Article: Specialist nurses call for care homes.

Article: Staffing crisis for OAP care homes.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  September 15, 2004 ;     526 words ... ... nurses has warned that care homes are facing a staffing ... chairwoman of the Royal College Of Nursing in Edinburgh ... still needed in our care homes. 'For too long we ... reasons why a number of care homes have recently closed ...

Article: Letter: Government must heed call to support our care ...
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  June 7, 2003 ;     465 words ... ... away. It just gets worse for more elderly and vulnerable people. The Royal College of Nurses conference recognised the government must increase the fees paid to care homes to avoid further turmoil in the industry. The likes of Help the Aged ...

Article: Care homes 'slip hundreds of old people drugs ...
The Scotsman;  May 2, 2006 ;     700+ words ...ONE in seven Scottish care homes secretly administers drugs ... according to figures from the care homes watchdog. Campaigners said ... Mairi Scott, who chairs the Royal College of GPs in Scotland, said ... decision. "My experience of care homes is that people who work in ...

Article: Responding to the needs of older people resident in care ...
Clinical Medicine;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... residents of 751 UK care homes was undertaken ... presented to the Royal College of Physicians ... that is given in care homes is much more than ... 2000 the RCP, Royal College of Nursing and ... Evercare are based in care homes, and there is ...

Article: Hospitals, Care Homes And Mental Health Units ...
M2 Presswire;  May 11, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... 2009-BAPEN: Hospitals, Care Homes And Mental Health Units Failing ... was more likely to occur in care homes (84%) than in hospitals ... Participating hospitals, care homes and mental health units have ... Dietetic Association (BDA) and Royal College of Nursing (RCN) were ...

Article: Focus: Care homes lose battle to survive in funding ...
The Independent - London;  April 21, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... Buisson, describes as the annus horribilis of the care homes sector. In theory, care homes should be a growth, even boom, industry ... month. Barry Hartley, chairman of the National Care Homes Association, says that in one West Yorkshire ...

Article: Scandal of the elderly residents 'drugged' by their care ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  May 3, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... figures released by the care homes watchdog reveal that ... Scotland's 1,500 care homes, it could mean staff ... Scott, chairman of the Royal College of GPs in Scotland ... My experience of care homes is that people who work ...