This week I returned to my voluntary nursing role in a busy Nursing and Residential home that is local to where I live. I have not been able to go much during the pandemic, so it was lovely to be back. Life is still not back to normal for our care home residents, but...
Now a PRSB Partner! AutumnCare is now a member of the PRSB Standards Partnership Scheme. We have aligned ourselves with the PRSB as part of our ongoing commitment to best practice in sharing standardised information and the principles of user led care. The...
Should COVID-19 vaccines be mandatory for care home staff? Yesterday, a senior minister urged that all care home staff in England should be vaccinated against COVID-19, and that this should be mandatory. This is currently being debated. It is expected that care staff...
The Queen’s Speech Last month saw an interesting divergence of Australia and the United Kingdom (the countries in which AutumnCare operates) to the societal-level approach to caring for our elders. Nearly two years after Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s “pledge to fix...
AutumnCare is now Cyber Essentials Certified. The Cyber Essentials certification scheme is run by the National Cyber Security Centre based in the UK. This certification demonstrate that AutumnCare is compliant with standard safety and security that protect the...
CYBERUK 2021 Today, for the very first time, I am attending a conference from the comfort of home. CYBERUK, the flagship UK government cybersecurity event, is taking place online this year due to the ongoing restrictions imposed by the global public health response....
Stuart Hope founded AutumnCare in 2000, and since then a lot has changed. We’ve seen the developed economies struggle to balance the books in the face of rapidly ageing populations and existential emergencies like the global financial crisis of 2008. Technology...
A roadmap out of lockdown was announced this week. Restrictions across the UK will be eased in four stages, with each stage to be a minimum of five weeks apart. The following conditions must be met in order to progress to the next stage: The COVID vaccine continues...
In December we were able to partake in a brilliant initiative to combat social isolation and lack of engagement opportunities for residents in lockdown. Mystery Bird was born in the wake of strict social distancing measures and the cancellation of our beloved live...
Since the end of March 2020, and the first national lockdown due to COVID-19, the mental and physical health of many of the 411,000 care homes residents has deteriorated. Many people living in care still have not been able to see their loved ones at all since then. ...
