The Road Ahead
With the roadmap to get us ‘back to normal’ apparently on track, one thing stands…
A Guide to Outstanding Home Care
Following on from the successful launch of their guide to Outstanding home care in 2020, technology experts…
Digital care planning in home care
By Unique IQ Digital technology is starting to transform the home care sector, ensuring better…
Make Surfaces Safer with Parkside’s Antibacterial Tiles
Parkside has launched four new wall and floor tile collections with built-in antibacterial protection. Years…
AI & Care Planning: Can We Predict The Future?
By Tobias Hoher and Morten Mathiesen, Sekoia Co-Founders During this last year we all witnessed…
Keeping information safe: free support for adult social care providers
How the Better Security, Better Care programme is helping to improve data and cyber security…
Light at the end of the tunnel
Vic Rayner, CEO of the National Care Forum – the leading association for not for…
Technology Integration
What do we mean by technology integration? Technology integration is when two or more software…
Why the chips aren’t down after all
Think of a much-loved elderly relative of yours. Let’s call her Joanna. You’ll be pleased…
Whittle Court
Whittle Court is a Stonewater Retirement Living scheme consisting of 40 ground, first and second floor apartments. The communal…
Mulberry Court – Freemantle Trust
Mulberry Court is a 24-bedroom Care home, in the beautiful village of Chalfont St Peter. …
Best Practise for the adoption of electronic care planning software.
Electronic care planning software, sometimes also called digital (social) care records, is increasingly being adopted…
Reframing the reform: Not what I can’t do, but what I can do
By John Kennedy, Independent consultant and commentator in housing and social care A we enter…
Nurse delegated drug rounds allowing carers to safely administer medicine
Cardiff University’s REMEDY research demonstrates that Invatech’s technology (ATLAS EMAR) facilitates the safe delegation of…
Devizes Residents video chat with children from local school
Residents at HC-One’s Market Lavington care home, in Wiltshire, have had the opportunity of building…
Local girl uses tooth-fairy money to donate ‘care bags’ to Stevenage care home residents
Residents at HC-One’s Woodlands View care home in Stevenage were overwhelmed by the kindness of…
Liverpool Resident is fabulous at 107
One Resident at HC-One’s Moss View care home, in Huyton, has just celebrated her 107th birthday.…
Kind donation from local store for Crewe care home
Colleagues and Residents at HC-One’s Primrose House residential memory and nursing memory care home, in Haslington, were…
Vaccine milestone reached at Colchester care home as residents are fully vaccinated
Residents and staff at a care home in Colchester are overjoyed as they have now…
Stevenage care home Colleague celebrates 20 years of service
A very special Colleague at HC-One’s Woodlands View care home in Stevenage has celebrated the…
Hinckley care home Resident revisits the Ghosts of Hinckley’s past
A Resident at HC-One’s Hinckley Park care home in Hinckley, shared his knowledge and love for the…
Hounslow care home enjoys visit from Mayor
Residents and Colleagues at HC-One’s Ashgrove care home in Hounslow had a lovely surprise this…
ARMED prevention technology named ‘Innovation in Health Tech’ winner at prestigious LaingBuisson Awards
A leading health and social care technology company has been announced the winner in the…
Intergeneration project is a huge hit with Liverpool care home residents
All Residents of HC-One’s Ash Court residential care home, in Knotty Ash, were overjoyed by…
Malvern care home’s Queen Jean turns 100
At HC-One’s Court House care home, which offers residential and nursing care, everyone spent the…
Grease is the word for Rochdale care home residents
Residents at HC-One’s Oakland residential and residential memory care home, in Lancashire, had a lovely afternoon…
ADASS Yorkshire and Humber region uses PAMMS to develop one solution rather than 15
ADASSYorkshire and Humber has become the association’s latest region to work with HAS Technology and implement its PAMMS solution across…
Ixworth care home celebrates passing CQC Infection Control Inspection with flying colours
Delight at a Residential care home in Ixworth as they pass their Infection Control Inspection…
NCF response to £341m additional funding for adult social care
The National Care Forum (NCF) – leading association of not for profit social care providers…
TV star Joel Dommett and model Hannah Cooper become Ambassadors for Brain Tumour Support
Brain Tumour Support are thrilled to announce that comedian and TV star Joel Dommett and his wife, model Hannah Cooper, are becoming Ambassadors for…
South-West adult social care provider commits to real Living Wage in a region where 20% of all jobs fail to meet the requirement
25th March 2021: As of this week, AbleCare Homes is now accredited as a Living…
Freemasons rise to Covid-19 challenge with donations totalling £1m and 18 million hours of volunteering
Faced with the greatest global pandemic in living memory, Freemasons came together in 2020 and…
Integration and innovation: the latest NHS reorganisation
The latest policy paper from the Department of Health and Social Care, entitled Integration and…
VinylPlus® Med Accelerates Sustainability in Healthcare
VinylPlus®, the Voluntary Commitment to sustainable development of the European PVC industry, has unveiled a…
THE FUTURE FOR HOME CARE TECHNOLOGY
By David Lynes, Managing Director of Unique IQ It has been well-documented that current events…
E-Rostering – Purchasing Tips for care homes and home care
Much has been made recently of the increase in the use of technology in Social…
The supplements specifically targeted towards your PMS symptoms and suffering
Three out of four women will suffer from some degree of PMS and while its…
Digital inclusion for mental health services in the home environment
By Kathy Roberts, CEO of the Association of Mental Health Providers and the current Chair…
LifeVac – saving lives in seconds across the Adult Care Sector in a choking emergency.
Choking is often referred to as the “silent killer” within the care sector, sadly it…
Supporting good practice for staff movement a Care Provider Alliance (CPA) toolkit
By Kathy Roberts, Chair of the CPA and Ian Turner Executive Chair of the Registered…
Never has cleaning the floor of a care home been more critical.
As nursing homes and care homes prepare to welcome back the relatives and friends of…
Liverpool care home Residents reconnect with their grandchildren
Residents have been reaching out to their grandchildren and great-grandchildren lately as part of National…
Low Level Ozone Now Being Used to Help Protect Care Home Residents and Staff.
Ozone is the most powerful disinfectant known to man and is now being used in…
Direct Care Hub
5 years ago, my fellow co-founder, Tom Jannone and I got to know each other…
Atlas eMAR
The ATLAS eMAR family of products are a comprehensive medicines management system for care homes.…
Morpeth care home Resident’s special birthday message to Granddaughter
One Resident celebrated her Granddaughter’s 40th birthday with a heart-warming video message at HC-One’s Foxton…
Stornoway care home Residents receive 2nd dose vaccinations
On Tuesday 2nd February 2021, Blar Buidhe care home in Stornoway became the first HC-One…
Oxfordshire Resident recalls meeting her husband 70 years ago in the very building where she now lives
Colleagues have uncovered a lovely romantic story about a Resident at HC-One’s Thamesfield care home…
London care Resident is reunited with her siblings after ten years apart
A Resident has enjoyed an incredible family reunion after Colleagues at HC-One’s Bakers Court care…
Tameside Resident makes leaps and bounds in her incredible walking recovery
A Resident at HC-One’s Millbrook care home in Stalybridge is making tremendous steps in her…
Final Mission of Fieldway Resident Army Veteran
On Wednesday 17th February everyone said a sad, fond farewell at a graveside service in…
VinylPlus® Med Accelerates Sustainability in Healthcare
VinylPlus®, the Voluntary Commitment to sustainable development of the European PVC industry, has unveiled a new…
Low Level Ozone Now Being Used to Help Protect Care Home Residents and Staff.
Ozone is the most powerful disinfectant known to man and is now being used in…
Live-In Care Safety
With primary caregivers feeling reluctant to continue caring for their elderly and dementia suffering parents…
Intelligent automation – the key to personalised care in a growing world
Almost every aspect of our lives is streamlined by technology and the pace at which…
The Resident florists of Mornington Hall care home
Stop and smell the roses – an infamous quote everyone has been using a HC-One’s…
Former dog show competitor over the moon with care home pooch
Last week, one of the Residents at Springwater Lodge care home, in Calverton, expressed to…
Wiltshire care home Residents make new overseas pen pals
Residents at HC-One’s Harnham Croft care home, in Salisbury, are building and nurturing new connections…
Visiting booth arrives at Lancashire care home
A new visiting booth has been put in place so that families can visit Residents…
ADASS East Region continues digital transformation to improve quality and market insight
Following a pioneering and ground-breaking approach to digital transformation, ADASS East is now set to…
Friends reunited at a Buxton Nursing Home during Covid-19
Two school friends, who had lost touch for many years, have been reunited at a nursing Home in Buxton,…
Greengables Care Home Recognised as being ‘Good’
HC-One’s Greengables care home in Congleton, Cheshire is celebrating a glowing report from the Care…
Leeds United send special birthday gifts to a huge fan on his 100th birthday
A huge Leeds United fan at HC-One’s The Denby care home in Huddersfield recently celebrated…
Whiteley care homes some of the safest in Surrey
The Whiteley Homes Trust charity released figures today showing Whiteley Village in Walton-on-Thames, a community…
CPA responds to Workforce Capacity Fund
Responding to the new Workforce Capacity Fund, Kathy Roberts, chair of the Care Provider Alliance said:…
Charity creates 160 unique new year jobs
People who pride themselves on being caring and compassionate are being offered the ultimate work…
NCF Press Conference – Thursday 11th February 9am
Please join us for our press conference on Thursday 11th February at 9am for an…
Professor Stephen H Powis, National Medical Director, NHS England and Matthew Gould, CEO, NHSX to Deliver Keynote Addresses at Health Plus Care Online
CloserStill Media Report: Health Plus Care Online, the UK’s leading virtual event for senior care…
Dundee care home Residents make adorable sock snowmen to accompany them in their rooms this Christmas
Festivities are well underway at HC-One’s Balcarres care home in Dundee, as Residents create some…
Durham care home gift Christmas hampers to Veterans in local community
HC-One homes across the north of England have organised a hamper initiative, that saw representatives…
HC-One celebrate the completion of their newest care home in York
The largest care home operator in the UK, HC-One have celebrated the unveiling of their…
Friends reunited at a Buxton Nursing Home during Covid-19
Two school friends, who had lost touch for many years, have been reunited at a nursing Home in Buxton,…
Recare and JCT600 Brooklands – Ferrari delivers life changing F1-inspired powered wheelchair to Darlington’s disabled Robbie
Super Ferrari fan Robbie Bayles, 7 from Darlington, has received the ultimate Christmas gift –…
One Plan Software
If you are looking for a forward thinking, energised and highly engaged company whose people…
Is Big always Best?
Given the current uncertainty of ever getting back to any “normal” within the Health and…
THE IMPACT OF COVID 19 ON THOSE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA.
Just imagine what it is like looking at life through the eyes of someone living…
Willmop, revolutionising floor cleaning
There has never been a more important time to ensure that your floors are kept…
Covid 19 & Accelerating Digital Healthcare
Covid 19 has shone a spotlight on certain failings leaving staff & residents without the…
Care is all about people. That’s why we built a system that puts people first.
CarePlanner gives you the tools to create staff rosters, client schedules, invoices and timesheets with…
Better Pay for Social Care
Kate Allen, Chief Executive of Autism at Kingwood, and Victoria Buyer, External Policy Lead at…
Are digital solutions the new era of care?
By Victoria Buyer, Chair of Age UK Lancashire I believe there are many factors in…
Platinum wedding anniversary for care home couple celebrating 70 years together
Joan Hirst and Edwin Hirst both live together at HC-One’s Larchwood care home, in Braintree,…
Birmingham’s world-renowned dementia specialist shortlisted for Lifetime Achievement award
Professor Graham Stokes, Director of Memory Care Services at care provider HC-One, has been shortlisted…
HC-One care home in Crieff celebrates being rated as the best in Scotland
HC-One’s The Birches care home, located on Comrie Road in Crieff, has been ranked as…
Business as usual at Maidenhead service as familiar support provider comes on board
A Maidenhead sheltered care service has assured residents that it will be business as usual…
Partnership between The Care Workers’ Charity and Care Worker Tax Rebate: to benefit Domiciliary Care Workers
The Care Workers’ Charity is pleased to announce our partnership with Care Worker Tax Rebate…
HC-One’s Leigh care home shortlisted as finalists in the Great British Care Awards 2020
Richmond House, a HC-One care home in Leigh, Greater Manchester, has been shortlisted as a…
Care home Resident’s touching speech for Remembrance Day
This year one of the Residents at HC-One’s Brindley Court care home, in Longport, Stoke…
Frome Care Home Enjoys Success in CQC Report
HC-One’s Catherine House Care Home in Frome, Somerset, is celebrating having received a glowing report…
Saniflo official spare parts website now live
Following consumer demand for an online source of spare parts the team at Saniflo has…
Theraposture supports hard-hitting ‘Time for Can’ campaign from Parkinson’s UK
Theraposture, the exclusive adjustable bed and chair partner of Parkinson’s UK, will be supporting its…
Helping the community at Coventry care home
Residents and Colleagues at HC One’s Brandon House care home have been getting involved with…
Netherton care home Resident celebrates centenary birthday with 100 yellow roses
Family and Colleagues at HC-One’s Ashgrove care home in the West Midlands, planned the whole…
Abacus Academy opens to deliver latest CPD bathing education for Occupational Therapists
The new online Abacus Academy, from Abacus Specialist Bathroom Solutions, is now live at: https://www.abacushealthcare.co.uk/abacus-academy/…
Southwark care home celebrate Grandparents Day
HC-One colleagues served tea and refreshments to residents at Tower Bridge care home in Southwark,…
THE CARE WORKERS’ CHARITY: RESPONSE TO ‘CARE QUALITY COMMISION: STATE OF CARE’ REPORT
The Care Workers’ Charity welcomes the considerations and suggestions of the Care Quality Commission’s ‘State…
Salford care home Residents enjoy company of some new pets
Residents at HC One’s Pendleton Court have had some new company in the form of…
Green fingered Nottingham Resident enters garden competition
Micheal Measham, a Resident at HC One’s Willow Brook care home, has entered the annual…
Durham care home Residents salute NHS Spitfire as it flies over North East
Residents at HC-One’s Melbury Court care home in Durham made a short trip to the…
How Infection control measures are in Teal Living’s DNA.
Teal has turned its experience in equipping NHS Nightingale Hospitals during the height of the…