New research published 17th September 2018, by Pain Concern offers the prospect of better care for people living with long-term pain. Persistent pain affects 1-in-5 (800,000) people – many of them severely. Pain killers which are commonly used to treat ...

COLOUR canons fired by Hill Care Group staff kicked off the third and final Teesside Hospice Colour Run for 2018. The care home group, which operates several homes across Teesside, was one of the sponsors of this year’s event and ...

Care England, the largest representative body for independent providers of adult social care, has expressed concern that once again the social care sector has been left out of new funding for NHS for winter. Professor Martin Green OBE, Chief Executive ...

The Mayor of Boston, Councillor Judith Skinner, officially opened a new residential care facility in Boston on Friday 14th September after a six-month refurbishment. Tanglewood Care Homes, Lincolnshire’s largest private care home provider has established Forget-Me-Not-Court – a 16-bed courtyard ...

New research suggests a lack of information and support is preventing people from thinking about the care they may want or need in the future. A third of over 55s haven’t given any thought to what care they might need ...

Kilmarnock, Ayrshire – Spearhead Healthcare, one of the UK’s leading suppliers to the care home sector, will open the doors to a new showroom in Stafford later this month in response to growing demand for high quality furniture, furnishings and ...

Leading homecare provider Bluebird Care Maidstone’s Care Manager Mel Marriott has received the prestigious ‘Registered Manager Of The Year Award’ for the company’s South East UK Region. Bluebird Care has 200 offices across the UK and Mel was one of ...

Rob Devonshire, Head Chef at Clayburn Court care home in Peterborough has won the prestigious Chef of the Year competition. Rob defeated seven fellow chefs in a special cook-off at the University of Birmingham. Michelin star chef Tom Shepherd judged the entries and said how impressed ...

VOLUNTEERS have helped bring a Bolton care home’s edible garden project to fruition. Fruits, vegetables and herbs have been planted throughout Lever Edge Care Home, in Great Lever, after winning funding from Bolton Council. The Bolton Transformation Fund awarded £6,100 ...

A pioneering study that uses Howz’s technology to enable clinicians to remotely monitor the health of people with dementia living at home has received an extra £1 million in funding from NHS England and the Office for Life Sciences. Howz, ...