If you support people with sight impairments as part of your working role, the following tips will help you understand the difficulties they may be facing and what…
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Runwood Homes - Yellow Ribbon scheme
At Runwood Homes, we believe that it is of utmost importance that we treat…
NACC Training & Development Forum 2019
NACC Training & Development Forum 2019: supporting care caterers in continued challenging times
The National Association of Care Catering (NACC) Training…
Carers seek to overcome loneliness on World Friendship Day
Carers seek to overcome loneliness on World Friendship Day
Manorcourt Homecare, a provider of home-based care services in Hornchurch and the…
apetito - It’s about more than what’s on the plate
At apetito, our cause is to make a real difference to our customers and community. We’re dedicated to doing business in an ethical and sustainable way, enhancing…
Log my Care launches new Photos and Zones features
New feature releases are a testament to the responsiveness of the software provider and how committed they are to being designed by carers for carers.
Log my…
Care homes invited to take part in annual 'road' cycling event
Motitech, the Norwegian startup motivating older people and those with dementia in care homes to engage in more physical activity, has announced its partnership with…
What does maintaining the ability to have a bath mean to you?
Enabling people to continue enjoying what they’ve always done and having the opportunity to try new things is an overriding philosophy of care at Newlands, part of…
Orchard Care Homes take on Mount Snowdon
Employees from Orchard Care Homes, one of the UK’s leading care providers for the elderly, have gone above…
Gen Z: The answer to care industry staff shortages?
A study conducted last year revealed that the level of vacant roles and turnover rates within the care industry are the highest they’ve ever been. One of the main…
MP praises “brilliant” team after visit to ‘outstanding’ local care home
The Member of Parliament for Morley and Outwood, Andrea Jenkyns, praised an ‘outstanding’ care home after she took part in its 20th birthday celebrations.
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Infection Prevention Society Care Home Special Interest Group
Care Homes have an important role in the epidemiology of antibiotic resistant bacteria due to the frequent admissions to hospital. It is important to remember that…
Care home nurses are REAL nurses
Recruiting and retaining the right care home nurses in order to tackle the social care crisis: by Lindsay Dingwall, Clinical/Academic Nurse Consultant for …
Wright Care Solutions Ltd
Wright Care Solutions Ltd. an award winning Advisory Team, originally established in 2006, moving to a Limited Company in 2012. Our services include: supporting homes…
Chatterbox goes silent to support those with cancer
A CHATTERBOX care home worker raised hundreds of pounds to support those with cancer by taking on a 12-hour sponsored silence.…
Borough Care launches new menus with apetito
Borough Care, the largest not-for-profit provider of care of older people in Stockport, has launched new menus at all of its eleven homes in conjunction with its…
Partnership to develop innovative wearable technology for residents at risk of falls
Essex County Council (ECC) and global innovation and transformation consultancy PA Consulting (PA) announce that they are working together to explore the potential of…
Seaside childhood memories rekindled for elderly residents
A SEASIDE trip was a walk down memory lane and brought back many childhood memories for elderly care home residents on an outing to…
mikrozid® universal - tough on germs, gentle on equipment
mikrozid® universal from schülke UK – experts in infection prevention – has a unique low alcohol formulation, with a dual action. Offering both cleaning and…
Care worker develops her own dementia-friendly app
Care worker Heather Mead found there was a lack of apps available to engage people with dementia – so set up her own business and created a dementia-friendly…
Future-proofing the workforce: flexible training for nurses
Sally Boyle, Head of School in the Faculty of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care at The Open University, discusses recruiting and retaining more nurses through…
Orchard Care Homes give activities some Oomph!
Orchard Care Homes, one of the UK’s leading care providers for the elderly, is pulling out all the stops to create fun, engaging and inclusive activities for its…
4 top tips for electrical appliance safety in your care home
Staff in the care sector need all sorts of electrical appliances to…
Leafield AquaPod Solves the Dregs Problem
Leafield AquaPod Solves the Dregs Problem!
“I want to put my disposable coffee cup in the bin but what should I do with the liquid dregs?” A problem we have…
Safe Heating Transforms Meallmore Care
Safe surface temperature specialists, Contour, have provided a comprehensive, multi-phase LST package to a significant Scottish care organisation.
Due to…
Tonbridge home care provider urges older people to stay hydrated this summer
Following the high temperatures this weekend, local home care provider Bluebird Care Tonbridge and…
Care home’s mini-festival inspired by Glastonbury
A GLASTONBURY inspired mini-festival took place at a Tyneside care home as part of Care Home Open Day.
The annual mega-festival at Worthy Farm, in Somerset,…
Legionella, the care home menace – a coroner’s perspective
Coroner Nicholas Rheinberg writes for Care & Nursing Essentials magazine about the cases he has experienced where Legionella caused the deaths of care…
Three Key Tenets of Outstanding Infection Control
Ben Kilbey, Business Development Manager at Spearhead Healthcare, on achieving outstanding infection control procedures in your care home…
Every care…
Using technology to advantage in health, aged, social services and home care
The CQC fundamental standards highlight the need to support people to express their views and be actively involved in making decisions about their home care,…
CQC calls for improvements to oral health in care homes
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has today published the findings of an in-depth review on the state of oral…