O&H Vehicle Conversions Provide Wheelchair Accessible Vehicles (WAVs) to Care Homes…
O&H Vehicle Conversions provide specially adapted WAVs and minibuses to meet your specific requirements. Designed and built at our purpose-built 6 acre facility in Goole, we can offer personalised features with extensive design options to choose from. Layout options are discussed with the customer at the point of specification to confirm legal compliance. We already […]
Sky TV and WiFi for your care settings…
Bring your residents together in your lounge and give that home-from–home experience in your residents’ rooms with TV and WiFi packages for care settings Sky In-Lounge & Sky In-Room packages include an unrivalled number of entertainment channels including Gold and Alibi as well as dedicated movie and sports channels. The Cloud WiFi, from Sky is […]
Challenging times in the UK’s care homes
Operating a care home in the current climate has probably never been tougher. New legislation, tougher inspection regimes and the detrimental effects of bad media coverage of the ‘bad apples’ have taken their toll. Margins have been greatly squeezed as local authority spending on care for the elderly has come under enormous pressure. There are […]
Care Forum coming this June!
Celebrating 15 successful years, the Care Forum is set to return bigger and better than ever on 6th & 7th June 2016 with an array of new delegates, increasingly innovative products and service providers and even more seminars packed into the two-day event. Purposely smaller than other events in the industry; the Care Forum has […]
Christopher Eccleston, Aardman release dementia awareness video…
The creators of Wallace and Gromit — Aardman Animation — have created a video for Alzheimer’s Research UK, which stars award-winning actor Christopher Eccleston and hopes to raise awareness for its #sharetheorange campaign. Bristol-based Aardman Animation’s online film uses an orange to show how dementia physically attacks the brain. The brain of an Alzheimer’s sufferer […]
Another step forward for the right for Palliative Care…
The right to Palliative Care has been raised again at the House of Lords as the Palliative Care Bill makes its second reading. Introduced by Baroness Ilora Finlay, the bill entitles everyone to high quality care at the end of their life, regardless of geographical location. The bill will also include a duty placed on […]
Care Watchdog finds four in ten fall below standards…
This week the health regulator has issued a stark warning to the care industry, by releasing figures which suggest 40 per cent of care homes for the elderly are failing to meet required standards. Andrea Sutcliffe, the Care Quality Commission’s chief inspector for adult social care, said that a third of social care facilities require […]
Autumn Statement announces revenue plans to save care home crisis…
Local authorities now have the opportunity to increase council tax bills by two per cent a year to make up for shortfall in social care costs, following the announcement in the recent Spending Review by Chancellor George Osborne. A recent article in The Telegraph reported that it remains at the discretion of each local authority […]
Recruiting overseas nurses may ‘negatively impact quality of care’…
Patients treated by nurses educated abroad are less likely to feel confident in the care they receive and report less satisfaction, according to a new study. Experts behind the research – the first evidence of its kind – said recruiting more nurses from overseas instead of from the UK may “negatively impact quality of care”. […]