Care Home News And Home Care News For November 2011
Care News and Home Care News for November 2011 from care homes, nursing homes, dementia care homes, respite care homes, home care, adult day care centres and learning disability care homes. Also the latest Care industry news from care shows such as in Bournemouth and Birmingham. .
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Care home entrepreneur Phil Burgan has warned of a crisis in the elderly care market as the cost of looking after old people becomes unsustainable. - 30 November 2011
Sturgeon speeds up care home inspection reforms - 30 November 2011
Members of the public are being invited to have their say on plans for a new care home in Effingham - 30 November 2011
Concern grows for missing care home resident - 30 November 2011
Government grants CQC request for cash to fund inspections - 30 November 2011
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Care Home News & Home Care News: 29 November 2011
Hospital and care home watchdog criticised for its 'bullying' culture - 29 November 2011
36 jobs could be lost if proposals to close a Woodley care home are given the go ahead. - 29 November 2011
Staff look on as final knell is sounded for day care centre - 29 November 2011
Ban use of controlling drugs in care homes - 29 November 2011
A Closure-threatened Kingswinford care home won an astonishing reprieve - 29 November 2011
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Care Home News & Home Care News: 28 November 2011
Public meetings over plans to close cumbrian care homes - 28 November 2011
Ten charged with care home abuse - 28 November 2011
Taunton care home Calway House has a new nurse manager, Katrina Tant. - 28 November 2011
The NHS could save up to £1.7bn a year if hospitals and Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) treated more patients in the home, according to a new report - 28 November 2011
Revamped care centre is officially opened by the Mayor of Dudley - 28 November 2011
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Care Home News & Home Care News: 27 November 2011
Care home has too many beds, says former Olympian, Sharron Davis - 27 November 2011
SIX care workers at a Southern Cross nursing home in South Wales quit after an inquiry was launched - 27 November 2011
Cumbrian care home saved in buyout - 27 November 2011
A public meeting is to be held to discuss the proposed closure of three care homes in Allerdale as part of a shake-up in social care. - 27 November 2011
Two new multimillion-pound care homes in Hampshire are set to create up to 180 jobs - 27 November 2011
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Care Home News & Home Care News: 26 November 2011
Boston College plans to take over disused town care home - 26 November 2011
Woman spared jail for neglect charge - 26 November 2011
Care homes in Winchester and Lymington needed to cope with rise in dementia cases - 26 November 2011
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Care Home News & Home Care News: 25 November 2011
Bowles Lodge care home in Kent closes despite legal challenge - 25 November 2011
Nursing home closures inevitable, says Minister for Health James Reilly - 25 November 2011
A TRADE union has called for action to protect residents in care homes run by Four Seasons Health Care - 25 November 2011
New adult day care centre set to launch in Charford - 25 November 2011
Dogs in kennels are treated better than many of Britain’s elderly - 25 November 2011
New owners at doomed Southern Cross care homes - 25 November 2011
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Care Home News & Home Care News: 24 November 2011
TORYGLEN looks set to be the site of a new care home as part of a multi million pound project - 24 November 2011
Is this the end of the fees freeze on caring for older people? - 24 November 2011
Council bosses claim a new report backs up their controversial plan to demolish a Glasgow day care centre - 24 November 2011
A consultation has been launched into the future of Fosters care home in Fosters Lane, Woodley - 24 November 2011
Oaktree House care home in Bristol under investigation - 24 November 2011
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Care Home News & Home Care News: 23 November 2011
A Rochester day care centre for disabled residents could close under proposals to save £2.1m - 23 November 2011
Littleport care home inquest: Police investigated death - 23 November 2011
ALL Glasgow’s 20 day centres for the elderly and eight for people with learning disabilities will close next week because of the public sector strike over pensions. - 23 November 2011;
Poor care home treatment 'breaches human rights' - 23 November 2011
Care home bid for Thurso man branded 'scandalous' - 23 November 2011
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Care Home News & Home Care News: 22 November 2011
Medway Council has laid out its proposals for cutting £2.1m from its adult social care budget. - 22 November 2011
Domiciliary Care providers in England face inspections from April 2012 - 22 November 2011
Bosses at Currergate Nursing Home, in Skipton Road, Steeton, near Keighley, say they have taken “quick and effective action” - 22 November 2011
Care workers at Carers at Little Hayes, in Hayes Lane, Kenley, hold sit-in over redundancy row - 22 November 2011
Our staff did the best they could, says Highland care home owner - 22 November 2011
An adult day care centre in Derby is closing down as part of budget cuts at the city council. - 22 November 2011
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Care Home News & Home Care News: 21 November 2011
Care homes in Birmingham warned to take action over winter sickness bug - 21 November 2011
Crowborough care homes turned back time on 65th anniversary - 21 November 2011
A Stourport care home has unveiled new facilities - 21 November 2011
A SECOND MP has backed the Mail’s campaign to save Burton’s closure threatened Margaret Stanhope Centre - 21 November 2011
A new Fife-based care company has said it will create more than 100 jobs. - 21 November 2011
Glamis Hall in Wellingborough fails to attract private investors - 21 November 2011
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Care Home News & Home Care News: 20 November 2011
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) at the centre of a care home abuse scandal has spent millions of pounds on plush refurbishments - 20 November 2011
Consultation begins on Fosters Residential Care Home, Woodley - 20 November 2011
Adult Day care centre in Derby likely to shut as council bosses are advised to approve merger - 20 November 2011
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Care Home News & Home Care News: 19 November 2011
Stockton care home's minibus Wish - 19 November 2011
A NEW dementia care home will be built in north Hampshire - 19 November 2011
No room at adult day care centre in Porthmadog for frail woman - 19 November 2011
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Care Home News & Home Care News: 18 November 2011
Farnborough care home neglected 'essential standards' - 18 November 2011
A CARE home worker ( David Hippey) from Salisbury has been recognised for his outstanding commitment - 18 November 2011
Police seek two women over distraction burglary at Croydon care home - 18 November 2011
St Monica’s Day Care Centre, in St Ives Close, will be turned into a specialist dementia day care unit. - 18 November 2011
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Care Home News & Home Care News: 17 November 2011
Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies in row over care home plans - 17 November 2011
Delight as axe is finally lifted from the under-threat daycare centre Favell House - 17 November 2011
Pressure mounts for Kingswinford care home reprieve - 17 November 2011
Killed with a single punch: Patient, 89, dies in care home - 17 November 2011
Three care homes in the Grimsby area are 'about to close' - 17 November 2011
Kingswood nursing home assistant is cleared by jury - 17 November 2011
Billericay care home vows to create community at new facility - 17 November 2011
Adult Day Care centre in Lincolnshire to be demolished - 17 November 2011
Oldest twins in Britain celebrate their 102nd birthday at Ellon care home - 17 November 2011
A code of conduct and minimum standards of training is to be drawn up for health care assistants and care workers who look after the elderly in England. - 17 November 2011
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Care Home News & Home Care News: 16 November 2011
Care home quango faces claims it put patients at risk after failing to spot serious abuse - 16 November 2011
CARE HOME HOLDS CHARITY EVENT IN MEMORY OF ARTIST - 16 November 2011
SALFORD COUNCIL HITS OLD AND ILL WITH NEW CHARGES FOR TRANSPORT - 16 November 2011
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Care Home News & Home Care News: 15 November 2011
Key Care Solutions launch the care home price match promise - 15 November 2011
Legal rulings against councils' cheese-paring of adult social care are starting to flow thick and fast - 15 November 2011
Husband and wife guilty of care-home fraud - 15 November 2011
Care home operator to transfer last of its properties to new owners in next four weeks and CEO is to stand down - 15 November 2011
ONE of Bolton’s only two council run care homes will effectively close, if plans go ahead - 15 November 2011
Dismissed care home manager, Jayne Eaton, fights to restore her reputation - 15 November 2011
Bedsores killed care-home resident, 87, inquiry hears - 15 November 2011
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Care Home News & Home Care News: 14 November 2011
Last minute bid to save Leamington care home - 14 November 2011
Bupa report: Elderly at risk as cash-starved care homes face closure - 14 November 2011
Two dismissed from Currergate Nursing Home, Steeton - 14 November 2011
Care home builder latest north east firm to collapse - 14 November 2011
Old Cheltenham showroom to become adult day care centre and internet cafe - 14 November 2011
Councils 'in parallel universe over care home fees' - 14 November 2011
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Care Home News & Home Care News: 13 November 2011
Care home closure in Worcestershire is a huge blow for the elderly - 13 November 2011
Elaine Carruthers, manager of Epsom’s Orchard Centre, was declared best dementia care manager - 13 November 2011
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Care Home News & Home Care News: 12 November 2011
Fun and games at Bromsgrove care home - 12 November 2011
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Care Home News & Home Care News: 11 November 2011
A NEWPORT hotel could be turned into a care home for the elderly. - 11 November 2011
Two severely disabled adults have won a 'landmark' High Court battle against Isle of Wight Council over cuts to adult care. - 11 November 2011
CUMBRIAN CARE HOME WORKER GUILTY OF ILL-TREATING ELDERLY WOMEN - 11 November 2011
Dumbarton care home criticised - 11 November 2011
Care victory for disabled peoplein the Isle Of Wight - 11 November 2011
Mount Pleasant House, in Old Kilpatrick was judged as 'weak' for quality of care and staffing arrangements. - 11 November 2011
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Care Home News & Home Care News: 10 November 2011
THE future of two Bolton Council-run care homes could be decided on Monday. - 10 November 2011
Council under fire over proposals to close 30 adult day care centres in Lincolnshire - 10 November 2011
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Care Home News & Home Care News: 9 November 2011
Former Anglesey adult day care centre to become homeless shelter - 9 November 2011
Fight to rescue care homes as company folds - 9 November 2011
New Selby care home to create 20 jobs - 9 November 2011
Eighty-three-year-old Renee Remy died alone, confused and in pain at a care home in Northfleet. - 9 November 2011
Bed rails injured care home residents, a report has found - 9 November 2011
Families fighting the NHS for repayment of nursing home fees they were wrongly charged have won more than £20million - 9 November 2011
Councils boost reablement services with cash from NHS - 9 November 2011
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Care Home News & Home Care News: 8 November 2011
Cheltenham care home criticised by inspectors - 8 November 2011
The Winterbourne View scandal showed that those in long-term still need to be heard - 8 November 2011
A proposal has been launched to build an £8m super care home in Gorleston - 8 November 2011
Scots care home company Argus, with 780 staff, go into administration - 8 November 2011
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Care Home News & Home Care News: 7 November 2011
Care home bid in New Malden could create 90 jobs - 7 November 2011
Staff suspended for drug blunders and cover-up at home for elderly - 7 November 2011
Rebecca Reasbeck: Care home blaze accusation 'sick' - 7 November 2011
Barclays Corporate research shows care home operators back Dilnot Commission’s proposals on insurance - 7 November 2011
Day care centre users in Boscombe say they fear losing days out and activities under planned staff cuts - 7 November 2011
A groundbreaking investigation by the Guardian showed private equity firms' growing stake in the nation's care homes - 7 November 2011
Young helping old at city care home in Worcester - 7 November 2011
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Care Home News & Home Care News: 6 November 2011
Family's anguish over death of OAP in seven-hour care home ordeal at Eastbank Care Home, in Shettleston, Glasgow - 6 November 2011
Bradford care home plan has to go ahead - 6 November 2011
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Care Home News & Home Care News: 5 November 2011
Campaigners protest over Blackmore House care home - 5 November 2011
Serious concerns over welfare in Gillingham care home - 5 November 2011
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Care Home News & Home Care News: 4 November 2011
500 claims a week of abuse and neglect of the elderly in care homes - 4 November 2011
New owners take over former Southern Cross care home in Plympton - 4 November 2011
Botley gets a £5m care home for dementia sufferers - 4 November 2011
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Care Home News & Home Care News: 3 November 2011
Pensioners ‘trapped’ in Southport care homes after lifts break down - 3 November 2011
Protest group set up to fight cumbrian care home closure plan - 3 November 2011
Desperate carers appeal for help - 3 November 2011
Former Dudley mayor blasts council's "illicit" care home spending - 3 November 2011
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Care Home News & Home Care News: 2 November 2011
Care home in Capel Hendre 'safe' after deal struck - 2 November 2011
These dangerous drugs must be a last resort - 2 November 2011
Integration of health and social care requires local leadership and relationships of trust - 2 November 2011
Bidford care home celebrates dignity of its residents with activity day - 2 November 2011
Scorton care home accused of lack of care - 2 November 2011
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Care Home News & Home Care News: 1 November 2011
Plans for a new care home in Cheltenham - 1 November 2011
Highfield House, at 92 Higher Drive in Kenley Opens - 1 November 2011
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