RECENT NEWS

Innovative ‘red bags’ that help care home residents admitted to hospital be discharged quicker are being rolled out across the country.

Hallmark Care Homes in association with Care England will attempt to raise £100,000 for Alzheimer’s Research UK and The Care Workers Charity at a glittering fundraising event in Mayfair.

Two 83-year-old pensioners were given a once in a lifetime chance to become the Bield Deacon and Bield My Lord at this year’s Linlithgow march and gala.

Care UK’s Silversprings care home was transformed into a scene from 1940s Britain with wartime singing, dancing and traditional celebrations last Saturday.

LifeCare Residences, the luxury retirement community operator, is hosting an open day at the Albert Suites, its boutique, luxury nursing and rehabilitation facility, located opposite Battersea Park in London.

RMBI has opened a boutique care centre at Devonshire Court in Oadby in Leicester.

Maryanne Scriven has been appointed group clinical development lead for the Hartford Care family.

A new report ‘SAFE: Banishing Medication Errors in Care Homes (Safeguard Against Frontline Errors)’ has been published by Omnicell UK & Ireland, a provider of automated healthcare and medication adherence solutions.

Borough Care, the not for profit provider of care for older people in Stockport, has partnered with Oomph! to provide its residents with more day trips out to destinations further afield.

A furniture manufacturer that has been putting comfort into care for over half a century has unveiled a new ownership and management structure to drive future growth and development.

An award-winning Scarborough care business has announced exciting new expansion plans as it takes over an established home in the town.

The emergency services and care homes are using 40 stone manikins in training exercises to practice rescuing obese people.

An Inverness care home has been transformed and is now providing the highest standard of care to its residents after being acquired and refurbished by Meallmore.

A budding young artist from Cramond Primary School has been crowned the winner of a local art competition run by Edinburgh care home Cramond Residence.

Borough Care has appointed apetito as its catering partner, introducing apetito meals into all 11 of its residential homes in Stockport.

A specialist dementia care home in Chorley has taken some of its residents back in time to experience past memories with the help of a virtual reality app.

Care home provider Barchester Healthcare has paid special tribute to all the carers throughout the company for National Carers Week, to thank them for their dedication to the residents and patients they care for.

The BHTA (British Healthcare Trades Association) has appointed Mandie Lavin as its new director general; she is a practising barrister and brings great experience to the BHTA from a career spanning healthcare, law and accountancy.

Hull care organisation, Hica Group, has hit the right notes with care home residents after investing in a music therapy initiative.

The Care Quality Commission has found the quality of care provided by Foxgrove Residential Home in Felixstowe, Suffolk, to be 'outstanding' following an inspection in April.