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• Portishead care home staff celebrate 20th year anniversary

  30-04-2021 11:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Portishead care home has celebrated 20 years of delivering care in the community this month with a virtual party.Staff and residents at Petersfield marked the occasion on Friday 16th April with an afternoon tea party, with virtual attendance from family and friends, as well as Liam Fox MP and Alun Thomas, chairman of Shaw healthcare – which operates the care home.Included in the event was administrator Kay Kellet, the home’s longest-serving employee after joining in October 2013 as
  
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• Dundee’s health project – Steps to Health – has been awarded Dementia Friendly Walking recognition

  30-04-2021 08:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Managed by Leisure and Culture Dundee, the community health project Steps to Health has received walking charity Paths for All’s, Dementia Friendly Walking accreditation.Leisure and Culture Dundee’s Steps to Health community project aims to increase the number of inactive people walking in and around Dundee to improve their health and wellbeing. This long running project is a Scottish Health Walk Network member that prior to the Covid-19 pandemic offered nine free community Health Wa
  
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