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Hallmark promotes Aneurin Brown to chief operating officer


Hallmark Care Homes has promoted Aneurin Brown to chief operating officer (COO) from group operations director. Brown (pictured)


will oversee the WCS Care eyes acoustic monitoring


retrofits with wireless trial provider stated in its annual accounts. WCS Care is the first care home provider in


WCS Care is trialling a wireless version of CLB’s acoustic night-time monitoring system with a view to retrofitting it in the Warwickshire provider’s older care homes. Having installed acoustic monitoring in


its three newbuild care homes, residents at The Limes in Stratford-Upon-Avon are the first in the world to benefit from CLB’s wireless system. The systems installed in WCS Care’s newbuild homes, which reduced night-time falls by 34 per cent in the first year of use, are hard-wired; something which limits its rollout in its older homes. Another first is the implementation of


multi-site monitoring with The Limes being remotely monitored from another WCS Care home. “This strategy has provided oversight


and staff support for the night carers at The Limes, enhanced care quality and reduced night staff costs by 17 per cent,” the care


England to install CLB’s acoustic monitoring system. Using discrete monitoring, the system


detects sounds in residents’ rooms and sends an alert when the sound level in a room exceeds individually set thresholds. The alerts are constantly monitored and, if


there is no sound from a resident’s room, they are left to sleep rather than being disturbed by hourly door checks through the night. The WCS Care accounts meanwhile


showed the charity generated a surplus of £1.984m in the year ending 31 March 2021, up from £412,000 a year earlier. The provider, which operates 13 care


homes across Warwickshire, saw income from sales increase by 10.6 per cent, mainly as a result of new sales at Woodside Care Village in Warwick, which opened in November 2019.


Care UK appoints Friend to newly created


chief operating officer position Leading provider Care UK has appointed senior Nuffield Health executive Martin Friend to its newly created role of chief operating officer (COO). Friend (pictured) will join Care


UK in January and take on overall accountability for operations across the business, reporting directly to chief executive Andrew Knight. He will join from Nuffield Health, where he represented operations on the executive board as COO, a post he held since 2017. In this role, Martin integrated a number


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of acquisitions, including Virgin Active and, more recently, Aspen Healthcare and led the delivery and growth of Nuffield Health’s connected health model to 1.5m customers a year. At Care UK, Friend will be


charged with transitioning the 26 Sunrise and Gracewell homes


that come under Care UK’s management this month. Care UK has opened 58 new care homes


in the past decade and employs more than 10,000 people.


operational direction of the group’s entire portfolio and provide leadership and strategic vision, reporting directly to Hallmark founder and chair Avnish Goyal. Brown will also take a leading role in


leading on Hallmark’s commissioning and new build programme. The new COO started his career at


Hallmark in 2014 as a hospitality services manager and steadily progressed throughout the group before becoming a regional manager in 2019. He was promoted again in October


that same year, becoming a regional director before being appointed as group operations director in May 2021.


Legrand launches consolidated


global brand Electrical and digital infrastructure specialist Legrand has launched Legrand Care, a consolidated brand for the assisted living and healthcare market. Legrand Care is born from the integration


of the brands that make up the Assisted Living and Healthcare (AL&HC) business unit of Legrand: Intervox, Tynetec, Aid Call, Jontek and Neat. “Under a common strategic vision, with a


coherent image in the market, the five brands will cease to operate as segmented entities and will concentrate their strengths to position Legrand as the leader in connected care worldwide,” said Legrand Care director of product and marketing Íñigo Ruiz Cossío. Legrand Care chief executive Chris


Dodd added: “The coming together of five highly-regarded, customer-centric, long- established assisted living and healthcare brands into Legrand Care is a significant milestone in our journey.”


www.thecarehomeenvironment.com • December 2021


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