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A former manager at an Abergavenny care home denied ill-treating
patients, telling a court that he loved them and got on well with them.
Howard Griffiths, 53, of Wordsworth Close, Ebbw Vale, was night
manager at Rozelle Care Home and is on trial at Newport Crown Court.
He denies ten charges of ill-treating a person without capacity, which
relate to elderly people in his care, who were...
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? A DEDICATED manager of a Rhyl Extra Care Scheme has been presented
with a special award recognising her commitment to professional
development.
Glenys Roulston, manager of Hafan Gwydir in Llanrwst and Gorwel
Newydd Extra Care Centre in Rhyl, was presented with the Dr Buddug Owen
Award for Performance Development at a recent meeting of Pennaf Housing
Association.
The award is presented annually to the employee who has shown an
outstanding commitment to training...
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?For those of you that are interested in moving down under, you can find a wealth of great information by clicking here: New Zealand Immigration packs
We are now recruiting Nurses, Managers and Pharmacists in New Zealand.
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?The manager of a domestic care and support services agency has been
fined £1,800 by magistrates at Cheltenham in Gloucestershire.
The Care Quality Commission brought the prosecution against Mrs
Kathryn Hopkins, of Tidswell Close in Quedgeley as manager of Care and
Domestic Services South West Ltd.
Mrs Hopkins pleaded guilty on Monday 7 June to a charge of managing a
domiciliary care agency while unregistered between January 2008 and
February 2009. By law agencies offering personal...
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?A company which runs a nursing home in Essex has today been fined after
an elderly man was lowered into a bath filled with water possibly as hot
as 72°C.
Michael Ginn, aged 72, was living at West House Nursing
Home in St Vincent's Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, Southend, when he suffered
first degree burns to his feet on 5 May 2009.
Mr Ginn, who is
unable to walk, was being bathed by two care...
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?A 66-YEAR-OLD woman who went missing from a nursing home in Borrowash has been found in Glasgow.
Pauline Gregory had been missing for nearly a fortnight after she was last spotted getting off a Red Arrow bus in Nottingham on May 27.
Police had grown increasingly concerned for her safety as she was on medication that was believed to have run out.
Derbyshire police said officers in the Scottish city found her yesterday and...
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?But most people in Britain seriously underestimate how expensive care fees are; and few are seeking advice on how to meet them, according to a new survey by Partnership, the insurance company.
It found that most of the over-fifties thought care fees would be less than £30,000 a year; with a third saying they believed that the costs would be under £20,000. In reality, the average care home costs £36,000 a year,...
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?A nurse who ran a care home has been jailed for 10 years for killing one of her elderly residents. The court heard how Rachel Baker gave 97 year old Lucy Cox lethal doses of medication at the Parkfields home near Glastonbury.
In an unprecendented police investigation, detectives originally examined the deaths of 12 residents - Baker was eventually found guilty of killing just one. Sentencing her for manslaughter, the judge said...
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? A St Albans care home manager has been recognised for her outstanding contribution to the lives of her elderly residents.
Julie Oakley-Reid, manager of Jane Campbell House, was handed the Leadership 2010 gong by the care home provider, Quantum Care Awards.
Voted for by residents, relatives and staff at the care home, in Waverley Road, Julie received several nominations praising her exemplary leadership skills.
One nomination read: “As a relative of my 98-year-old...
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? A care home manager who displayed "an element of cruelty" in abusing a
service user with learning disabilities has been struck off.
Angela Turner, manager of the Elms Residential Unit in Birmingham,
told the male resident "my dogs are cleaner than you" and instructed
staff not to help him deal with his incontinence, a General Social Care
Council conduct committee found.
Turner, who was employed by Birmingham Council as manager of the Elms
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?A care home manager who displayed "an element of cruelty" in abusing a service user with learning disabilities has been struck off.
Angela Turner, manager of the Elms Residential Unit in Birmingham, told the male resident "my dogs are cleaner than you" and instructed staff not to help him deal with his incontinence, a General Social Care Council conduct committee found.
Turner, who was employed by Birmingham Council as manager of the Elms...
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?POLICE say they remain "suspicious" about the deaths of some of care home killer Rachel Baker's former residents in the wake of her conviction for manslaughter.
Baker, 44, who stole medication from elderly patients to feed her own addiction to Class A drugs, was yesterday found guilty of the manslaughter of Lucy Cox, 97.
She was cleared of the manslaughter of Frances Hay, 85, another resident at the Parkfields Residential Care Home, in...
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A SECOND care manager has appeared in court accused of ill-treating or neglecting a disabled man who scalded himself in the bath.
Mr Collingwood, aged 33, faced Plymouth magistrates after the man was badly injured by hot water at an address in Wotter.
Collingwood, did not indicate his plea to two charges of ill-treating or neglecting someone in his care lacking mental capacity in October 2008.
Gareth Warden, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said...
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"Commission based Social Care Recruitment: Point Nine Recruitment are now the leading Internet based Care, Nursing and Crisis Management recruitment company in the UK. We are continuously expanding and work with all of the leading social care organisations.
We have a huge candidate base throughout the UK and therefore we are currently seeking experienced recruitment consultants to join our successful team at Point Nine.
Our consultants are earning up to £10,000 per month,...
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The manager of a care home in Wiltshire who stole nearly £20,000 from one of her patients has been jailed for 10 months at Swindon Crown Court.
Maria Arthur, who ran the Care Home in Swindon, stole savings and inheritance from Juliet Wylie over a two-year period up to December 2008.
It was only discovered after Ms Wylie's sister went through her accounts.
Judge Douglas Field said Arthur had broken a high...
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As the end of a turbulent 2009 approaches, market analysts Plimsoll have examined the highs and lows of the care home sector and flag-up threats and opportunities facing the market in 2010.
Plimsoll says 310 companies in the market are finishing the year in financial difficulty. David Pattison, author of the new Plimsoll Analysis: An assessment of the top 500 companies in the UK Care Homes industry, said the recession had...
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The CQC inspects all registered care homes to make sure they meet national minimum standards, which are set by the Department of Health. The CQC only registers care homes if they meet these standards.
National minimum standards set acceptable levels of things like:
- health and safety
- access to facilities
- access to education and employment
- quality of furnishings and fittings
- personal care
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Only 50% of employees in the UK rate their managers as effective, according to research conducted by the Kenexa
Research Institute (KRI), a division of global provider of business solutions for human resources Kenexa.
The KRI survey of more than 22,000 employees in 18 countries shows that a "good manager" has a significant impact on the
engagement levels of those workers on their teams and on their overall perception of the company.
Employees' evaluations of...
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Relatives of residents at a Nottinghamshire care home are urging the county council not to sell it.
Campaigners held a meeting on Tuesday to fight to keep the care home in Worksop in the hands of the authority.
The council is considering selling off 13 care homes as part of plans to save £85m over the next three years.
Jane, whose mother is at the care home said: "The staff and Care...
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Care home manager Julie Wood has reached the final of a national Special Needs Manager of The Year competition.
Julie, who runs the Kirkgate House care home in Bridlington, won her place in the final of the Caring Times awards after being nominated by the HICA Care Home Group.
She will be interviewed by a panel of judges in London and the national winner will then be announced at a gala awards evening...
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People with dementia - who occupy a quarter of all hospital beds - are staying far longer in hospital than people without the condition who go in for the same treatment.
This is costing hundreds of millions of pounds to the NHS, an Alzheimer's Society report found today (Tuesday, 17 November 2009). Based on research involving 2,400 people,Counting the Cost: caring for people with dementia on hospital wards reveals large, costly variations...
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CSCI acts to cancel Market Harborough care home's registration
The social care regulator, the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI), has obtained a court order to cancel the registration of a residential care home in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, after the safety and welfare of the elderly residents were judged to be at serious risk.
Using its legal powers, the Commission successfully applied for an urgent order from Leicester Magistrates' Court on Friday (28...
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The transformation of a boarded-up Wolverhampton pub into a care home for the elderly will cost around £5 million, it has been revealed.
Concern has already been voiced about the loss of yet another of the region’s pubs – but it would create up to 75 jobs.
But applicant Care Developments Ltd is pushing ahead with plans to bulldoze the landmark former Hare & Hounds in Stowheath Lane to make way for the...
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Commission for Social Care Inspection closes Acorn Lodge care home, Leics, as police make arrests
The Commission for Social Care Inspection has acted to close Leicestershire care home Acorn Lodge, Market Harborough, after finding that the welfare and safety of its older residents were at serious risk.
The news comes with a police investigation already underway into alleged ill-treatment and wilful neglect at the home.
Leicestershire Police has arrested two women, aged 40 and...
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The Department of Health has given the green light for a full review of adult social care law in England and Wales, with the aim of creating a single over-arching statute.
The Department of Health has given the green light for a full review of adult social care law in England and Wales, with the aim of creating a single over-arching statute.
The review will be undertaken by the Law Commission, which today...
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A PROUD and private great-grandmother died after starving herself for nearly three months in a 'urine-soaked' residential home. Greta Campbell, 78, of Westmoreland Road, Douglas, weighed about four stone when she died in Noble's Hospital last month.
After spending nearly three months in Glenside Resource Centre, Douglas, Greta was transferred to hospital with a degree of urgency following an unannounced visit by the Government Registrations and Inspections Unit.
Her daughter Lynn Mather, of...
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A RESIDENTIAL home has sent out a 'desperate' plea for more than £50,000 of funding to save it from closure. Meadowside Residential Home in Newton Abbot is 'financially struggling' to keep 10 residents with varying degrees of learning and physical difficulties in what has been their home for up to 20 years.
Those who help run the home say they are considering closure as a 'last resort' but are desperate for a...
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Two care home workers accused of wilfully neglecting a resident have been cleared of all charges.
Alan Sayers, 52, who had dementia, died at the Mountleigh care home in Newbridge, Caerphilly county, on 27 September 2004.
The judge ruled that there was no case to answer against Michael Lurvey, 54, and Margaret Lewis, 60.
The trial continues on Monday at Newport Crown Court against two other care workers,...
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The care management recruitment market is looked on as a candidate lead market. But it is still very important that, as a care manager, you impress the care home owner when attending an interview.
At Point Nine Recruitment we understand that going on an interview can be a daunting experience, so we have provided you with some useful advice to help you to prepare.
The more prepared you are the better your...
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The Nursing Home Management recruitment market is looked on as a candidate lead market. But it is still very important that, as a Nursing Home Manager, you impress the care home owner when attending an interview.
At Point Nine Recruitment we understand that going on an interview can be a daunting experience, so we have provided you with some useful advice to help you to prepare.
The more prepared you are...
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There’s no truer word said than the title of this piece.
Katie and Paul Wheeler, co-directors of Point Nine Recruitment Ltd told us that this was a phrase that kept coming up whilst they were recruiting across the board in the healthcare sector. “This was the main reason we decided to specialise only in Care, Nursing home and Crisis Managers,” explained Kate, who has over 10 years experience in the recruitment...
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I am certain that care homes still have a future, there is a great need for good care homes in the UK, but what I do think is vitally important and a huge part of the question offered is that we can not forget how crucial it is to ensure that the home has the right Staff , particularly an experienced and qualified Manager.
Some of our clients have experienced difficulties in...
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