Hallmark Care Home Scoops National Dementia Design Award
Hallmark Care Homes’ facility in Cardiff has scooped a prestigious dementia design award. Shire Hall Care Home was named ‘Best Interior Dementia Design’ at the…
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Local Government Association Analysis Forecasts That Almost 60p In Every £1 Of Council Tax Could Be Spent On Social Care By 2020
Hft welcomes the publication of the Local Government Association’s latest analysis of local council spending data which today warned that the social care sector needed…
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Care Village Chef Crowned Winner Of Prestigious Care Award
A specialist chef from the Belong care village on Kennedy Avenue in Macclesfield, has been crowned winner of the ‘Care Home Cook’ Great North West…
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Autumn Budget 2017: Deloitte Public Sector And Economics Predictions
Ahead of the Autumn Budget on 22 November, Deloitte’s public sector and economics teams set out their thoughts on the outlook for public services, the…
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Sleep Problem Linked To Changes In Hallmark Alzheimer’s Protein
Researchers in the US have found a link between the sleep disorder, obstructive sleep apnoea, and levels of a protein involved in Alzheimer’s disease. Their…
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Care Home Cooks Learn ‘Fundamentals Of Fish’ Through Ongoing Partnership With Young’s Foodservice
As part of an ongoing partnership between Orchard Care Homes and Young’s Foodservice, over 15 Cooks from across the Orchard Care Homes Group attended a…
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Elderly Reminisce About The Old Times At Peterlee Social Club
A PINT, dominoes and pool was “just like old times” for the elderly at a Peterlee care home. The residents of Bannatyne Lodge Care Home,…
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Almost 60p In Every £1 Of Council Tax To Be Spent On Social Care By 2020
Almost 60p in every £1 that people pay in council tax may have to be spent caring for children and adults by 2020, leaving increasingly…
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Cost Of Average Length Of Stay In A Residential Care Home Is Equivalent To 26 Years’ Worth Of Family Holidays
The cost of the average length of stay in a residential care home is the equivalent of around 26 years’ worth of annual holidays for…
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Local School Creates Time Capsule For New Care Home
Pupils from Christ Church & St Peter’s CE Primary School in Mountsorrel have been creating posters and stories about their lives to bury in a…
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Call To Address Critical State Of Health And Social Care
Nuffield Trust, the Health Foundation and The King’s Fund are urging the government to address the critical state of health and social care in its…
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Memory Brain Areas Particularly Vulnerable To Reduced Blood Flow
A new study from researchers in the US suggests that older people whose hearts pump less blood have reduced blood flow in areas of the…
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A Second Class Ending – End Of Life Care For People Who Are Homeless
There is huge variation in the quality of care that people receive at the end of their life, says the CQC. Homeless people face significant…
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Chancellor Has Been Warned About NHS Funding Need, Says NHS Confederation
Responding to the speech by NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens in Birmingham today, Niall Dickson, Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation, which represents organisations…
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£1m Donor Honoured At ‘Financial Oscars’
A retired dentist who gave £1million to Alzheimer’s Society has been honoured at the ‘Oscars of the private banking world.’ Malcolm Joyce, of Tynemouth, made…
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