RECENT NEWS

Specialist business property adviser, Christie & Co has successfully completed the sale of Acacia Nursing Home in Yeovil to Somerset-based care home operator, Camelot Care Ltd.

A Glasgow care home has given invaluable training to parishioners and Sisters of a local church to help raise further awareness of dementia.

Residents in Kenilworth are celebrating after their home helped WCS Care become the first care home provider in England to have five homes recognised as ‘outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

National Care Association (NCA) welcomes the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) State of Care report, which acknowledges that the care sector is facing unprecedented financial constraints at a time when there is a rising need for care and support.

Gainsborough Specialist Bathing, a supplier of assistive baths, achieved healthy enquiries and orders for its new product range at the Care & Dementia Show, which took place at the NEC last week.

Chubb Community Care, part of Chubb Fire & Security Ltd, will showcase its carephone system, CareUnity, and its assisted living solution, Chubb Care System, at the International Technology Enabled Care Conference on 18-19 October at Birmingham’s International Convention Centre.

The chief executive of Borough Care Kathryn Farmer has been shortlisted for one of the care sector's most prestigious awards for her innovative approach to dementia care.

Charlton Kings Care Home in Cheltenham has been sold by specialist business property adviser, Christie & Co.

Commenting on the findings of the Care Quality Commission’s ‘State of Care’ report, Professor Martin Green OBE, chief executive of Care England, says: "I am proud to say that CQC’s State of Care report shows that at a time of unprecedented financial constraints and rising need for care, 71 per cent of the adult social care services inspected were rated ‘good’.

A local artist has been appointed by Care UK to produce a special sculpture for the gardens of Glastonbury Court care home in Bury St Edmunds.

White Oaks, a provider of services to the care and residential living market, has launched a new range of business solutions.

The National Association of Care Catering (NACC) has crowned the winners of the NACC Awards 2016 at its annual gala dinner.

Chelsea Court Place, a luxury, purpose built residential and day care home for residents with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia has opened in the heart of London.

Chubb Community Care, part of Chubb Fire & Security Ltd, has been awarded a place on a significant framework agreement with ESPO, a public sector-owned professional buying organisation, to deliver the latest technology-driven care solutions to organisations throughout the UK.

St Mary's Haven, a care home in Penzance, Cornwall has been sold by specialist business property adviser, Christie & Co.

A heart-warming video of 97 year-old Mary Reynolds, who spoke to the BBC about the letters she wrote every day to her great friend Cathy, has moved young people across the country and has been viewed over 100,000 times on Facebook.

Mark LLoyd has been appointed Managing Director of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution Care Company, as successor to David Innes, and starts Today 3 October 2016.

Councillor Noel Barrett-Morton, the Mayor of Marlborough has cut the ribbon to open the home's newly-built 'destination area' and refurbished dementia care household.

Anchor has further strengthened its Board with the appointment of two non-executive directors.

The proportion of people dying with a recorded dementia diagnosis has more than doubled since 2001.