A West Yorkshire care provider has been fined £190,000 following the death of a disabled resident who broke his neck at a nursing home. The Care Quality Commission prosecuted Leeds-based
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The Care Inspectorate has launched a new good practice resource full of information on how best to prevent and manage falls. It will be distributed to every care home in
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A manager at a care home in Newport, South Wales, has won praise for delivering a ground-breaking training programme that has just been shortlisted for an NHS Wales Award. Edgar
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A new report by the Social Care Institute for Excellence, published today, evaluates care home provider HC-One’s Care Assistant Development Programme (CADP). The programme, which has received RCN Accreditation, consists
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Five care homes in the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board area have completed an NHS training programme – and have now been shortlisted for the NHS Awards, along with the Health
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Families of victims of the Winterbourne View scandal have written to the Prime Minister demanding he shuts outdated care home institutions. In an open letter they express “anger” at the
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A care worker who used eye drops and a bleach-based cleaning fluid to poison colleagues at a residential home has been given a life sentence. Former special constable Melissa Swift
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Vaughan Gething has paid tribute to nursing and midwifery staff in Wales, calling for further improvement to the quality and experience of care for all who use the NHS. Speaking
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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has said public reviews of care services will form part of future care inspections as it set out its strategy for 2016 to 2021. Launched
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Care home residents are enjoying a touch of glamour thanks to a professional nail bar at the Pen-y-Bryn care home in Bagillt, Flintshire – part of an innovative approach to
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