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Permission granted for Herne Bay care facility


LNT Care Developments has received planning permission to build a 66 bed care home on the site of the former Herne Bay Golf Club. The facility will provide residential and dementia care for those aged over 65 years.


Construction is due to start in June 2017


with a predicted completion date of May 2018. Once complete, the home will be a strong community facility, integrating with the nearby local facilities including shops, churches and schools. It will provide en-suite bedrooms, spacious communal areas and state-of-the- art amenities including a cinema, library, garden room and tea shop, all surrounded by beautifully landscaped gardens. The home is designed to best enable the


delivery of quality care and provide a positive lifestyle choice for local people who may be frail, elderly or living with dementia. Christine Cooper, project director at LNT


Care Developments, says: “We are delighted to be building such a fantastic care home for Barchester Healthcare. It is also great news for


Report examines care services for


LGBT community Anyone can develop dementia, but for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people the experience of dementia support contrasts with that of their non-LGBT peers. A strategic partnership of voluntary


Herne Bay, creating 50 jobs in the local area and providing a high quality resource for elderly people in the local community. “The facility will incorporate intelligent


dementia design and be eco-friendly by benefitting from ground source heat pumps, solar thermal panels and LED lighting, keeping utility costs low.” Mark Bennett, Barchester’s director of


property services, says: “This site is a beautiful setting for a new Barchester care home and we are very excited about the construction work starting in June.”


Literature lover celebrates 100th birthday Launching the report on behalf of the


A World War II nurse with a passion for poetry has celebrated turning 100 at a Dunfermline retirement housing development. Mary Wright McKean, now a tenant at Bield’s Gillie Court, was born in Edinburgh where she worked as a librarian, civil servant and as a nurse during the war. Working at Bangour Hospital in


West Lothian, Mary helped in the innovative early work of reconstructive plastic surgery. Each night she would travel back to her home in Slateford, and one evening during the Blackout grabbed


a memorable lift back into Edinburgh with General Charles de Gaulle. Mary has always enjoyed poetry and


literature and during her 50s joined the Open University and achieved an honours degree in classics. Mary celebrated her action-


packed life so far with two parties at Gillie Court, with friends, family and fellow tenants in attendance. Brenda Robertson, manager at


Gillie Court, says: “Everyone at the development loves Mary and we’d like to say a big congratulations!”


National Care Forum and Voluntary Organisations Disability Group, SPP manager Gill Boston says: “The best social care takes people’s needs and meets these holistically. This must include a recognition of people’s sexuality or gender where it is appropriate to do so. “With rising demand for dementia care,


this report provides a call to action for all services to ensure that people are able to access the right person-centred support. Alongside this we need the workforce to be trained and developed by people from LGBT communities themselves.”


Nurse Plus team members complete Skills for Care programme


Two Nurse Plus team members have successfully completed the Well-Led programme from Skills for Care. Nurse Plus branch managers Kieron Bobby


from Maidstone and Erica Quinell from Folkestone were among the first to complete the course and had the opportunity to learn ways to improve their leadership skills, share good practice and identify new ways to enhance and lead their teams. The course focuses on expanding the skills of managers of adult social care services


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working in the private, public or third sectors and is made up of a series of practical workshops designed to teach participants how to deliver high quality, person centred care. Bobby comments: “The Well-Led


programme has significantly extended my ability to put trust into my team and improve their commitment to the job. “I learned that as a manager, the difficult


conversations that I have so often wanted to avoid can actually turn into a leadership opportunity for myself and my colleagues.”


organisations has launched ‘Foundations for the Future: Dementia care for LGBT communities’, the third report in a series exploring how care professionals can provide the most appropriate support. The report describes the growing need


for appropriate care for LGBT people with dementia. Along with the learning that can be applied from existing high-quality dementia care for LGBT, it also promotes the next steps towards creating stronger dementia care strategies.


From left: Pamela Bruce, managing director, Nurse Plus; Stacey Lopez; Denise Coates; Mark Gidalla, operations director, Nurse Plus


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