Page joins Danshell board

Steve Page is to join the board of specialist care provider Danshell as a strategic advisor. As well as being the founding chief executive...

Retirement Villages brings in Barr

Surrey-based Retirement Villages group has appointed Rob Barr as human resources manager. Mr Barr was previously at Partnerships in Care and Crawley-based Bard Medical.

Fellowship for dementia professor

The University professor, Roger Watson, who developed the Edinburgh Feeding Evaluation in Dementia (EdFED) - the only validated instrument for measuring feeding difficulty in...

Board appointments at Your Care Rating

Your Care Rating has appointed Professor Julienne Meyer from City University and Sylvie Silver from the National Activity Providers Association (NAPA) to its board....

Strong leadership at Bethpage

Andrew Strong will take over as chief executive officer of specialist care provider Bethphage in November. He replaces Rob Tovey, who has headed up...

New developments

Craegmoor is investing more than £100,000 in a new residential service in Sheffield for individuals with mental health issues, including personality disorder. Bowden House, which...

The rising cost of a quiet ‘sleep in’: Pinsent Mason’s Joanna Ellis looks at...

Employers running care homes may be forced to increase their wage bills for 'sleep-in' workers in line with National Minimum Wage Regulations (NMW) following...

A new start – CCMn meets Danshell’s director of nursing and patients’ safety Debra...

One year on from Danshell’s acquisition of the majority of Castlebeck’s estate, CCMn meets Debra Moore, who discusses how it has turned the homes...

North Yorkshire’s extra care strategy

North Yorkshire county council is consulting on a new care strategy that could lead to extra care housing in each of the area’s major...

Spanish buy boosts Tunstall’s turnover

Telehealth and telecare provider Tunstall reported revenues of £221m for the year ended 30 September 2013, an increase of 21.2% on the previous year’s £182.1m. However, £20.2m of turnover came from the acquisition of Spanish operator Televida in January 2013.