Care Homes

11th July 2019

Bromsgrove residents say “living in a care home should not be a barrier to being heard”

A group of Sheffield nursing home residents are helping shape the city’s health services. Broomgrove – which is sited just off Ecclesall Road – has become […]
18th June 2019

Embedding workforce optimisation in the care home psyche

By Charles Armitage, CEO of Florence – the marketplace for care homes to find qualified RGNs, RMNs and HCAs to fill their temporary shifts. The social […]
13th June 2019

Disabled resident stars in topping out ceremony for charity’s new centre of expertise

UK charity Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation for Disabled People (QEF) marked the ‘topping out’ of its new Care and Rehabilitation Centre in Leatherhead, Surrey and asked disabled […]
13th June 2019

We salute you, Captain Glass

Captain Duncan Glass retires after ten years as Chairman of The Royal Alfred Seafarers’ Society After a decade at the helm as Chairman of Trustees of […]
10th June 2019

Care home crisis as nearly 10,000 beds lost from half of England’s local authorities

In total 9,772 beds have been lost in five years in those areas that have seen a decline Sunderland sees 15% fall in beds for the […]
10th June 2019

Cygnet Cedars rated ‘Outstanding’ across all five assessment categories by CQC

Cygnet Health Care now has the only three learning disability hospitals in the country to have achieved this extremely rare accolade Cygnet Health Care is delighted to […]
7th May 2019

Modular: 21st Century construction,19th Century technology?

Image courtesy of the N-house which features ThermaSkirt skirting board heating Martin Wadsworth, managing director of discrete heat, discusses what’s really happening in the modular construction […]
6th May 2019

Thank you Lily

Many, many thanks to Campion School A Level student, Lily Caton, who visited our residents at Heron Court care home in Brentwood Road, Herongate, to present […]
27th March 2019

Care Homes and CCTV

Black Box encourages owners to debate the options The use of CCTV in care homes is a controversial debate which has been ongoing for a number […]