Actor Shaun Williamson, famous for playing Barry in Eastenders, was the host of a glittering awards evening to celebrate staff at specialist care provider, Cornerstone Healthcare Group. Shaun helped to celebrate the long service of more than 30 Cornerstone employees ...

The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has issued a good practice guide which shares lessons from complaints to help adult social care providers improve their services. The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has issued a good practice guide ...

KNITTING boards are helping elderly residents build their hand strength, hand-to-eye coordination and concentration. The toys, which resemble cross-stitching, are being used at The Beeches Care Home, on Green Lane, Stockton-on-Tees. They were originally designed as an educational and development ...

Pat Corbin, a resident at RMBI Home Zetland Court in Bournemouth, has celebrated her 108th birthday. Pat’s milestone age makes her the oldest resident across RMBI Care Co.’s 18 care homes in England and Wales.   To mark her special ...

Residents and employees from local care provider and charity, The Fremantle Trust, had their published poems on show in a special collection at Waterstones in Aylesbury today, to celebrate World Poetry Day. The annual global awareness day recognises the role ...

The local authority area data profiles bring together data to give an indication of how different services work together, providing a picture of the health and social care system in each local authority area. The updated data profiles draw on analysis of ...

Care homes up and down the country are preparing for Care Home Open Day on 28 June. The theme this year is art in care and www.carehomeopenday.org.uk is bursting with ideas as to how to mark the occasion. Sylvie Silver, Executive ...

Resident takes the plunge as part of MHA Richmond’s ‘Seize the Day’ scheme MHA Richmond care home resident, Lillian O’Neill, who celebrated her 103rd birthday earlier this year, has astounded her friends, family and staff by taking to the water ...

A radical expansion of nurse training, with cost-of-living grants of £5,200 a year and a tripling in the number of people training as postgraduates, is among a set of urgent measures that a new report says are needed to prevent ...

A Dorset care home resident who trained with the famous Ballet Rambert was transported back to her heyday by a talented young dancer. Norma Richards, 89, a resident at Colten Care’s Newstone House in Sturminster Newton, spent her 20s dancing ...