Care Products & Services Press Releases

Sacha brings tears to their eyes

16-May-12

A nine-year-old schoolgirl brought tears to the eyes of Sanctuary Care home residents when she read them a poem penned in memory of her late grandmother. Hatfield read full article

New Continuity of Care Product Overview

14-May-12

This clear chart summarises the products available from Sumed for pressure ulcer prevention. In many cases, care that is taken whilst a patient is sitting in a wheelchair read full article

The 2012 Pinders Healthcare Design Awards

10-May-12

This year's Pinders Healthcare Design Awards luncheon was held at Lord's Cricket Ground on Thursday 22nd March. Since 1999 the prestigious Healthcare Design Awards has been read full article

Haigh increase standard warranty on SOLO to 2 years

10-May-12

Haigh have recently announced a new 2 year warranty for the SOLO® single bedpan macerator. Previously supplied with a standard 12 month warranty, this extension is testament read full article

DC Care celebrates 10 year anniversary

09-May-12

DC Care is proud to announce that this is their 10th anniversary year. Established in 2002 the privately owned specialist care home agency has gained an excellent reputation read full article

Viscotech Community Mattresses now with High Risk Versions

09-May-12

Viscotech® Community Mattress range is now available in two variants providing exceptional pressure relief at a very competitive price. An XSensor® Pressure Mapping picture read full article

Integrity Dynamic Mattress Replacement System Website Section

08-May-12

Suitable for the prevention and management of all grades of pressure damage for clients up to 28 Stones (178kg). Integrity® has been specifically designed to offer exceptional read full article

Cilguard Overlap - Great for awkward areas

08-May-12

Don’t take our word for it! Cilguard® Overlap is becoming increasingly popular with excellent feedback on this unique wound dressing variant which extends 2cm outside read full article

Free day out for wheelchair users and their carers at RHS Garden Wisley

03-May-12

Mobility event returns to RHS Garden Wisley Following a successful debut in 2011 a popular mobility event is set to return to RHS Garden Wisley in Woking. Wheelchair users read full article

NHSScotland consortium goes live with Advanced Health and Care's Adastra patient management system

02-May-12

Adastra out-of-hours patient management system is now used across the whole of Scotland Tayside, Forth Valley and Borders NHS Boards have recently gone live with Adastra read full article

The renewable heat incentive

02-May-12

The world’s first Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme has been open to applicants since 28th November 2011, providing payments for heat generated from renewable technologies read full article

Mobility event returns to RHS Garden Wisley

02-May-12

Following a successful debut in 2011 a popular mobility event is set to return to RHS Garden Wisley in Woking. Wheelchair users and their carers will be entitled to complimentary read full article

CQC Advice and Dementia Training at Care Roadshow Gateshead

02-May-12

There’s just three weeks to go until Care Roadshow comes to The Lancastrian Suite, Gateshead. The event is free to attend and is packed full of inspiration, industry updates read full article

Integration is the name of the game for care home technology

30-Apr-12

Nurse call systems have come a long way from the lamp based hard wired wall boards to the Courtney-Thorne CT-TOUCH wireless touch screens now popular with the majority of read full article

Year End Deadlines and New Legislation

26-Apr-12

With the change of tax year comes a wealth of changes to legislation. Please see below for some helpful facts and quick pointers to ensure your year end runs smoothly. The read full article

Castleoak develops UK's first BREEAM Excellent care home for Barchester Healthcare

26-Apr-12

Castleoak, the specialist care development, design and build group, has achieved a BREEAM Excellent rating for Barchester Healthcare’s Wadhurst Manor in East Sussex, making read full article

Courtney-Thorne launch entry model for budget savvy homes

26-Apr-12

A ‘budget friendly’ nurse call system has been developed and launched by Courtney-Thorne. The Economy+ wireless nurse system is ideally suited to the smaller care home or read full article

Real Time Information - Could this be your last Payroll Year End?

25-Apr-12

Could this be your last ever payroll year end? April 5th 2012 marks the end of another payroll tax year but did you know it could be your last ever! ? With Real Time read full article

training2care comment on BBC Panorama

24-Apr-12

Once again last night the Care Industry has been highlighted by BBC Panorama for abuse and poor practice. The problem with programmes like this is that it focuses on individual read full article

Barchester Healthcare pleased to continue working with EnSo Servicing

24-Apr-12

EnSo are pleased to confirm their re-appointment as nominated service provider to Barchester Healthcare, providing the servicing and maintenance at their off-mains care homes. EnSo read full article