RECENT NEWS

Matt Dodge, executive chef at dementia specialist care home Chelsea Court Place, features in the inspiring new series The Restaurant That Makes Mistakes, airing from 12 June at 9pm.

Stepnell has been awarded a £12 million contract to deliver a new luxury care facility in Eastcote, Solihull, featuring 84 rooms and apartments.

Following the current owner and manager’s decision to retire after 27 years, Glenhelenbank Residential Care Home in Luncarty, Perthshire, is now on the market.

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

A Facebook post about how night staff at Allithwaite care home wear pyjamas for the benefit of residents with dementia went viral reaching 13 million people in just seven days.

Groveland Park Care Home in Bexleyheath, in the London borough of Bexley, has been rated 'outstanding' overall by the Care Quality Commission; previously it was rated 'good'.

A multi-million pound Bracknell care home has marked its latest construction milestone; the Mayor of the Borough of Bracknell Forest, Councillor Alvin Finch, joined the Care UK team and representatives from Hamberley Development Ltd and Lawrence Baker, for a ‘topping out’ ceremony at Bickerton House in Bracknell.

MHA Stones Place care home resident, Kathleen Brown, has made a special birthday trip back to Lincolnshire country home, South Ormsby Hall, nearly 80 years after she worked there as a housemaid.

The National Association of Care Catering (NACC) declared Martin McKee of The Hawthorns, Aldridge, the NACC Care Chef of the Year 2019 on Wednesday 5 June, following a closely fought national final.

Sunrise Senior Living UK and Gracewell Healthcare’s health and safety advisor has secured a seat on the National Association for Safety and Health in Care Service (NASHICS) board.

Thistle Court Nursing & Residential Home in the village of Cwmbran, Monmouthshire, has been put up for sale.

When MHA Fitzwarren Court resident Bernard Berry settled in to life at the retirement living scheme, he didn’t expect that he would end up skydiving to raise funds for their amenity fund at the age of 83.

Person Centred Software is working on a demonstrator project with Sutton Council as part of the South West London Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) to digitise the transfer of documentation between care homes and hospitals.

Silverline Care, a care provider for the elderly which operates six nursing homes across Scotland and two nursing homes in Yorkshire, has appointed Thomas Cook as the company’s new financial reporting and systems manager.

The JLA group is delighted to announce the acquisition of Fire Facilities Management Limited (Fire FM).

Greasbrough Nursing Home in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, which is currently closed, has been sold to a first time buyer in the sector who plans to reopen the home.

A £5.5 million Hythe care home has marked its latest construction milestone with the help of a special guest.

Residents from MHA Bradbury Grange in Whitstable have been showing off their artistic talents in a recent exhibition at a local museum and gallery.

Hollybank House in Oakerthorpe, a 40-bed facility caring for elderly residents and one of three care homes operated by Only Care, commissioned Gainsborough to install a specialist wet room and accessible toilets for enhanced care.

Residents at a care home in Oxfordshire recently received a visit from some exotic guests.