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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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A nursing home owner has been jailed for 12 weeks for assaulting an elderly resident in his care.
Daniel Purgaus was convicted of attacking 80-year-old Ronald Thomas at the Overnhill House residential home in Downend, Bristol in January 2008.
On Monday magistrates in the city heard 59-year-old Purgaus grabbed Mr Thomas and dragged him across a floor after he complained he was feeling cold.
Purgaus, an experienced carer, had denied attacking...
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Pressure on district nurses is increasing because fewer people are being looked after in care homes, according to a leading care homes expert. A report by the NHS Information Centre, Community Care Statistics 2008, showed the number of people living in residential or nursing care homes dropped by 4% to 239,100 between 2007 and 2008.Frank Ursell, Registered Nursing Home Association chief executive, said government drives to reduce local authority funded placements...
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Older people and the vulnerable are being promised better social care and shorter waiting times following a raft of changes which will overhaul the way assessments are carried out and save £1.2m.
Norfolk County Council's ruling cabinet will today discuss the plans for more integration with the NHS and ways to speed up how basic assessments are carried out.
A report will suggest that a new system should make use of the council's...
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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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"Carer of the Month" January award from Guide 2 Care, presented to Janice at Girvan Care, Bexhill on Sea by Kate Wheeler of Point Nine Recruitment....
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If you register with us and introduce a friend who we register and place with a client we will pay you £100 just like our candidate Wendy Brown from Birmingham who introduced her friend Christine to us. We then registered and placed her in a new position earning Wendy £100. ...
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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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