Resident Elsie Lemming from at HC One’s Willow Brook care home is celebrating her 102nd birthday.
Elsie had some fabulous balloons and received plenty of cards and gifts from her loved ones.
Read more...Colleagues and Residents at HC One’s White Gables care home enjoy some time at ‘Foggy’s Bar’.
Rachael Fogg, the unit manager at the Lincoln care home, had an idea to make one of the small lounges at the home into a bar.
Read more...HC-One’s Roseland Court Care Home in Truro, Gittisham Hill House Care Home in Honiton and Bereweeke Court Care Home in Winchester are taking part in the Department of Health
Read more...Vic Rayner, Executive Director of the National Care Forum responds to the Chancellor’s spending review.
“The Spending Review is a catastrophe for social care. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the government has consistently talked
Read more...A new report by the National Audit Office (NAO) has revealed that adult social care providers were not adequately supported by government in obtaining PPE and came very close to running out during the pandemic.
Read more...New data released today shows that care homes who pioneered an innovative telemedicine approach to assessing residents following a fall, have seen a significant reduction
Read more...Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s spending review has been described as a ‘catastrophe’ for the social care sector.
Addressing the House of Commons, the Chancellor said that local authorities access to an extra £1 million next year, however councils would be unlikely
Read more...Colin Evans, 95, and his dog Rusty are set to do 50 laps around their Gracewell of Sway care home in an ambitious attempt to raise £500 for Cancer Research UK.
Read more...New visiting regime and vaccination will stretch providers
Over-stretched are providers are calling for urgent help as they face a mountain of work to enable visiting to resume and the vaccination programme to begin.
Read more...Residents and Colleagues at HC One’s Brandon House care home have been getting involved with the shoebox appeal.
Read more...A virtual event celebrating social care in Surrey saw celebrities line-up to praise the hard work of care sector workers during the pandemic, applauding them for going above and beyond to help those in need.
Read more...Eva is a Resident on the Harmony community, Dodd Wing at HC-One’s Moss View care home in Liverpool. Eva volunteered for over 40 years of her life and when Colleagues heard about this, they just had to find out more.
Read more...Following the release of the government’s Covid Winter plan Vic Rayner, Executive Director at the National Care Forum shares her thoughts on the impact it will have on social care and of its potential impact on care providers:
Read more...A Surrey care home has taken part in a special virtual event that recognised the outstanding dedication of those working in social care across the county – in what has been a challenging year for the sector.
Read more...The Prime Minister has published the government’s COVID Winter Plan, which will include care homes being able to permit family visits over Christmas by testing relatives for COVID-19.
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