Care Home Pharmacists To Help Cut Overmedication For Older Patients
NHS England has announced plans to recruit and deploy hundreds of pharmacists into care homes to help reduce overmedication and cut unnecessary hospital stays. Around…
Read more...NHS England has announced plans to recruit and deploy hundreds of pharmacists into care homes to help reduce overmedication and cut unnecessary hospital stays. Around…
Read more...The latest ‘visitor’ to a Sherborne care home had a mane, a tail and wore two sets of training shoes. Star the Miniature American Horse…
Read more...CQC’s Andrea Sutcliffe was keynote speaker at region’s biggest business event for adult social care providers earlier this month. With the adult social care sector…
Read more...A survey by online researchers Panelbase reveals that 76% of people do not believe care homes ensure the safety and welfare of residents. The study,…
Read more...Two Alzheimer’s Society colleagues will push themselves to the limit when they embark on one of the world’s greatest treks. Anna Ward and Hayley Woodyatt…
Read more...Southampton Notary Caroline Coats and Alzheimer’s Research UK hosted an event on Saturday 17 March on planning for the future for older people. The event…
Read more...A Northamptonshire care home is celebrating 10 years of delivering care in the community this month. Shaw healthcare-run, Thorndale care home, in Kettering, marked the…
Read more...National social care charity, Community Integrated Care, celebrated its 30th anniversary last night, hosting a major event that explored the progress made by the care…
Read more...A Care UK care home regional facilities manager, praised by colleagues for his determination in ensuring residents’ wellbeing, has shown the same dedication during a…
Read more...Great Oaks, a specialist residential, nursing and dementia care home in Bournemouth, has been crowned the winner of the Dorset Building Excellence Awards 2018 for…
Read more...Greater awareness of the health issues experienced by disabled people and the use of reasonable adjustments are vital if individuals are to have better health…
Read more...Swedish researchers have found that middle-aged women with high levels of physical fitness have a reduced risk of developing dementia. The findings are published today…
Read more...Published poet, Ben Batten, paid a special visit to residents at Chesham Leys nursing home to join their celebrations in honour of Shakespeare Week. The…
Read more...Two residents of Belong Wigan care village and lifelong Wigan Warriors supporters, Lily Pointer, aged 81, and Mary Cunliffe, aged 89, enjoyed the day out…
Read more...The number of hospital admissions due to an older person falling is set to rise to nearly 1,000 a day by the end of the…
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