This years’ Scottish Care conference will focus on care home provision and the challenges the sector faces in the years to come. The ‘National Care Home Conference, Exhibition & Care
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Cardiff University are looking at new ideas for research to improve life and healthcare for those living in care homes. However, they need the input of people who have direct experience of
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A police investigation has been launched after a 98-year-old woman was seriously injured at a Edinburgh care home. The woman, who is a resident at Strachan House in the Blackhall
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A care centre for elderly people in Glasgow has been criticised in it’s first inspection by Scotland’s care watchdog. Hogganfield Care Centre has been ordered to make improvements after the
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Two care home owners and an employee have received jail sentences for ill-treating a 99-year-old dementia sufferer who was immersed in a scalding hot bath. Indrannee Pumbien, 59, her husband
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My Home Life Cymru is inviting social care managers to share good practice and learn more about the work of My Home Life Cymru at a series of free events around
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People need to “wake up” to the future care needs of their parents and discuss the issue now, the head of a charity has said. Gail Scott-Spicer, chief executive of
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Fiona McQueen, Chief Nursing Officer, Scottish Government and Karen Reid, Chief Executive, Care Inspectorate have written to all service providers to raise awareness of the forthcoming changes to the re-registration
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Families are paying too much for social care “all too often” because they are not getting the correct information, according to a report. The Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) says many
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Dementia care specialist Kingsley Healthcare has announced plans for a £6m development that will create up to 100 jobs in Greater Manchester. Building work on the 62-bedroom purpose-built dementia care home
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