Music and dementia charity, Playlist for Life, has been awarded £1.6 million in National Lottery funding.
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Leading UK residential care and nursing home operator, Runwood Homes, has partnered with non-invasive airway clearance device provider, LifeVac Europe.
Dame Moira Gibb, chair of the Skills for Care Board, is to chair the Digital Care Conference at the Millennium Point in Birmingham.
The developer of the UK’s most widely used electronic care planning system, Person Centred Software, is aiming to drive a technological revolution in pain relief for care home residents.
A weekend hackathon has been held by the Care Innovation Hub as part of a bid to introduce new ideas and innovation into the social care sector.
Co-founder and director, Jonathan Papworth, explains how Person Centred Software is helping enhance resident safety through the integration of new food safety standards
Adult social care inspectors, including those employed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), have been accused of creating a barrier to innovation and preventing the shift to digital.
Recruitment platform novacare is to engage with industry leaders so that it can serve the latest industry trends and demand.
Barclays, apetito, Quality Compliance Systems (QCS) and Royds Withy King are the latest founder partners of the Care Innovation Hub (CIH).
Recruitment marketplace Florence has raised £5m in funding to widen its nurse and carer user base.
