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Cambridgeshire care home placed into Special Measures
The Care Quality Commission has placed Orchard House in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire into special measures following inspections in October. During the unannounced inspections, CQC found the provider was...
Recognition For Springhill
Accrington-based Springhill Care Group has won a series of awards at a major regional ceremony marking the region’s best carers. Springhill Care provides a wide range of long-term personalised...
Care home provider gets creative by teaming up with arts charity
Akari Care has joined forces with Equal Arts to provide creative opportunities to their residents. The Birmingham-based company Equal Arts manages the HenPower project which has been...
3M SUPPORTS MOVEMBER
3M has launched a light hearted video to show-off some respirator-suitable facial hair in a bid to support Movember. To raise awareness and funds for male health, science-based technology...
CQC Survey Reveals ‘No Notable Improvement’ in People’s Out-Of-Hospital Mental Health Care
A Care Quality Commission survey of over 13,000 people who were treated and cared for in the community for their mental health problems has shown ‘no notable improvement’ in the last...
CQC invites providers to comment on fee payment scheme changes
The Care Quality Commission, CQC, is encouraging providers and the bodies that represent them to help shape the changes it has to introduce to the fee payment scheme. The CQC is required to change...
Rheumatoid arthritis breakthrough offers hope for transforming patient care
Scientists from Cardiff University have discovered what they believe has the potential to prevent the onset of an aggressive and hard-to-treat form of rheumatoid arthritis, a condition that affects...
Memory complaints in older women signal memory and thinking problems in later life, research suggests
Older women reporting problems with their memory may be at a higher risk of being diagnosed with memory and thinking impairments, including dementia, decades later, a study published in medical...
One in seven over-55s have been targeted by suspected pension fraudsters
New research from Portus, the employment benefits consultancy firm, has revealed one in seven over-55s have been targeted by suspected pension fraudsters since the launch of pension freedoms. The...
Withdrawing Alzheimer’s drug early doubles risk of moving to nursing home, says UCL
Research conducted at University College London (UCL) has revealed that withdrawing a commonly prescribed Alzheimer’s disease drug from people in the advanced stages of the disease doubles...
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