of 2019
Staff shortages in health and social care have led the sector to dominate a ranking of the top 10 fastest growing jobs in 2019, according
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Centenarians Celebrate Birthday Bonanza at Czajka Care Group
Special messages from Buckingham Palace are becoming commonplace at a Yorkshire care group, with seven of its residents having all celebrated significant birthdays this year.
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CQC Reports on Safe Use of Radiation in Health Care Settings
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) work to enforce the Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations in England has been published. The report gives a breakdown of
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Royal Star & Garter Governor Receives MBE in Queen’s New Year’s Honours List
A long-standing Governor at Royal Star & Garter has been made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queen’s New
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Residents Winning Designs Revealed by Councillor Lt Col George Barton at Rectory House
Councillor Lt Col George Barton visited local homes this week as part of his Christmas events schedule and kindly agreed to visit residents and colleagues
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TV Repeats and Seasonal Songs Can Help People with Dementia
While many of us might get a bit bored of the same old Christmas films, TV repeats and seasonal songs being rolled out each year,
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Official Opening of Caring Homes’ Broadbridge Park
Broadbridge Park, the latest new developments by Caring Homes, was officially opened with guests being treated and enetertained by an acapella quartet and a pianist
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Free NHS Car Parking to End Unfair Charges for Staff, Parents and Carers
Free NHS car parking for those in greatest need to begin roll-out across England from April 2020 Blue badge holders, frequent outpatient attenders, parents of
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A Very Merry Christmas to Readers of The Carer
We’d like to take this opportunity to wish all readers of The Carer a very merry, (and healthy!), Christmas. We will return after the festive
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Christmas Comes Early to Care Home with Therapy Animal Visit
Therapy pony Blossom made a festive visit to Banstead-based maritime charity, The Royal Alfred Seafarers’ Society, to interact with residents as part of an animal
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Burma Veteran ‘Lucky to Survive WW2’ Celebrates 101st Birthday at Royal Star & Garter
An Army veteran who says it was ‘pure luck’ that he survived the Second World War has celebrated his 101st birthday. Geoff Smith spent the
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How the Government Can Sort Social Care
ADASS President Julie Ogley is calling on the Government to make adult social care a top domestic priority in a letter to the Prime Minister
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Nonagenarian Ice Skaters: Senior Care Home Residents Treated to an ‘Ice’ Day out at Hampton Court Palace
A group of senior care home residents – including one in her 90s – and staff from CHD Living’s White Gates Nursing Home wrapped up
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Hallmark Care Homes Awarded Second ‘Outstanding’ CQC rating
Kew House Care Home in Wimbledon has become the second Hallmark care home to receive an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the Care Quality Commission. The health
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