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• Springhill staff step up responsibilities in care

  07-06-2018 20:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Anne Wareing, Susan Balazs and Deborah Bennett
  Springhill Care Home has created three new roles which will see staff stepping up to take responsibility for key areas of care.
  The new positions, clinical leads, will play the important role of maintaining and raising the standards of care at the Accrington home.
  The three staff are qualified nurses: Susan Balazs will be the palliative care lead, with Ann Waring holding responsibility for medication and infection control. Deborah Bennett will lead
  
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• Recruitment and retention of capable, valued and supported care staff has never been more critical

  07-06-2018 11:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Findings from the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) ‘Driving Improvement’ report – exploring how adult social care services from across the country have managed to turn around their inspection quality rating from ‘inadequate’ to ‘good’ – show that the recruitment and retention of capable, valued and supported staff has never been more critical to achieving the high quality care everyone has a right to expect.
  Published today (Thursday 7 June),
  
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• Charity opens Scotland’s first Dementia Friendly Park

  07-06-2018 10:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Maureen Watt, Minister for Mental Health with Tricia Cumming at Stirling Walking Network’s Dementia Friendly Health Walk at Kings Park in Stirling.
  SCOTLAND’s first ever Dementia Friendly park launched this week in one of Stirling’s best used recreational areas by walking charity, Paths for All.
  In a bid to make Stirling’s Kings Park more accessible to everyone, the city space has been transformed to allow those living with dementia to be able to enjoy, and feel
  
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• SweetTree Home Care Services scores hat-trick with IiP Gold award

  07-06-2018 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  They’ve done it again! SweetTree Home Care Services, which provides home and live-in care services to people across London, has been re-awarded the Gold Investors in People accolade, recognising the company’s commitment to helping its staff deliver their best performance in the workplace.It comes just months after SweetTree was announced as one of the UK’s Top 100 Best Companies to work for and it has also been rated as ‘Outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Comm
  
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• Enthusiastic sailors from Peterborough care home transported down The River Great Ouse

  07-06-2018 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Ladybird canal boat docked at Hartford Marina in Wyton recently to pick up staff and residents from HC-One’s The Elms care home in Peterborough.
   
  Enthusiastic sailors were transported down a beautiful stretch of The River Great Ouse, feeding ducks and swans as they glided by before ending the wonderful journey back at the marina.
   
  Residents with a love of the great outdoors enjoyed an appetising picnic on board the boat, breaking out in to a singsong of traditional sailing
  
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• Esk Valley Camphill Community launches £1million appeal

  07-06-2018 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
   
  Some members of the new community (left to right) Michael Mitchell (Long term Botton resident and now part of EVCC), Patrick Zimmermann (EVCC Co-worker & Shared Lives Carer), Jonathan Reid (EVCC Co-worker & Shared Lives Carer), Becky Orrah (Avalon Service Manager – behind), Felicity Barron (Long term Botton resident and now part of EVCC), Jemima Gwynn with Penelope (EVCC Co-worker & Shared Lives Carer)
  Some 200 people gathered in Danby Village Hall to celebrate the launc
  
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• Colten Care leads the way to reduce single-use plastic

  07-06-2018 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  WASTE NOT. Abbey View care home in Sherborne, Dorset, will save nearly 19,000 plastic bags from landfill every year by taking a different approach to the daily clean of residents’ waste bins. Pictured, from left, are: Jo Ellis, Home Manager; Carol Martin, Domestic Supervisor; and Gill Holland, Clinical Lead.
  Colten Care has become the first major provider in the UK’s private care home sector to begin a group-wide reduction of single-use plastic.
  The family-owned operator, which has 20
  
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• Golden girls: how beauty therapy boosts self-esteem in care homes

  07-06-2018 08:30
  Far from being a frivolity, beauty treatments can lift residents’ moods and encourage a sense of individuality “One of my clients is 99,” says Kelly Antony. “She never wore makeup all her life and now she’s probably one of the most glamorous ladies in the care home.”Antony works as a beautician in care homes across south Wales with her company Beautiful You. Far from being a frivolity, she argues that treatments can lift residents’ moods and boost self-
  
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• Home care staff feel the strain of caring for people with dementia

  07-06-2018 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  More support needed to protect home carers from emotional pressures of providing support to older people with dementiaCare workers who provide personal and domestic care to older people with dementia in their own homes are at risk of feeling under emotional strain and some don’t get as much support as they need, according to a new study.
   
  Researchers at Kingston University and King’s College London explored some of the pressures facing home care workers in London and the South
  
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