RECENT NEWS

The elderly care division of the Dignus Group Limited, which owns and operates a group of four established care homes across the West Midlands has been sold to RD Capital Partners.

Celebrations were in order as Gracewell of Woking, on Streets Heath, marked its first anniversary.

HC-One is celebrating after taking home the prestigious Skills for Care accolade for ‘Best endorsed provider of learning and development’.

Registration is now live for Care Roadshows 2019; returning to five locations across the country, the organisers anticipate another successful year of networking, inspirational ideas and best practice advice.

Monica Budge is MHA’s oldest retirement living resident when it comes to living independently with just a little support from care staff as she marked her 106th birthday.

Borough Care, the largest not-for-profit provider of care for older people in Stockport, has appointed Lee Omar to its board of directors.

Wymondham care home, Windmill House, has achieved an ‘outstanding’ status following a recent inspection by the Care Quality Commission.

Barchester Healthcare has made it through to the final stages of the Pinders Healthcare Design Awards for the design of The Spires Care Home in Lichfield, which opened in 2018.

A family-run care home has been sentenced after a resident fell down a set of stairs and later died as a result.

The Royal Star & Garter Homes has bid farewell to its longest serving member of staff; health care assistant Barry Maunder has retired after 45 years with the charity, which cares for ex-servicemen and women and their partners living with disability or dementia.

The home manager of a Worcester care home has reached the finals of this year’s British Journal of Nursing (BNJ) Awards, designed to recognise the very highest levels of nursing in the country.

Residents at Low Furlong residential care home in Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, enjoyed a professional tea blending session during which they created their own bespoke tea, aptly named the Low Furlong blend.

Coombe Hill Manor care home in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames has been rated 'outstanding' overall by the Care Quality Commission.

The team at Langdon House care home in Chesterton, Cambridge bid farewell to CHS Group’s longest serving employee Jean Woor with a celebratory tea party.

Staff and residents at Brook House Nursing Home in Wembley recently enjoyed an Indian dance performance by local dancers visiting from the Sai Temple.

Gracewell of Newbury has opened the doors to its brand new Memory Care coffee shop and boutique.

Audley Group has raised over £1700 in a village-wide ‘bake off’ for the Dove Ward, Great Western Hospital; the event was part of a larger fund raising drive to support Audley’s care director, Joanna Lander, who is being treated for leukaemia at the ward.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has issued court proceedings against Care UK after it refused to refund residents who had to pay a compulsory upfront fee.

Staff and residents at a care home in Lincoln were joined by the mayor to celebrate the launch of a new home care service.

Silverline Care, a residential care provider for the elderly that operates six nursing homes across Scotland and two nursing homes across Yorkshire, has appointed two regional operations managers to look after its Scottish and Yorkshire homes.