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• UK's largest provider to sell off 52 residential care homes

  01-03-2021 20:09
  
  Move by HC-One comes amid warnings Covid crisis threatens viability of private operatorsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe UK’s largest care homes company is to sell dozens of its homes and focus on more specialised care amid warnings that some operators are being pushed to the brink of closure.HC-One will sell 52 homes, almost one in six in its portfolio, as it moves away from providing residential care, where people might live for years, towards more hi
  
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• UK's largest care homes provider to sell off 52 facilities

  01-03-2021 20:09
  
  Move by HC-One comes amid warnings Covid crisis threatens viability of private operatorsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe UK’s largest care homes company is to sell dozens of its homes and focus on more specialised care, amid warnings that some operators are being pushed to the brink of closure.HC-One will sell 52 homes – almost one in six in its portfolio – as it moves away from providing residential care, where people might live for years,
  
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• Shoreham Care Home Residents Exploring Chinese Culture

  01-03-2021 10:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Residents at Cavell House care home in Shoreham have been exploring Chinese culture and have learned to speak and write in Mandarin.During celebrations for Chinese New Year, Cavell House’s kitchen assistant, Geri Nacci, who was born in Sanxi province, China, came into the home on her day off to teach the residents her native language.Geri also spoke about Chinese traditions with the residents as well as helping them to learn more about their Chinese zodiac sign. The residents also painted
  
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• Calls for the Budget to help care sector

  01-03-2021 09:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Next week’s Budget must include a once in a lifetime moment for the care of older and vulnerable people, care providers said today.They are urging the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, to take the bold step of tackling social care in his speech on Wednesday.Provider organisation The Independent Care Group (ICG) says extra funding for the sector would tackle the crisis in care which has left 1.4m people without the care they need.ICG Chair Mike Padgham said: “The Budget offers Rishi Sunak the
  
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• ‘Learning from events’ – free digital learning for managers in social care

  01-03-2021 08:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  ‘Learning from events’ is a free digital learning module, developed by Skills for Care, to equip adult social care managers with the knowledge and skills to carry out holistic learning reviews with their teams.Learning reviews bring people together to explore an adverse event or near miss, and the government asked employers in the Winter Plan to carry out a learning review after a COVID-19 outbreak, or near miss. Learning reviews allow teams to explore different perspectives and crea
  
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• Cambridge Care Home Plans For Better Times

  01-03-2021 08:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  It is very important for the well-being for everyone to have something ahead to look forward to. It makes you feel good and may also give an “atmosphere of growth” to your life, because the future seems bright.Lindsey, Lifestyle Coordinator at St Georges Court Care Home in Cambridge, and some of the residents decided to look forward and start planning for their St Georges Court garden.Many of the residents enjoyed maintaining their own gardens before they came to St Georges. They rem
  
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