Care Home News
Winterbourne View Hospital Serious Case Review
07 Aug 2012
South Gloucestershire Council has published its Serious Case Review into Winterbourne View Hospital, after all eleven previous employees of the facility, charged with the ill treatment of patients with learning disabilities, pleaded.....
The connotations of an ageing care workforce
06 Aug 2012
Des Kelly OBE, executive director of the National Care Forum (NCF), is anxious to see the care sector become more active in encouraging younger people to take up a career in the sector, after figures from the organisation’s annual.....
UK care homes entering into the Olympic spirit
06 Aug 2012
Olympic fever has engulfed the whole nation in a wave of pride and happiness, with even the sun making its long-awaited appearance! UK care homes have well and truly embraced the spirit of the Games and are going for gold with inspiring.....
A room with a view - innovative and comfortable care home rooms
06 Aug 2012
Management at the nation’s care homes have to continuously think of innovative and welcoming ways to make their care homes feel like ‘home’ for their residents. From popping into the friendly ‘pub’ room for a glass or two of one’s.....
St Cecilia's care home uses telecare to check for incontinence and falls
06 Aug 2012
Telecare is becoming increasingly common in homecare to enable people to live independently but it is still very much a rarity in care homes. Yet monitoring people through technology can enable people in care homes to be more independent,.....
English Community Care Association
06 Aug 2012
The English Community Care Association (ECCA) is a registered charity that campaigns to support the work of independent care providers, assisting the role of care professionals with a unified voice that can help inform national policy. On.....
RNHA chief executive takes the positive from care home complaint case studies
03 Aug 2012
Frank Ursell, the chief executive officer of the Registered Nursing Home Association (RNHA), has welcomed this week’s report from the Local Government Ombudsman (LGO), which found that complaints about care homes and home care have.....
West Yorkshire care home making the most of rural surroundings
03 Aug 2012
Three Sisters care home, in Haworth, has announced the opening of a new discovery centre designed to help member of the local community feel more in touch with rural life. The West Yorkshire care home, which is located within 18-acres.....
Should care home providers be forced to have financial health checks to prevent another Southern Cross crisis happening?
02 Aug 2012
Stephen Lowe, social care policy advisor for Age UK
YES
Age UK, has been campaigning for care home providers to have financial health checks for years.
Its policy advisor, Stephen Lowe says: "We favour a regulatory approach and it needs specific financial expertise so Monitor...
Martin Green, chief executive, English Community Care Association (ECCA)NO
"In relation to financial regulation we believe that every business should be able to show it is viable but this is required already by the Audit process and by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) so we do not need extra regulation,"........
Sanctuary Care helps former Olympian to visit the Olympics
02 Aug 2012
A former Olympian is attending the Olympics with the help of a Sanctuary Care Ltd home in London. At the age of 17, Steffen Cranmer was the youngest ever member selected for the British shooting team competing in the Helsinki Olympics in.....
Care home residents swap tea dancing for belly dancing
02 Aug 2012
Residents of a care home swapped their tea dance for belly dancing. Professional dancer Fatma gave a demonstration of her belly dancing at Pendine Park Care Organisation Ltd in Wrexham, Wales. Her performance at the care home was enjoyed by the.....
Care home provider Sanctuary Group acquires nine homes in the Midlands
01 Aug 2012
Care home provider Sanctuary Care Ltd has acquired nine care homes in the Midlands from specialist care developer LNT Group. The acquisition is made up of five fully operational care homes and four new builds in the Midlands, two of which.....
Complaints about care homes and home care rise by 22 per cent
01 Aug 2012
Complaints about care homes and home care have risen by 22 per cent, according to a report by the Local Government Ombudsman. The Local Government Ombudsman’s investigative teams looked at more than 1,000 adult social care complaints.....