Chief Nursing Officer Appoints First-Ever Advisor For Care Home Nursing
England’s most senior nurse has appointed the lead on health and wellbeing for Chelsea Pensioners as her advisor on improving support for care home nurses….
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Care Home Residents Reminisce On Earliest Radio Memories To Celebrate World Radio Day
Residents in a Surrey care home have been reminiscing about their earliest memories of radio to mark World Radio Day – with a 95-year-old able…
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Dementia Drop-In Café To Offer Support To High Wycombe Community
Support for people living with dementia and their loved ones will be available to the High Wycombe community at a new Royal Star & Garter…
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Charterpoint Senior Living Starts Work On New Bingham Care Home
Developers have broken ground on a new 70-bed care home being built in Bingham, Nottinghamshire. Contractor Lawrence Baker has been appointed to build the new…
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Wales To Consider Tax Rise To Fund Elderly Social Care
Wales could introduce a tax to fund social care to help resolve the “very real” pressures on social services. Health minister Vaughan Gething told AMs…
Read more...Keeping Up With The Living Wage
Care England, the largest representative body for independent providers of adult social care, has expressed concern about the cost of implementing the National Living Wage…
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Nursery And Care Home Collaboration Continues
An Intergenerational project between a care home and nursery in Northfleet has blossomed, as regular visits see friendships and confidence grow. Children from Northfleet Nursery…
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LGA Responds To Care England Report On Social Care Fees
Responding to a report by Care England on the funding of independent care homes compared to those operated by local authorities, Cllr Ian Hudspeth, Chairman…
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Drug Trial Fails To Slow Memory And Thinking Decline In Rare Genetic Form Of Alzheimer’s
Scientists have announced results from DIAN-TU, an international clinical trial testing the potential Alzheimer’s drugs, solanezumab and gantenerumab, in people with a rare, inherited form…
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Newcross Healthcare Rated Good By CQC For Complex Care In Shrewsbury
Newcross Healthcare in Shrewsbury has achieved an overall Good rating for its at-home complex care service from the Care Quality Commission (CQC). The care quality…
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‘We Danced All Night, Then He Walked Me Home’
Coupled married for 73-years finally settle down at Brunelcare’s ABC Centre Devoted Bristol-born two-some Victor and Glennis Holvey, both 93-years-old, have been married for an…
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EHRC Launches Legal Challenge Against Health Secretary For Failing’ Patients With Autism
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has launched a legal challenge against The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock for…
Read more...Ombudsman Reminds Councils About Care Home Top-Up Fees
Councils across England are being reminded by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman of their duties under the Care Act to administer ‘top-up fees’…
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Local Care Provider Offers A Valuable ‘Stepping Stone’ For Patients Discharged From Hospital
An invaluable new partnership has been formed to facilitate timely hospital discharge for older people. The Fremantle Trust has been praised by families of those…
Read more...Budget: Crunch Time-Says Care England
Care England, the largest representative body for independent providers of adult social care, has submitted evidence to the Chancellor’s Budget process urging him to act…
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