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• Register your home now for Care Home Open Day 2019

  03-12-2018 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Care England, National Activity Providers Association (NAPA) and National Care Forum (NCF) are pleased to be working together to support Care Home Open Day 2019.  
  Professor Martin Green OBE, Chief Executive of Care England says:
  “We have learned so much from the previous seven years of Care Home Open Day and 2019 is well on its way to being a fantastic celebration marking the importance of the arts in care”. 
  Care Home Open Day 2019 will take place on Friday 28 June 2
  
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• Barchester Healthcare CEO recognised for Outstanding Leadership at HealthInvestor Power 50

  03-12-2018 14:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dr Pete Calveley, CEO of Barchester Healthcare, was recently awarded The HealthInvestor Power Fifty Outstanding Leader prize at the HealthInvestor Power Fifty 2018 Awards. Presented the award by sponsor Harben Green Human Capital, Pete was recognised in front of his peers for his “resilient, visionary and pragmatic leadership having steered his company most successfully through the year”.
  The HealthInvestor Power Fifty celebrates the most effective and inspiring leaders across six ke
  
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• Hanover Housing Association and Anchor Trust announce successful merger

  03-12-2018 13:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Anchor Hanover, England’s largest provider of care and housing for older people, has been formed from the successful merger of Hanover Housing Association and Anchor Trust.
   
  With more than 60,000 homes across 1,700 locations supported by more than 9,000 colleagues, the new organisation formally launches today (Monday 3 December). Anchor Hanover Group, usually shortened to Anchor Hanover, operates in more than 90% of local councils in England.
   
  Both Anchor and Hanover started ou
  
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• £16 million European collaboration paves the way for new research into health and social care

  03-12-2018 11:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  UK Funders, including Alzheimer’s Society, have united with 15 countries across Europe, Australia and Canada to support international research collaborations into diseases of the brain, including those that cause dementia. The latest Joint Programme – Neurodegenerative Disease (JPND) funding awards represent a €17.5 million (approx. £15.75 million) investment over the next three years.
  James Pickett, Head of Research at Alzheimer’s Society, who led the UK funding of
  
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• Ipswich care home residents have been playing detectives

  03-12-2018 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Residents and staff at Handford House care home in Ipswich have been playing detectives at a Murder Mystery event, held at the home.
  The team hosted a special ‘Murder in the Manor’ evening, inviting residents, friends and relatives to join them for food, drink and entertainment, working together to solve clues and discover who murdered ‘Ginger Whiskers’.
  Several members of the team attended, playing suspects and dropping clues whilst helping the participants to investigat
  
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• Child prisons are beyond reform - it's time to stop jailing young people | Carolyne Willow

  03-12-2018 10:08
  These jails come from a bygone era and are not fit for purpose. We need an alternative to leaving children to languish in cellsJake Hardy was 17 years old when he hanged himself in prison in 2012. Minutes before, CCTV cameras captured other children crowded around his cell goading him to kill himself, while prison officers watched. Like so many imprisoned children, Jake had special educational needs and mental health difficulties.Jake’s mother, Liz, spoke at the recent launch of a new camp
  
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• Middlesbrough FC memorabilia help residents with dementia reminisce

  03-12-2018 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE BORO Foundation has been sending out memorabilia boxes to care homes to help residents with dementia reminisce.
   
  The boxes containing old programmes, tickets and photos, among other items from past Middlesbrough FC games, have been the centre of activities run at the homes.
   
  Mandale House Care Home, on Acklam Road, in Thornaby, was one of those benefitting from the scheme.
   
  The home works closely with the Middlesbrough FC Foundation’s National Citizenship Service (NCS
  
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• Movember mania at RMBI Care Co.

  03-12-2018 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Pictured L-R: Marc Nelson-Smith (Properties Director), Brett Edwards (Assistant Director Health & Safety), Mark LLoyd (Managing Director), Hilary Duffus (HR Systems Manager), Chiao Kwan (Marketing & Communications Officer) Front left: Amir Shrestha (Finance Manager)
  A dramatic growth in facial hair was witnessed at RMBI Care Co.’s Head Office last week as staff turned out to support Movember. 
  The team, including Managing Director Mark LLoyd, donned fake moustaches to help rai
  
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