NEWS HR
September 26, 2016
Kingdom Housing Association has announced the appointment of Matthew Busher as its new Head of Housing.
September 26, 2016
A Harrogate charity has appointed an expert in health and social care integration as its new Chair. Neil Revely takes over the key role at Disability Action Yorkshire, following the retirement of Martyn Weller, who had held the position for a decade.
September 20, 2016
A group supporting carers in Dorchester has been forced to close after its founder was injured in a road accident. The Carers Moving Forward (CMF) group has shut down after founder Enid Evans was involved in a collision with a car as a pedestrian in Bournemouth and received “significant injuries” that mean she is no longer able to keep it running. The group offered support to people whose loved ones had to go into residential care as well as those who had been recently bereaved. It met on a monthly basis at Age UK in Dorchester.
September 20, 2016
HIMSS UK has appointed NHS England’s former Head of Health and Care Innovation, Jane Dwelly, as Director of Strategy.
September 20, 2016
A new manager has been appointed at Lincolnshire’s Retirement Villages. Sue Scarlett has taken up the position at Park Place.
September 12, 2016
Weston College wants to appoint a Subject Area Manager to its Health and Social Care division
September 12, 2016
A suspended nurse walked into her old ward and sold private care services to an elderly patient, a hearing was told. Nicola Koller was being investigated for “lack of competence” when she entered the Edinburgh hospital and told colleagues she was just visiting a friend. But Ms Koller, according to witnesses, gave a widowed patient a leaflet and business card offering services as a private registered nurse. And once the patient had been discharged from ward 72 at the Western General, Ms Koller charged him around £170-a-night as a registered nurse, despite her suspension. The nurse appeared in front of a disciplinary panel of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) in Edinburgh this week. She is accused of selling services as a private nurse in April 2015 following suspension two months earlier. Ms Koller, who is believed to be 63 and live in Edinburgh, denies the charges and claims that she was misunderstood and that the leaflet was in circulation before she was suspended.
September 12, 2016
The former manager of a Broadstone care home will appear before a disciplinary panel this month accused of placing staffing needs above patient safety. Janice Jenkins, who managed Delph House Care Home, has been charged by the Nursing and Midwifery Council. The hearing will take place in Montfichet Road, east London, next week. Ms Jenkins is accused of 15 failings which would impair her fitness to practise nursing by reason of misconduct.
