Finalists for Region’s Healthcare Innovation Awards Revealed
The North of England’s most promising healthcare innovators have been revealed as the shortlist for the Bright Ideas in Health Awards 2017 is announced. Now…
Read more...
Author: Editor
Desperate Plea for Funds to Tackle Health and Care Crisis Made by Coalition
A last desperate plea for additional funds to tackle the growing crisis in health and care services ahead of next month’s Budget is being made…
Read more...
CQC Seeks Views on How Providers Should Pay Their Regulatory Fees in 2018/19
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) are seeking views on new proposals for how they should calculate the fees that providers of health and adult social…
Read more...
Memory Walk for Care Home Resident with Dementia
A CARE home resident with dementia has helped raise funds for the Alzheimer’s Society by taking part in a three-mile memory walk. Audrey Bracewell, who…
Read more...
Half of UK Workers Aged 40-64 Won’t Have Enough Money to Retire
Half of all workers aged 40-64 – nearly eight million people – do not expect to have enough money to stop work and retire when…
Read more...
Care Home Football Fans Head to the Home of English Football
National home care provider HC-One has been pulling out all the stops to make residents wishes come true at Aston House Care Home in Hayes….
Read more...
£2,000 Donation Boosts Bield in Kirkintilloch
A generous donation of £2,000 will ensure that people living with dementia in Kinkintilloch can continue to enjoy dining…
Read more...
Bupa Set to Sell Up to Half its Care Homes in £450 Million Deal
Healthcare group, Bupa, is set to sell almost half of its care homes in a deal that is expected be in the region of £450…
Read more...
St Monica Trust Announces Legacy for Hit Channel 4 Show
The Bristol-based charity featured in Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds has announced it will be creating a nursery at one of its retirement…
Read more...
Residents and Relatives Rate Care Home ‘Excellence’
More than half the residents and relatives who responded to a care home provider’s annual survey have rated its services as ‘excellent’. Family-owned Colten Care,…
Read more...
Retirees Leaving Sociable Workplaces May Experience Accelerated Cognitive Decline
A study published recently in Age and Ageing, the scientific journal of the British Geriatrics Society, provides new evidence that workers retiring from occupations…
Read more...
Half of Older Patients’ Families Struggle to Complain About Poor Care in Hospital
Older vulnerable people are often reliant on relatives to raise concerns when things go wrong in hospital, yet over half (51%) of family members with…
Read more...
Carer Communicates with Partner Using Coughs, Eye Contact and Toy’s Because of Rare Dementia
Adele Lootes, 42, is the primary carer for her partner Lance Mills, 49, who was diagnosed with behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in 2012, when…
Read more...
The Royal Star & Garter Homes Receives Level 1 Kitemark for Exceptional Dementia Care
The Royal Star & Garter Homes is proud to announce that both the Charity’s Homes’ have been awarded the Level 1 Kitemark by…
Read more...
Leading Dentists Issue Warning on Over 65’s Dental Care
Leading dentists have warned there is an urgent need to improve oral healthcare for older people. The Faculty of Dental Surgery at the Royal…
Read more...