NEWS HR

Healthcare intelligence provider Wilmington Healthcare, which incorporates HSJ, Binley’s, OnMedica and Wellards, has appointed Sue Plant as Commercial Director for MedTech.

Hardies Property & Construction Consultants has appointed its first head of service in its 105 year history with the appointment of Michael Creech as head of housing.

The sales team at a Cotswolds firm is growing with the appointment of two new faces. Stow Brio Retirement Living has appointed Forrest Robertson, 72, a former architect with 40 years’ experience and Sue Reeves, 62, an experienced sales executive, who has worked in property in Hampshire and Dorset before relocating to Gloucestershire

A nurse manager at a Leslie care home had to be taken to casualty after tripping on a pothole and fracturing a bone next to her elbow. Marilyn McDiarmid suffered a fracture to the radial head in her right arm while walking to West Park Care Home, where she works, at the end of Walkerton Drive. Last week, the owner of the care home, Irene Bright, had urged Fife Council to fix the road, which is ridden with potholes.

Alan Townshend will this year become chief executive of Southern Housing Group.

Larchfield House nursing home in Maidenhead has appointed a new general manager. Ex-soldier and paramedic Cliff Grand-Scrutton has taken over the running of the facility which specialises in dementia care for the elderly.

Kate Henderson is confirmed as the new chief executive of the National Housing Federation (NHF), succeeding David Orr.

Bilney Hall residential care home in East Bilney, between Dereham and Fakenham, has appointed qualified nurse Nikki Shaw as its new home manager.