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• Colten Care sees off other companies to win ‘Company of the Year’ at prestigious business awards

  26-10-2018 12:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Holding the trophy for Company of the Year is Mark Aitchison, Chief Executive. On the left is BBC presenter Sally Taylor and on the right is ITV’s Alastair Stewart.
  A south coast care home provider has seen off the challenge of companies from a range of sectors to win a coveted business award supported by blue-chip sponsors.
  Family-owned Colten Care, which runs 20 quality care homes with more 1,000 residents, won Company of the Year at the 2018 Solent Business Awards.
  Judges said the award
  
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• Coventry residents adopt hands-on approach to recruiting care staff

  26-10-2018 11:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Residents at The Knowles Care Home, in Tile Hill Coventry, are going back to work, joining the management team as Employment Consultants and assisting with the interviews for new care assistants.
  Valerie Underhill, a former secretary for the Coventry Evening Telegraph has lived at The Knowles since 2017. She took the opportunity to find out what she really wanted to know about the applicants by asking personal questions such as; what they like to do in their spare time and why they wish to work
  
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• Former footballer vows to put the boot into dementia by supporting Alzheimer’s Society

  26-10-2018 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Alzheimer’s Society Ambassador and Ex-Blackpool footballer unite with 2,800 people at Blackpool Memory Walk
  Anne Nolan and Ex-Blackpool football player Dave Sellera today joined a tide of around 2,800 people to unite against dementia at Blackpool Memory Walk.
  A former professional footballer living with dementia is determined to give the condition the boot. 
  Dave Serella, who played for Nottingham Forest, Walsall and Blackpool, is backing the Alzheimer’s Society Memory Walk fund
  
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• Lancashire brain injury service delighted with CQC inspection results

  26-10-2018 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  A brain injury service, the Elton Unit of Priory’s Highbank Centre, has been rated ‘outstanding’ for safety.
  The Care Quality Commission (CQC) gave the service – which also cares for those with other types of complex head injuries, as well as behavioural needs – top marks for its safety regime. The CQC inspects and regulates health and social care in England.
  In their review of the “are the services safe” category, the CQC said: “A relative comment
  
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• Care operators call on the Chancellor to ‘rescue’ social care – Budget news

  26-10-2018 05:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Care providers are calling on the Chancellor to include a rescue plan for the struggling social care sector in next week’s budget.
  The Independent Care Group says the country desperately needs measures to help the 1.4m people who are currently going without the care they need.
  And they say supporting social care makes sense not only from a caring perspective but from an economic one too, warning that the country is running out of people to provide care.
  It wants to see:Merging NHS health c
  
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