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OSJCT migrates to cloud solution as part of digital transformation

The Orders of St John Care Trust (OSJCT) has migrated to a cloud communications solution ...

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Technology

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Birchgrove teams up with estate agent Hamptons

Specialist retirement property provider Birchgrove has announced a strategic partnership with estate agent Hamptons.

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Retirement living

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Colten Care holds dementia conference

Care provider Colten Care’s leadership academy held a conference for 80 staff members to discuss ...

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Dementia Care

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Billion pound cost of ambulance falls call-outs revealed

Almost £1 billion has been spent on ambulance calls for falls over the past four ...

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Clinical

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Leonard Cheshire to close care home after deregistration

Leonard Cheshire is to close a care home after it was issued with a de-registration ...

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Regulation & Inspection

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Home Office revokes care company’s overseas sponsor licence

A Borders care company has had its licence to sponsor overseas care workers revoked by ...

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Staffing

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Government provides £20m boost for social care and unpaid carers

A £20 million investment in innovative projects to support people in adult social care and ...

2 months

Policy & Politics

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Black Swan Care Group renews Real Living Wage commitment

Black Swan Care Group has renewed its commitment to providing the Real Living Wage to ...

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Staffing

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Skills for Care publishes guidance on social care nurse placements

Skills for Care has published guidance to support the development of social care nursing placement ...

2 months

Training

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First-time buyer acquires Chippenham home

Vishal Chandnani, a first-time buyer, has acquired The Priory a care home in Chippenham, Wiltshire ...

2 months

Property

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Brixton care home unveils in-house pub

Limetree Care Home in Brixton has unveiled its newly renovated pub, The Lambeth Arms.

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Wellbeing

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Oakland Care named as top 20 mid-size care group

Oakland Care has been rated as one of the UK’s Top 20 mid-size care home ...

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Business

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Top care homes in the UK revealed

The top care homes in the UK have been revealed by care home reviews website ...

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Business

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Foreign care workers subjected to rape and exploitation

Care workers on overseas visas have suffered rape, sexual harassment and exploitation, an investigation has ...

2 months

Staffing

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Home care provider expands into new area

Home care provider Bluebird Care Guildford & Waverley and Woking and Surrey Heath has opened ...

2 months

Business

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Arrests made in £76m luxury care home fraud investigation

Three arrests have been made by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) as part of an ...

2 months

Legal

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Wallacea Living appoints creative director

Integrated retirement community start-up Wallacea Living has appointed Sue Timney as creative director.

2 months

People moves

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MasterChef winner serves up a treat at Signature care home

BBC MasterChef winner Jane Devonshire hosted a cookery class and Q&A at Signature at Highgate.

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Catering

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Anchor named Top 20 Large Care Home Group

Anchor has been named a Top 20 Large Care Home Group by a national care ...

2 months

Business

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Robotic cat proves the ‘purrfect’ care home companion

A robotic cat named Marmalade is proving popular with residents at a Northumberland care home.

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Technology

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Student paramedics gain care home work experience

Student paramedics have been gaining experience of working in care homes as part of an ...

2 months

Training

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Home care business gains second Outstanding rating

Home care provider Right at Home Solent & Southampton has been rated Outstanding by the ...

2 months

Regulation & Inspection

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Target Healthcare increases rental income

Target Healthcare REIT has reported that its contractual rent increased by 2.4% in the second ...

2 months

Property

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Abbey Healthcare pilots PainChek pain assessment tech

A care home pilot in Scotland has seen the number of pain assessments carried out ...

2 months

Technology

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Overseas care worker restrictions come into force

New rules on overseas care worker visas have been introduced by the government today.

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Policy & Politics

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Liverpool City Council extends dementia care support

Liverpool City Council is extending its dementia support with the opening of new beds for ...

2 months

Dementia Care

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Exemplar Health Care celebrates Top 20 care home ranking

Exemplar Health Care’s Dearnevale care home has celebrated a Top 20 care home ranking on ...

2 months

Business

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Care home worker jailed after being filmed abusing resident

A Devon care worker has been jailed after being filmed abusing an elderly resident. Jinu ...

2 months

Legal

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Westgate Healthcare to open two new care homes in Hertfordshire

Westgate Healthcare has unveiled plans to develop and open two new care homes in Hertfordshire.

2 months

Property

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Care home residents experience life under the waves

Care home residents have enjoyed a deep sea experience thanks to VR headsets provided by ...

2 months

Technology

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Lords voice concerns over impact of health and social care visa restrictions

A cross-party House of Lords scrutiny committee has voiced concerns over restrictions to health and ...

2 months

Policy & Politics

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Hartford Care celebrates inspirational female residents on International Women’s Day

Hartford Care is celebrating the adventures and successes of the inspirational female residents across its ...

2 months

Wellbeing

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Care leader holds ‘constructive talks’ with shadow minister

Mike Padgham, chair of the Independent Care Group, has held “constructive talks” with shadow care ...

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Policy & Politics

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NHS funded nursing care to rise by 7.4% from April

The rate paid for care homes for NHS funded nursing care (FNC) will increase by ...

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Policy & Politics

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Home care provider invests more than £5m in career pathway programme

Home care provider Cera is investing more than £5 million in the launch of its ...

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Training

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Class of 2023 graduates from Barchester chef academy

Twenty talented head chefs have completed a year’s training at the Barchester chef academy.

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Catering

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Living Lab pioneers innovative approach to dementia care

University of Liverpool researchers are spearheading the adoption of an innovative approach to dementia care ...

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Dementia Care

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Commissioner calls for greater protection from care home evictions

The Commissioner for Older People for Northern Ireland, Eddie Lynch, has called for stronger protection ...

2 months

Policy & Politics

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Danforth Care opens home in Lancashire

Danforth Care Group has opened Meadow Croft in Garstang Lancashire, which offers 24-hour residential, respite, ...

2 months

Specialist Care

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Agincare launches specialist accommodation for adults with autism

Agincare has launched a new supported living scheme for adults with a learning disability or ...

2 months

Specialist Care

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Spring Budget labelled ‘non-event’ for older people

Care leaders have slammed yesterday’s Spring Budget has a “non-event” for older people.

2 months

Policy & Politics

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Social care ‘forgotten’ as chancellor prioritises tax cuts and NHS

Social care was snubbed once more in the Spring Budget as chancellor Jeremy Hunt focused ...

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Policy & Politics

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Kepler Vision Technologies appoints chief marketing officer

Kepler Vision Technologies, a provider of software for patient wellbeing in elderly care facilities, has ...

2 months

People moves

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Hallmark Luxury Care Homes gains green light for Woodford Green home

Hallmark Luxury Care Homes has been granted planning permission to build a care home on ...

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Property

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Exemplar Health Care appoints Huntington’s disease nurse consultant

Complex nursing care provider Exemplar Health Care has appointed Joanna McCabe as its first Huntington’s ...

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People moves

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Care leader warns of ‘gaping chasm’ in social care funding ahead of Spring Budget

Sam Monaghan, chief executive of MHA, has warned of a “gaping chasm” between government funding ...

2 months

Policy & Politics

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New recycling rules will quadruple our waste costs, care homes say

New recycling rules to be introduced by the Welsh government next month will quadruple waste ...

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Business

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Aria Care Group launches innovative leadership programme

Aria Care Group has launched an innovative initiative to help its colleagues develop exceptional leadership ...

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Training

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Bluebird Care franchise celebrates 10 years of serving the local community

Bluebird Care Northallerton, Thirsk, and Catterick has celebrated a decade of helping provide community care.

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Business

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Bidfood’s Turner takes role at the Foodservice Packaging Association

The Foodservice Packaging Association has appointed Bidford’s Anna Turner as a director and interim vice-chairman.

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Catering

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Orchard Care Homes appoints director of operations

Orchard Care Homes has appointed Geoff Edwards as director of operations overseeing the group’s central ...

2 months

People moves

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Somerset Care cites ‘financial challenges’ in care home closure announcement

Somerset Care has cited “financial challenges” in launching a consultation on the closure of two ...

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Property

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Leading operators sign up to care workers’ charter

Six care homes run by Agincare, Country Court Care Homes and HC-One have signed up ...

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Staffing

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Chief medical officer explains policy to discharge Covid patients to care homes

Chief medical officer for Wales Sir Frank Atherton has explained why there was a deliberate ...

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Policy & Politics

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Cinnamon Care Collection secures funding for homes

Cinnamon Care Collection has refinanced two luxury homes with lender Leumi UK in a £23 ...

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Business

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Skills for Care champions registered managers

Skills for Care is championing registered managers with its latest campaign this month.

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Staffing

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Parklands Care Homes celebrates turnaround of Moray care homes

Parklands Care Homes has celebrated the turnaround of two recently acquired Moray care homes.

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Property

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In-house app helps transform employee engagement and retention

Signature Senior Lifestyle has developed an in-house app to transform its employee engagement and retention.

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Staffing

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Abuse of overseas care worker sponsor licences revealed

An investigation has revealed abuse of the overseas sponsor licence system for care workers.

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Staffing

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Elevation signs sale and leaseback deal for 11 homes

Elevation Healthcare Properties has acquired from Clariane 11 properties and simultaneously leased them back to ...

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Property

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Care home fined £400k following death of resident

An HC-One care home in Scotland has been fined £400,000 following the death of a ...

2 months

Legal

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Forget tax cuts, back social care, campaigners tell chancellor

Social care campaigners have urged chancellor Jeremy Hunt to forget tax cuts and provide urgently ...

3 months

Policy & Politics

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Guild Care announces pay increase for care and support teams

Social care charity Guild Care has announced carers and support workers will receive a pay ...

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Staffing

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Huntingdon home care provider announces new ownership team

Home care provider Bluebird Care Huntingdon has welcomed new owners with more than a decade ...

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Business

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EXCLUSIVE: Workplace parking levy a ‘poll tax on wheels’, care leader says

Plans for a mandatory care parking levy for workers in Glasgow have been slammed as ...

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Policy & Politics

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Welsh care homes were caught in ‘nightmare experiment’ during Covid

Care home in Wales were caught up in a nightmare ‘experiment’ during Covid, a leader ...

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Policy & Politics

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Oakland Care celebrates longest serving team member

Oakland Care is celebrating a momentous milestone in the career of its longest serving team ...

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Staffing

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Walfinch marketing investment boosts franchisees’ visibility

Walfinch home care franchisees are being offered extra digital services to boost their visibility and ...

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Business

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Aria Care Group launches chef apprenticeship programme

Aria Care Group has partnered with training provider Lifetime to launch a Chef Academy apprenticeship ...

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Catering

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Residents £6m better off thanks to Anchor financial service

Residents are over £6 million better off thanks to a financial inclusion service provided by ...

3 months

Finance

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Illegal care home investment scheme boss banned for 14 years

The boss of an unlawful care home investment scheme has been banned from being a ...

3 months

Legal

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Birchgrove and Hybr launch intergenerational living scheme

Birchgrove and Hybr are developing an intergenerational living scheme which will see retirees living in ...

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Property

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Vida Healthcare marks recruitment and training milestone

Vida Healthcare has recruited and trained over 250 care workers during the past year as ...

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Staffing

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Barchester Healthcare plans £2.2m solar panel investment

Barchester Healthcare is stepping up its investment in green technologies in 2024 with plans to ...

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Business

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Bluebird Care joins Tub2Pub campaign to aid cancer support

Home care provider Bluebird Care is taking part in Greene King's Tub2Pub campaign which aims ...

3 months

Wellbeing

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Research analyses Covid impact on care homes

New research by the University of Glasgow in partnership the Advanced Care Research Centre, University ...

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Clinical

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Care home urged to review burns procedures after resident death

A care home has been urged to review its procedures after a resident died partly ...

3 months

Clinical

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HICA Group acquires Bridlington adult care centre

HICA Group has acquired Swan House Day Centre in Bridlington in East Yorkshire for an ...

3 months

Wellbeing

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Jones appointed chief operating officer at BKR Care Consultancy

BKR Care Consultancy has appointed Charlie Jones as chief operating officer after working for the ...

3 months

People moves

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SURVEY: Deadline nears to share your thoughts on new immigration rules

The deadline is approaching to share your thoughts on how government changes to immigration rules ...

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Policy & Politics

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Migration committee warns of care worker exploitation risk

Government advisers have warned that changes to UK migrant rules risk “an increased risk of ...

3 months

Policy & Politics

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Staff promoted at Grosvenor Manor in Chester

New Care’s Grosvenor Manor Care Centre has promoted two of its most experienced and long-serving ...

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People moves

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Former care home manager ordered to pay £10k after CQC prosecution

A former Warwickshire care home manager has been ordered to pay £10,000 for failing to ...

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Regulation & Inspection

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Vivant employs personal assistants

London-based luxury home care service Vivant has employed eight experienced personal assistants, who, between them, ...

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People moves

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Project targets inappropriate medication use in care homes

HC-One Scotland and the Care Inspectorate have completed a project to reduce the use of ...

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Clinical

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Hallmark Luxury Care Homes opens Bath residence

Hallmark Luxury Care Home has opened a £23 million 80-bed, residential, dementia and nursing home ...

3 months

Property

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Adopt a Grandparent launches webinar series

Charity Adopt a Grandparent has launched a series of webinars to share its impact and ...

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Wellbeing

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Mayoral candidate backs social care reform

Independent mayoral candidate for York and North Yorkshire, Keith Tordoff, has called for root and ...

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Policy & Politics

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Advinia pursues legal challenge to Inadequate CQC rating

Advinia Health Care is “pursuing legal means” to challenge an Inadequate CQC rating.

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Regulation & Inspection

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Home care provider runs wish fulfilment campaign

A home care provider is running its third annual Genie in a Bottle campaign, aiming ...

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Wellbeing

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Anchor appoints executive director, business services

Anchor, a not-for-profit provider of older people’s housing and care, has appointed Julia Mixter as ...

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People moves

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We Care Group introduces PainChek

Care provider We Care Group has introduced PainChek’s digital pain assessment technology across its care ...

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Technology

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New general manager at Friends of the Elderly Malvern

Malvern-based Friends of the Elderly Malvern has appointed Jo Bennett as general manager.

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People moves

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Lovett Care acquires Kent care home from Aspire

Lovett Care has purchased a site from property developer Aspire at Kings Hill, Kent to ...

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Property

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Greensleeves Care acquires Norfolk home

Not-for-profit care provider Greensleeves Care has acquired Broadacres, a residential care home in Barton Turf, ...

3 months

Property

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Person Centred Software acquires social care platform

Person Centred Software has acquired ResHub, a platform that helps care workers with planning, wellness ...

3 months

Technology

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Berkley Care Group attains ISO 9001 certification

Luxury care provider Berkley Care Group has attained ISO 9001 quality management certification by the ...

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Regulation & Inspection

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Meallmore partners with musical exercise firm

Meallmore is partnering with Scottish musical exercise provider danceSing as part of a Scottish government ...

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Wellbeing

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Falkirk care home hosts Menopause Café

Wallside Grange Care Home in Falkirk is hosting a monthly Menopause Café event, aimed at ...

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Wellbeing

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HICA Group sponsors grassroots football team

HICA Group, a care provider based in Hessle near Hull, has announced its continued sponsorship ...

3 months

Wellbeing