An extra 60 million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine have been secured by the UK government to help support the booster Covid-19 vaccination programme beginning from the Autumn.
Read more...There were double celebrations at Winchester’s Tegfield House Care Home in when two of its residents enjoyed their 100th and 90th birthdays on the same…
Read more...The National Care Forum has created a new partnership with The Institute of Health and Social Care Management (IHSCM) for the benefit of its members.
Read more...Sir Andrew Strauss, the ex-England cricket captain who lost his wife to lung cancer, has backed an NHS and Public Health England campaign urging people to get checked if they test negative for Covid-19
Read more...Margaret, a Resident from Chaseview Care Home in Burntwood, Staffordshire, has won HC-One’s ‘Wednesday Wisdom’ initiative for sharing her wise words, The ‘Wednesday Wisdom’ initiative…
Read more...A woman living in Elmcroft Nursing Home in Shoreham-By-Sea has celebrated her 100th birthday with a tea party.
Muriel Murray, known to her friends as Peggy, was born in Surrey on April 14 1921, and has lived at the home since last year.
Read more...Informal pilot study with football legend Alan Shearer also begins
Alzheimer’s Society is delighted to announce that former world-leading rugby players, Shane Williams and Ben Kay
Read more...Proposals to introduce mandatory vaccination for care staff are an “appalling” idea, a specialist care leader has said. The comment came from Neil Russell, head…
Read more...This year’s Care Home Open Week is set to take place from the 28th June – 4th July 2021. The event encourages care homes across the country to create a fun event that helps to showcase what goes on in the UK’s many fantastic care homes.
Read more...Care England has co-signed an open letter to the Prime Minister calling for a 1948 moment for adult social care to establish a long-term and sustainable future that will be to the benefit of all citizens and the economy.
Read more...Brendoncare Knightwood’s staff and residents are delighted to have had the opportunity of nurturing the new ducklings that have hatched at the care home.
Read more...Edensor Care Centre in Clacton-on-Sea wanted to create a vintage railway carriage to improve the wellbeing of its residents. The three vintage-style compartments were designed to allow COVID
Read more...From cinema nights at home to weekly Zoom parties, families have paid tribute to support workers at a learning disability service in Bishops Stortford, following a year that has seen them provide “exemplary” care for their relatives.
Read more...All Residents of HC-One’s Ash Court residential care home, in Knotty Ash, were overjoyed by the kindness bestowed upon them from the local community.
Read more...Over 400,000 of England’s adult social care workforce have not received a coronavirus vaccine, according to research.
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