Care Home News
Ping pong craze sweeps care homes
02 Oct 2013
A ping pong craze is sweeping care homes all over the country inspired by the Ping Pong Care Campaign. Thousands of care home residents have taken up the sport, since the campaign launched last year, in.....
Government wants Care Quality Commission to be 'chief whistleblower' for care homes
02 Oct 2013
New Government proposals promise to give health care regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), greater powers of investigation into care homes. The package of proposed reforms presented at the recent.....
National Care Forum chief ‘disheartened’ care homes are only put in the media spotlight ‘when things go wrong’
02 Oct 2013
The care home sector is currently battling with financial difficulties and an image problem, according to Des Kelly, executive director of the National Care Forum. As executive director of the National Care.....
Using mindfulness to improve life for people with dementia - 'We were not worrying about what happened yesterday and what might happen tomorrow, but accepting the here and now'
02 Oct 2013
A project has undertaken research to understand the potential teaching mindfulness could have to help people living with dementia. Mindfulness is a practice which can help people relieve stress through a.....
Care Quality Commission proposes fee increase for care home providers
01 Oct 2013
Independent health care regulator, Care Quality Commission (CQC), has published a consultative document outlining the fees that it proposes to charge registered care providers in 2014/15. Under the proposal,.....
Gracewell Healthcare celebrates its inspirational care home residents on Older People's Day
01 Oct 2013
Gracewell Healthcare care home provider has been celebrating its most inspirational residents at its Home Champion Awards 2013. The finalists from Gracewell’s nine care homes, were nominated for leading outstanding lives both.....
Nursing association urges speedier care home manager registration
01 Oct 2013
The Care Quality Commission is taking far too long to process the registration of newly appointed care home managers, according to the Registered Nursing Home Association. RNHA chief executive Frank Ursell.....
Care homes risk going out of business due to banks' interest rate mis-selling
01 Oct 2013
A poor review process is failing to help care homes achieve compensation for mis-sold interest rate products, according to financial experts. So far a meagre 10 cases out of 15,000 small and medium-sized businesses to undertake.....
Innovative dementia care home opens in Newark
01 Oct 2013
A purpose-built care home for dementia patients that features state-of-the-art facilities has been completed by care home property experts Bullock. Costing £3.4million, Lancaster Grange Care Home, which.....