People often ask, ‘what’s a typical day in the life of a carer?’ To be honest there is no such thing, and that is why the job role is so exciting, so varied and so interesting. There is a huge opportunity to positively impact the lives of the people that we’re caring for. At [...]
At Prestige we understand families effected by young onset dementia or a rare type of dementia may face specific challenges. Our Admiral Nurse is available to offer advice and information to people living with dementia, their carers, families and friends. We are affiliated to the Rare Dementia Support UK (RDS) www.raredementiasupport.org RDS is a UK based [...]
Prestige Nursing + Care, one of the UK’s most established private nursing care and support care agencies, is to host two sessions at the upcoming Residential and Home Care Show. Jonathan Bruce, Managing Director at Prestige Nursing + Care, will discuss domiciliary care and the future of the market. Additionally, Sue Jones, Admiral Nurse [...]
Prestige Nursing + Care, one of the UK’s most established private nursing care and support care agencies, has received an overall ‘Outstanding’ Care Quality Commission (CQC) rating for its Plymouth branch. The Prestige Nursing + Care branch in Crownhill, Plymouth was rated as outstanding for the way the service is led, and for the level [...]
Years of inadequate funding for social care were inevitably going to have consequences. A combination of reduced funding and higher staff costs, following the ‘living wage’ increase have put profitability under severe strain across the care sector. As a result, care providers are beginning to hand back contracts, with 57% of local authorities experiencing this within the [...]
Over the past few months, we have seen MPs, medical professionals, council leaders and care leaders united in their belief that urgent action is needed to close the social care-funding gap. Without this, they said, the results could be catastrophic. On Wednesday, the social care sector eagerly awaited the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement. Given the strength [...]
Warnings of a crisis in social care have become more frequent and more urgent in recent months. As we head towards winter, medical professionals, care workers, MPs, council leaders and charities alike have been telling us that we are on course for a disaster of untold proportions. The government recently promised an additional £3.5 billion to add to [...]
A report from UK Homecare Association (UKHCA) published today raises the issue of local councils paying homecare providers less and less, putting the whole sector under enormous financial strain and limiting its ability to deliver high quality care to vulnerable adults. The report finds that publicly-funded older people’s homecare is under threat of a £513 million [...]
Every year Prestige Nursing + Care undertakes a study into the cost of a care room in a care home – and each year’s results are more alarming than the last. This year’s study found that an average room in a home increased a massive ten times as fast as pensioners’ incomes did – which [...]
Headlines were made last week by calls from Dr Dan Poulter – a former health minister – for an additional tax to fund health and social care in order to save it from collapse. Poulter’s experiences make him an astute judge of the sector’s performance. As well as serving as a minister in the Department of Health, [...]
