A UK-first brain health clinic that is set to transform how dementia is diagnosed, slowed down or prevented launches today (Monday 21 September), World Alzheimer’s…
Read more...Care providers have been requested to strengthen checks, maintenance and staff training for patient hoists and slings after the medicines’ regulator The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) warned that preventable falls…
Read more...The Department of Health and Social Care has launched the search for England’s first national dementia tsar, following sustained pressure from charities calling for dementia…
Read more...A care home provider has featured a former James Bond actress in a training video designed to help staff make better informed assessments about residents’…
Read more...Care homes across the country are being invited to roll out the red carpet, dust off their dancing shoes and get into the Care Sector’s…
Read more...Councils struggling with high-cost services will benefit from a funding boost to help modernise services, harness AI and reduce their reliance on emergency support. A…
Read more...Dementia care has been branded as “stuck in the 20th century” in a new report calling for a transformation on the scale of the progress…
Read more...The government’s review of its local government reorganisation programme must result in a ‘material change of direction’ if ministers are to avoid creating councils that…
Read more...The coalition of national voices of adult social care providers in England, the Care Provider Alliance (CPA) is delighted to welcome Rhidian Hughes, Chief Executive…
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© Guy Newman. 09.09.2026. South West Care Homes celebrate taking over Manor Court in Plymouth. L-R SWCH senior management team Gavin Reeves - Finance Director, Amanda Moreton - Operations Director, Arron Dark Manor Court manager + MD Richard White.
South West Care Homes is marking its 25th anniversary by taking over a third property in its home town of Plymouth. The company, founded in…
Read more...The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has accepted a package of remedies proposed by Welltower and Apex Healthcare Properties, bringing its investigation into a series of care home acquisitions to a close.
Read more...Glasgow is hosting nursing leaders, researchers and practitioners from across the globe this week as the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) shines a spotlight on the life-changing impact of nursing research.
Read more...Bristol’s St Peter’s Hospice is supporting a national campaign encouraging people to consider leaving a gift to their local hospice in their Will.
Read more...New polling by Opinium for Carers UK reveals that 3.33 million people have given up work to care for a family member or friend who is older, disabled or seriously ill, with 1.1 million leaving their job in the last two years alone – more than 1,500 people a day.
Read more...One of the UK’s longest-established social care charities has unveiled a new identity and an ambitious strategy to increase its impact across communities nationwide. Saint…
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