Category: Care home news
CARE PROVIDER SEEKS 500 PEOPLE TO SUPPORT NHS COVID RESPONSE
The NHS has called upon Encore Care Homes to provide urgent specialist care to older people as Dorset’s hospital beds fill with COVID-19 patients. Encore Care Homes, which has four...
BRINNINGTON HALL CARE HOME SCOOPS NHS STAR AWARD
Staff and residents at a Stockport care home have been celebrating as they triumphed at the NHS STAR Awards. The awards are organised by NHS Stockport CCG and Stockport Council as a way of...
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE CARE HOME MANAGER CONFIRMED AS YOUNGEST IN ENGLAND
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have confirmed that a 22-year-old General Manager in Kettering is the youngest Registered Manager of a care home in England. Residents and staff at Elm Bank Care...
NEW YEAR BRINGS NEW APPOINTMENTS AT MARITIME CHARITY
Specialist maritime charity and care home The Royal Alfred Seafarers’ Society has made major appointments to its senior team following the retirement of two of its longest-standing team...
EAST YORKSHIRE CARE HOME RESIDENTS RECEIVE OXFORD-ASTRAZENECA VACCINE
All residents at The Manor House care home in Little Weighton have received the first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, making them some of the first in the world to receive the...
BELONG APPOINTS OPERATIONS MANAGER
Dementia specialist care provider Belong has appointed registered nurse Sue Goldsmith to the newly-created role of Operations Manager, in a move designed to enhance the local care operator’s...
WWII VETERAN RECEIVES COVID-19 JAB ON 97TH BIRTHDAY
A WWII veteran celebrated her 97th birthday by becoming the first resident in her care home to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Joan Sprigg, who served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), was...
SPECIALIST CARE PROVIDER TRANSFORMS SUMMERHOUSE INTO COVID-SECURE RESTAURANT
Residents at Westgate, a 24-hour support partnership for people with learning disabilities, mental health problems and physical disabilities, have enjoyed a meal in a pop-up restaurant in their...
CLOSE-CONTACT VISITS BANNED IN CARE HOMES
Following the news of a third UK lockdown, announced last night 4th January, close-contact indoor visits to care homes will no longer be allowed. Under the new rules announced by PM Boris...
CARE HOME CELEBRATES CHRISTMAS WITH INTERGENERATIONAL VIRTUAL TEA PARTY
The Hall Residential Care Home, in Thornton-le-Dale, has joined forces with Thornton Dale Church of England Primary School for a virtual Christmas party. Residents would normally mark the festive...
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