Teesside Care Home Volunteer Retires At 92
A 92-YEAR-OLD volunteer has retired after 14 years’ service at a Teesside care home. Marie Toombs started volunteering at The Gables Care Home, in Middlesbrough,…
Read more...A 92-YEAR-OLD volunteer has retired after 14 years’ service at a Teesside care home. Marie Toombs started volunteering at The Gables Care Home, in Middlesbrough,…
Read more...Award-winning actor Vicky McClure has today announced her commitment to help build a dementia-friendly UK after being appointed as an Alzheimer’s Society Ambassador. With one…
Read more...A Walsall care home rated as inadequate following a visit by the Care Quality Commission in August 2017, is now out of special measures. Ash…
Read more...A Wellingborough care home has been chosen to receive the support of a community-based volunteer initiative by supermarket giant, Tesco. Five members of staff from…
Read more...In response to a report by think tank IPPR calling for the government to raise National Insurance contributions by 1p in the pound to secure…
Read more...Alzheimer’s Research UK is backing a call for governments worldwide to develop and implement action plans for tackling dementia. The recommendation, which comes during Dementia…
Read more...Today the NHS Confederation responded to Securing The Future: Funding health and social care to the 2030s, the report it commissioned with the Health Foundation…
Read more...A pub built by Borough Care at its Bamford Close home for older people in Cale Green, Stockport is now open for business. Residents and…
Read more...A woman was banned from visiting her mother in a Liverpool care home after she complained about her treatment, the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman…
Read more...The metre-tall, 70kg animals were visiting residents at Hazelgrove Court Care Home, in Saltburn-by-the-Sea. They immediately made themselves at home, settling in the lounge and…
Read more...As part of Laundrytec’s continuing expansion two new key members of staff have joined, and the company have also relocated to new offices in the…
Read more...FLUMPETS are invading Hartlepool as elderly residents sold the cute, cuddly toys to generate donations for a local hospice. The residents and staff at Queens…
Read more...The results of the 2017 UK Parkinson’s Audit, the largest dataset obtained to date about the quality of care provided to people with Parkinson’s across…
Read more...NHS England has announced funding for three Local Health and Care Record projects to support the integration of health and social care through more effective…
Read more...A 79-YEAR-OLD care home worker has been awarded Employee of the Month after more than two decades of service. Brenda Tooby is a domestic cleaner…
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