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• Angela Swift Developments appoints interior design team for new developments

  20-11-2020 18:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Angela Swift Developments Group (ASDG) has appointed its interior design team for the next three new care homes in Carlisle, Harrogate and St Helen’s.
   
  Together the three developments have a total value of over £30m and will provide residential, dementia and respite care for elderly people.
   
  Construction of the Carlisle care home will start in spring 2021 with completion expected in summer 2022. All bedrooms will be en suite and facilities will include a hairdressing salo
  
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• Birchwood Smiles – a new initiative to show the smiling faces of care workers

  20-11-2020 18:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Birchwood House, the Tunbridge Wells-based care home, and sister company Birchwood Care Services, operating in the community, have unveiled Birchwood Smiles – a new initiative to show the smiling faces of its staff behind their masks.
  Every team member will now wear a lanyard around their neck, with a large picture of their smiling face on it. This will help them to engage with residents and clients, even when wearing full PPE.
  “So much of caring is about making a human connection an
  
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• Simply UK boosts senior management team

  20-11-2020 18:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Simply UK, the Glasgow-based real estate developer and owner of Morar Living, Scotland’s largest luxury care home provider, has expanded its senior management team with the appointment of Andy Curran as commercial director and Alistair Murray as head of procurement.
  They will be based from the company headquarters in Baillieston on the outskirts of Glasgow.
  Andy brings around 18 years industry and surveying experience and was formerly commercial director with McCarthy and Stone. He will be
  
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• Age UK calls for an immediate funding increase to support social care in the forthcoming Spending Review

  20-11-2020 17:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, 210,000 people over the age of 65  – one in seven of those receiving care before the pandemic – have seen a reduction in the care they have received, according to new Age UK estimates.
  Of the 13% (1.4 million)[i] of the population in England aged over 65 who were receiving care before the pandemic began:
   8% are receiving less care (112,000 people)
  7% are no longer receiving any care (98,000 people)
  i.e. a total of 15% (one in
  
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• Care UK finalist in UK IT Industry Awards

  20-11-2020 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Care UK reached the finals of a prestigious national award for the exceptional efforts its IT team put into ensuring care home colleagues could operate efficiently and keep residents and their families connected throughout lockdown.
  The in-house team was a finalist in the IT Team of the Year category at the UK IT Industry Awards, with Thames Water securing the overall title. The Care UK success was in recognition of the team members’ skill and effort on two key fronts:Boosting the availabi
  
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• Home care staff to be regularly tested for COVID

  20-11-2020 16:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Care workers looking after people in their own homes will be offered weekly coronavirus tests from Monday the Government announced today.
  Those working for CQC registered providers will receive weekly PCR tests to administer at home, which will help identify more asymptomatic cases and protect care users who are more vulnerable to the virus.
  Regular testing will give workers peace of mind by picking up on any asymptomatic transmission and protect those they care for.
  The expansion of testing to
  
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