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HC-One to close three embargoed Cambridgeshire care homes

HC-One has announced the closure of three embargoed care homes in Cambridgeshire.

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Tyne & Wear care home rated Good in all areas

A Tyne & Wear care home operated by Healthcare Management Solutions has been rated Good ...

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Suffolk care home gains tops marks for environmental health

A Suffolk care home is celebrating after gaining top marks following an environmental health inspection.

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Kingsley Healthcare issues robust response to Inadequate CQC rating

Kingsley Healthcare has made a robust response after its Downham Grange care home in Norfolk ...

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Huddersfield care home given six months to improve

A Huddersfield care home has been given six months to improve or face being shut ...

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Regulator finds significant improvements at Advinia care home

The Care Inspectorate has found significant improvement at an Advinia care home in Paisley, Scotland.

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Hamewith Lodge celebrates Care Inspectorate report

HC-One Scotland’s Hamewith Lodge home is celebrating its recent Care Inspectorate report which rated it ...

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Care leader begins work on global standard for healthy ageing

Greensleeves Care chief executive Paul Newman is leading the development of a new international standard ...

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Care service complaints continue to rise in Scotland

The number of complaints about care services in Scotland continued to rise in 2022/23.

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CQC urged to act as figures show one in five care homes below standard

Campaigners have called on the CQC to take “urgent action” over the one in five ...

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Runwood Homes care home placed in special measures

A Runwood Homes care home in Norfolk has been placed in special measures after being ...

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Healthcare Homes accused of ‘lack of professional curiosity’ in LA fees mix-up

Healthcare Homes has been accused of lacking “professional curiosity” after taking five months to bill ...

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Residents removed from Blackburn care home due to fire safety risks

Residents at a Blackburn have been moved to alternative accommodation after an inspection found serious ...

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Union calls off planned CQC strike action

Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) members have suspended three-day strike action at the CQC ...

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Athena Care Homes offers £1,400 refund for respite care ‘shortcomings’

Athena Care Homes has offered to pay a partial refund of £1,400 to the family ...

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Care home failed to assess resident’s CHC eligibility

A Birmingham care home has been found at fault for failing to assess a resident’s ...

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Care worker who mocked resident on social media given warning

A care worker who carried a social user over his shoulder and mocked her on ...

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MMCG care home marks one year anniversary with glowing inspection report

An Ayr care home has been rated Very Good in all categories a year after ...

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Orchard Care Homes apologises for care failings following resident’s death

Orchard Care Homes has issued an apology after a daughter complained her mother had been ...

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Councils call for scrapping of plans for single word rating of adult social care services

Councils have called on the government to scrap plans for a single word rating system ...

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Care home celebrates Good rating after multi-million redevelopment

A Surrey care home is celebrating a Good rating from the Care Quality Commission following ...

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Care worker jailed for nine months for ill-treatment of residents

A Chesterfield care worker has been jailed for nine months for ill-treating care home residents.

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Court announces preliminary date for choking death inquest

A preliminary hearing into the death of a care home resident who died after choking ...

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Nurse struck off for lying about care home resident’s death

A nurse has been struck off for saying a care home resident who choked on ...

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Barchester care home makes ‘significant improvements’ following critical report

Barchester’s Bridge of Don care home in Aberdeen has made “significant improvements” following a critical ...

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Police investigate two deaths at Cumbria care home

A police investigation has been launched into the deaths of two residents at a care ...

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Priory Group celebrates glowing report from Care Inspectorate

Priory Group has celebrated a glowing report from the Care Inspectorate for its Dunvegan care ...

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ITV exposes how ‘revenge evictions’ leave care home residents homeless

An ITV documentary last night exposed how thousands of vulnerable are being evicted from their ...

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Resident was ignored at Inadequate rated care home

An elderly person was ignored when shouting for help at an Inadequate rated care home ...

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Care provider and manager ordered to pay £145k over pressure sore death

A care provider and manager have been ordered to pay fines and legal costs of ...

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Staff celebrate Good CQC rating for Bromley care home

A Bromley care home has achieved a Good CQC rating in its first CQC inspection ...

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HC-One care home in East Sussex is ‘all good’

HC-One’s Haven care home in Peacehaven has been rated Good in all areas by the ...

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Inadequate rating a ‘wake up call’ says learning disabilities charity

Learning disabilities charity Freeways has described an Inadequate CQC rating for a Bristol care home ...

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Vida Healthcare celebrates Outstanding rating hat-trick

Vida Court in Harrogate has become the third Via Healthcare care home to achieve a ...

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Leicester care provider refuses to pay £500 remedy to former resident

A Leicester care provider has refused to pay a £500 remedy to a former resident ...

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Falmouth care home celebrates Good rating

Barchester Healthcare's Falmouth Court Care Home has been celebrating after it was rated Good in ...

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Advinia care home meets improvement notice requirements

An Advinia care home in Paisley, Scotland has met the terms of an improvement notice ...

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Support worker sanctioned for care home abuse

A care home support worker has been issued with a three-year warning on their registration ...

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Orchard Care Homes celebrates 100% Good care home rating

Orchard Care Homes is celebrating after achieving a Good CQC at all 23 of its ...

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Care provider fined £120,000 for ‘catastrophic’ Covid failures

A care provider has been order to pay £200,000 at Northamptonshire Magistrates’ Court after it ...

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Provider failed to respond properly to family’s complaint their mother had been treated roughly

A care provider has been found at fault by the Ombudsman after a family complained ...

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Sussex care home rated Good in all areas in first inspection

Buttermere House care home in Horsham, Sussex, has been rated Good in all areas following ...

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Larchwood Care says ‘lessons have been learnt’ after Ombudsman finds fault

Larchwood Care has said “lessons have been learnt” and changes implemented after the Ombudsman upheld ...

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ISO to develop international care standards for older people

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is to develop an international care standard for older ...

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Ombudsman ends investigation after care home drops after-death fee

The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has ended an investigation after a care home ...

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HC-One care home rated Good in all areas

HC-One’s Priorslee House in Telford, Shropshire has been rated Good in all areas by the ...

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North Wales home care agency praised by inspectors

A North Wales home care agency in Flintshire is celebrating after being praised by inspectors.

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Care home achieves Good rating after turnaround under new manager

A luxury Oxfordshire care home has achieved a Good CQC rating following the appointment of ...

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Care home issued with improvement notice over ‘significant concerns’

A Paisley care home has been issued with an improvement notice after an inspection by ...

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CQC pledges ‘business as usual’ despite staff strike

Disruption to CQC inspections is expected as a result of a one-day strike by unions ...

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CQC rating is ‘all good’ for Wiltshire care home

A Wiltshire care home has celebrated being rated Good in all categories by the CQC.

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Care provider and GP surgery failed to acknowledge daughter’s power of attorney status

A care provider and GP surgery have agreed to apologise to a former care home ...

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CQC appoints James Bullion interim chief inspector of adult social care

The CQC has appointed James Bullion as interim chief inspector of adult social care and ...

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Ombudsman issues rare Adverse Findings Notice to Leicester care company

A rare Adverse Findings Notice has been issued to a Leicester care company for a ...

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Extensive improvements result in Good rating for Beccles care home

Residents and staff at Black Swan Care Group’s Beccles Care Home are celebrating a Good ...

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Surrey care home covers resident’s moving costs following Ombudsman probe

A Surrey care home agreed to cover a resident’s costs after he was forced to ...

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Breaches still found at care home where resident suffered abuse

Breaches in relation to risks to people, staffing and quality assurance processes have been found ...

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CQC staff launch industrial action over pay dispute

CQC staff, include care home inspectors, have begun work to rule action this week in ...

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Cambridgeshire care home rated Good in all categories

Care UK’s Field Lodge care home in St Ives, Cambridgeshire has been rated Good in ...

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Plymouth care home rated Good in all categories

Plymouth-based Ernstell House Care Home has secured a Good rating across all five Care Quality ...

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Under embargo care home rated Good in all categories

A Cambridgeshire care home which is under a council embargo has been rated Good in ...

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Support worker struck off for borrowing £90 from care home resident

A care home support worker has been struck off for borrowing £90 from a resident. ...

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Methodist Homes pledges to bring Inadequate care home up to standard

Not-for-provider care home provider Methodist Homes has pledged to bring a Northamptonshire care home up ...

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Barchester hospitality team celebrates 5-star food hygiene rating

The hospitality team at Barchester’s Collingtree Park Care Home in Northampton has celebrated a 5-star ...

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OSJCT and Hartford Care celebrate Top 20 Care Home awards

The Orders of St John Care Trust (OSJCT) and Hartford Care are celebrating after being ...

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Cambridgeshire County Council extends embargo on HC-One care homes

Cambridgeshire County Council has extended an embargo on admissions to HC-One care homes by a ...

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HC-One admits ‘unacceptable mistakes’ as inquests into residents’ deaths close

Leading care home operator HC-One has admitted “unacceptable mistakes” following the conclusion of three coroners’ ...

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Research reveals harmful impact of care home evictions

New research from King’s College London has revealed the harmful impact on families whose relatives ...

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Suffolk care home celebrates second CQC Outstanding rating

Care UK’s Cleves Place in Haverhill has celebrated its second Outstanding rating from the CQC.

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Balhousie cancels care home registration due to recruitment and retention challenges

Balhousie Care Group has cancelled the registration of its Balhousie Huntly care home in Aberdeenshire ...

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Nurse suspended for abusing care home resident

A nurse has been suspended for six months after verbally abusing a resident and physically ...

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Councillor acknowledges social care ‘workforce deficit’ following damning report

An Edinburgh councillor has cited workforce challenges and the need for urgent investment in response ...

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Covid outbreak care home celebrates turnaround after Good rating

A Scottish Borders care home where eight people died during a Covid outbreak in 2020 ...

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CQC under fire over rating delay following care home resident’s death

The CQC has been accused of failing to keep residents safe after an 89-year-old man ...

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Council to ‘name and shame’ Inadequate care homes

Wirral Council is to publish CQC care home ratings on its website in order to ...

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CQC staff vote for industrial action over pay

CQC staff have voted for strike action over pay workforce union UNISON has revealed.

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Aberdeen care home rated Weak for leadership and care planning

An Aberdeen care home’s leadership and care planning has been rated Weak following an inspection ...

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Bupa care home achieves third Outstanding rating

Eglantine Villa Bupa Care home celebrates its third Outstanding CQC report. Eglantine Villa Bupa Care ...

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Southeast has most Inadequate care homes, new research finds

The Southeast has the most Inadequate care homes in England new analysis of CQC ratings ...

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Ideal Carehomes home rated Good in first inspection

A Derbyshire care home is celebrating after receiving a ‘Good’ rating in its first ever ...

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Royal Star & Garter care home rated Outstanding in first inspection

Royal Star & Garter in High Wycombe has been rated Outstanding in its first CQC ...

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Home Office arrests six in operation targeting illegal working in care industry

Six people have been arrested as part of a Home Office investigation into illegal working ...

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Home care service achieves good rating in first review

A home care company based in High Wycombe is celebrating after achieving a ‘good’ rating ...

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Family still angry over grandmother’s facial injuries at Glasgow care home

A family have said they are still seeking answers over the facial injuries suffered by ...

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Highlands care home rated Very Good by Scottish regulator

Innis Mhor, part of the Parklands Care Homes group, has been rated Very Good for ...

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Rescued Liverpool care home still in special measures

A Liverpool care home that was saved from closure two years ago has remained in ...

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Social care system ‘failing’ service users who challenge local authority decisions

People receiving social care in England and Wales are being failed when they try to ...

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Care UK care home rated Good in all areas

A Care UK care home in Darlington has been rated Good in all five areas ...

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Essex care home gains Outstanding rating

Essex care home Cedars Place has achieved an Outstanding rating two years after it was ...

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Ideal Carehomes celebrates Good rating for Stockport service

Ideal Carehomes’ staff and residents at Brinnington Hall care home in Stockport are celebrating following ...

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Five people handed anti-slavery orders for care home worker ‘exploitation’

Five people suspecting of recruiting and exploiting Indian students working in care homes in North ...

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MHA celebrates Good rating for Hastings care home

Staff and residents at MHA Hastings’ Lauriston care home are celebrating after being rated Good ...

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Ombudsman issues guide for care providers on good record keeping

The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has issued a guide to help care providers ...

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Ombudsman finds fault with care home’s medication administration and communication

A Staffordshire care home has agreed to pay a ‘symbolic sum’ and apologise to the ...

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Rapport Housing and Care investigated by social housing regulator

The Regulator of Social Housing is carrying out an investigation into Rapport Housing and Care’s ...

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Four arrested after incident at Dorset care home

Four staff members have been arrested following an incident at a Dorset care home.

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Bupa Care Homes fined £400k after falling tree crushes child

Bupa Care Homes has been fined £400,000 after an eight-year-old girl suffered major injuries from ...

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Almost half of care homes found failing in England during risk-based inspections

Almost half of care homes in England were found to be failing in 2022 as ...

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Ombudsman finds fault with care home’s treatment of resident with gout

The Local Government & Social Care Ombudsman has found fault with a care home following ...

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Parklands Care Homes celebrates top marks for supporting residents

Staff and residents at Parklands Care Homes group are celebrating after receiving top marks from ...

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