Vic Rayner Appointed As Executive Director Of NCF
The National Care Forum (NCF) has announced the appointment of Vic Rayner as Executive Director to succeed Des Kelly OBE who leaves at the beginning…
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Flipping Good Fun As Care Home Marks Pancake Day
A NEW Forest care home had a flipping good time by celebrating Pancake Day with a race in its grounds. Three residents at Colten Care’s…
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RNHA Calls For Emergency Cash Injection Into Social Care To Help Alleviate NHS Bed Blocking Crisis – Response To Lord Carter’s Report
The Registered Nursing Home Association (RNHA) has called for an emergency cash injection by the government into social care so that local authorities can purchase more care…
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Midlife Fitness Linked To Brain Volume Two Decades Later
A US study of over 1,000 healthy people has linked markers of poorer physical fitness in midlife with a smaller brain volume almost two decades…
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Alzheimer’s Research UK Launches Yoga For Alzheimer’s Nationwide
Budding yoga enthusiasts and newcomers alike are invited to limber up for a national event launched by Alzheimer’s Research UK to raise money for vital…
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Only Half Of Health Professionals See Malnutrition As A Priority
New research by the Malnutrition Task Force reveals that only half (51 per cent) of health professionals thought malnutrition was a priority in their organisations. Only 47 per…
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Charity Calls For Care Home Fee Reform Over Price Increases
Charity Citizens Advice has called for a minimum period of notice on changes/increases in care home fees after a report found residents are being hit…
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The End Of An Era
A gentle giant bid a fond farewell to residents at a Sanctuary Care home in Worcester recently, with a final goodbye before his retirement. Pets…
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Nursing Named One Of The Most Recession-Proof Occupations
Only roles in technology and social care have been more immune to economic volatility than nursing The aggregate wage bill has risen 23% in real…
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British Public’s Satisfaction With The NHS Falls By Five Percentage Points
The British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey for 2015 reports a five percentage point fall in satisfaction with the National Health Service compared to 2014, data…
Read more...MOOC To Tackle Dementia 2020 Challenge Back By Popular Demand
The University of Derby’s Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) titled ‘Bridging the Dementia Divide’ is back by popular demand after the University received high levels…
Read more...Carers For People With Dementia Struggling In Silence
The UK’s largest research trial of support for carers of people with dementia launches today. Nine in 10 carers for people with dementia experience feelings…
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Crisis In Care: Homecare Services At A Four Year Low According To Latest Good Care Guide Evaluation
• Over half (51%) of homecare agencies in the UK provide a bad or poor quality service according to reviewers • One in four care…
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Hallmark Care Homes Grants Residents’ Christmas Wish To Reunite With Old Flame After 20 years apart
Award-winning care provider, Hallmark Care Homes has granted a residents’ Christmas wish to see his old flame by organising a reunion at the care home…
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Care Home’s Cycle Marathon For British Heart Foundation
A CYCLING marathon is taking place this week at a Stockton-on-Tees care home in support of the British Heart Foundation’s Wear it Beat it campaign….
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