RECENT NEWS

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has begun formal enforcement action against care homes that have failed to pay the data protection fee.

Staff and residents at MHA Fitzwarren House are celebrating after inspectors declared the care and support provided by the home to be ‘outstanding’.

Work has begun on the construction of a ground-breaking 55 bed assisted living development and a 77 bed care home, which will provide residential and dementia care.

A passion for providing delicious and nutritious food and a varied programme of activities to promote wellbeing has won awards for two Braintree care homes.

New Century Care care homes The Oaks in Lexden, Colchester and Buxton Lodge in Caterham‑on‑the‑Hill, Surrey took part in Elf Day celebrations, a national festive fundraiser organised by the Alzheimer’s Society.

Care Home Murals has launched a new range of Window Stick-Ups, an exciting new addition to its portfolio of tried and tested wallpaper murals.

Boulters Lock Care Home in Maidenhead welcomed a group of eight teenage volunteers onto a new project to interact and learn about careers.

Borough Care residents have welcomed the changes to the food on offer at meal times since the service was brought back inhouse earlier this year.

An RAF veteran is helping the charity that cares for him to raise money by designing one of its Christmas cards.

The latest addition to Care UK’s portfolio of homes will be a new care home being built at the Kent Medical Campus in Maidstone.

Anchor Hanover has been formed following the successful merger of the Hanover Housing Association and the Anchor Trust.

Dr Pete Calveley, CEO of Barchester Healthcare, was recently awarded The HealthInvestor Power Fifty Outstanding Leader prize at the Health Investor Power Fifty 2018 Awards.

Work has begun on a new 75 bed care facility in Dartford, Kent, with York-based DWA Architects providing construction drawings for the project.

Runwood Homes’ Warwick-based care home, Park View, is delighted to have been awarded ‘good’ in all areas following a recent inspection by the Care Quality Commission.

Staff at a care home in Lincoln are celebrating after receiving it received an overall ‘good’ rating following a recent inspection by the Care Quality Commission.

The manager of a Windsor care home has been announced as the UK’s best dementia care manager in a prestigious national awards ceremony.

Deputy Lord Left Lieutenant of Edinburgh, Edward Green recently unveiled the brand new luxury show suites at Queens Manor Care Home on Queensferry Road, where he cut the ribbon to the completed part of the home with an enormous pair of scissors.

Robert Gordon University (RGU) and Laurels Lodge Care Home will join forces for a year-long initiative into relationship centred care for people living with dementia, as part of a Life Changes Trust funding award.

A singing duo from Ashton-under-Lyne scooped the ‘Working Together’ award at the recent Borough Care Employee Awards 2018.

A care development site in Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire, has been sold on behalf of Mercian Developments to regional care provider, Taylor & Taylor.