Care Industry “Dismay” To Today’s Budget
The adult social care sector has greeted Chancellor’s budget today with dismay citing that the Chancellor had missed an opportunity to fundamentally reform adult social…
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Managing Isolation in Care Homes During the COVID-19 Crisis
Simon Kezic-Williams, operations director at Shaw healthcare, comments on the potential damage of long-term social isolation in care homes because of the pandemic
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Sector Calls For Chancellor Tackle Social Care Crisis
Social care leaders from Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) , Care England, and National Care Forum (NCF) are calling on the government
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Tameside Resident Makes Leaps And Bounds In Her Incredible Walking Recovery
A Resident at HC-One’s Millbrook care home in Stalybridge is making tremendous steps in her recovery after an accident left her unable to walk as well as she previously could.
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Brook House Residents Show Appreciation To Their Carer’s
The residents of Brook House Care Home recently got creative as they showed appreciation to the people who care for them.
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New Arrival To The Care Home Sector As Urban Village Capital Announce Plans For £8.5m Facility In Wigan
Urban Village Capital will complete a purpose-built development in the care home sector in April 2022 – an £8.5m scheme in Wigan.
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Care Home Deaths Pass 30,000 Milestone
But the weekly total keeps falling
Care providers today mourned the 30,000 lives that have been lost in care and nursing homes and prayed that the ongoing fall in Covid-19 fatalities continues.
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2021 is the Year to Take Stock of Training Following COVID-19 Restrictions
By Peter Bewert, Managing Director of Meaningful Care Matters
As we enter a new year full of hope and possibility, it is the optimal time to reflect
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Loneliness: The New Epidemic in the Wake of COVID-19
by Steve Morgan, Partnership Director, Agilisys (www.agilisys.co.uk)
UNDER PRESSURE IN A PANDEMIC
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Care Home Staff And Families Support Plymouth Foodbank
Staff and families of residents at dementia care home Butterfly Lodge in St Budeaux, Plymouth, have been coming together to collect items for Plymouth Foodbank.
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Covid-Related Care Home Resident Deaths Continue To Fall
Care home resident deaths involving Covid-19 in England and Wales fell by 35 per cent on the previous week, according to the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) data.
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Veterans Mark St David’s Day With Daffodils, Traditional Food And Poetry
St David’s Day has been marked at Royal Star & Garter’s three Homes.
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HC-One Announces Proposed Sale Of 52 Care Homes
The UK’s largest care provider HC-One which runs 328 care homes for an estimated 14,000 residents, has revealed it is putting 52 of them up for sale and is planning to close four.
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Care Home Enables 85 And 91 Year-Old To Wed
An 85-year-old care home resident married his 91-year-old sweetheart of 26 years after a senior registrar was given special powers to enable it the nuptials to go ahead.
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Cornwall Care Cost Calculations Criticised
The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman is reminding councils that people can spend their money as they wish, within reason
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