Planning details for a state-of-the art Barrow care home have been revealed. Cumbria County Council has applied for planning permission for a new £6.5m home which will be built on the site of the former George Basterfield House.

Care home staff looking after some of the most vulnerable members of society feel they are being “hunted” by clamping firms.

Creative workshops in London are improving the cognition and confidence of people with early dementia. Wendy Jones explains

TWO mental health trust staff have scooped an award for supporting patients in North Staffordshire nursing homes.

Elderly people in rural areas are at risk because the care system to look after them in their own homes is “at breaking point”.

The debate led by Warrington Borough Council, will look for residents views on how social care needs to change to help more people live independent lives in their own homes.

Services to protect and care for children in Reading are only reaching minimum standards, according to Government inspectors.

Elderly residents at Littleport Grange nursing and residential home, in Littleport, are to be moved out after the home failed to improve after receiving a formal warning from health and social care watchdog the Care Quality Commission.

Virgin care has signed a £500 million contract with NHS Surrey to deliver community health services in south west and north west Surrey, which includes Walton and Weybridge, from 2012 to 2017.

Work on a new centre for terminally-ill people has begun at a hospital which serves Norfolk and north Suffolk.