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Millennium Care reveals plans to build a £6m ‘pandemic proof’ care home near Wigan


Millennium Care has revealed plans to build a £6m ‘pandemic proof’ care home in Standish, near Wigan, on the site of its existing Lakeside and Worthington Lake facilities. The care operator said the proposed


Lakeland home takes into consideration lessons learned following the impact that Covid-19 is having on the care sector across the UK. Facilities unveiled in the public consultation


for the scheme include a pavilion to ensure visits can continue now and in the future. The 48-room development also


features resident wellbeing facilities such as indoor botanical and therapeutic gardens, observation decks overlooking woodland and lake, art and music therapy rooms, and physiotherapy and fitness rooms. Millennium Care aims to build on the success of Worthington Lake, opened in 2019, which was designed with household model of dementia care working alongside Stirling University. Lakeland will be organised in six


autonomous clusters of seven and nine-bed


households, all with individual kitchens and leisure facilities to mitigate the impact of resident isolation during current and future epidemics. ACA is providing architecture, interior


design, landscape architecture and CDM principal designer services for the development. The architects said the design of


Lakeland accommodates for progressive


Surrey care provider to pay £83,644 after resident plunges to death


A Surrey care provider has been ordered to pay £83,644 after a 57-year-old man died after falling out of a window while in their care. St John’s Nursing Home Limited in


South Croydon pleaded guilty to failing to provide safe care and treatment, resulting in avoidable harm to Stephen Verrall while resident at the home. The provider was fined £80,000 and


ordered to pay £3,474 prosecution costs, plus a £170 victim surcharge at Croydon Magistrates’ Court on 3 February in a prosecution brought by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). On 17 October 2017, Verrall was found


in the car park outside having had an unwitnessed fall from his bedroom. Verrall was attended to by paramedics,


and taken by ambulance to St. George’s Hospital in Tooting where he later passed away on 19 October 2017. The window from which he fell had been restricted by a single metal chain attached


by screws to an aluminium frame. This safety system had been in place for at least 15 years. A health and safety consultant attended


the home the day after the incident and advised a change to all the window restrictors with chains because they were not strong enough. The windows were later replaced


in February 2018 with built-in window restrictors. “This is a distressing case and our


sympathies are with the family of Mr Verrall and those affected closely by his death,” said CQC head of inspection for adult social care Neil Cox. “Where we find any provider has put people using its services at risk of harm, we take action to hold them to account and protect people,” he added. “We hope this prosecution reminds care


providers that they must always ensure people’s safety and manage risks to their wellbeing.”


dementia care needs based on a “small group household” model of care that enables controlled access and to group residents with Covid together, away from the rest. In addition, ACA proposes to manage


the viral spread through 100 per cent wet room ensuites with addition of separate bathing facilities for each household, a facility for separate staff entrance and staff exits to manage cross infection, together with purpose-built changing rooms. Lakeland will also feature non- institutionalised design that is “homely yet highly sympathetic” to infection prevention controls. ACA said the large, 21 square metre


bedrooms will have “meaningful views” of the surrounding landscape, while the layout plans have been designed over three floors to accommodate for progressive dementia care needs. Lakeland will also have mature landscapes


surrounding the proposed building offering a lake view “to support patients throughout their times at the care home”.


News in brief


n Anwyl Partnerships has handed over the £11.3m Harpers Greene extra care facility in Warrington, which consists of 97 one- and two-bedroom apartments,


to north-west housing group Torus. ................................................................................


n Nuplace, a company set up by Telford & Wrekin Council to manage council housing in the borough, has proposed a 76-bed care home for Donnington Wood on the outskirts of Telford.


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n McCarthy & Stone has filed plans with City of York Council to build a 73-apartment extra care development opposite the former Terry’s chocolate factory site.


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n Exemplar Health Care has filed plans Wirral Council for a 30-bed specialist care home in Wallasey.


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n Montpelier Estates has lodged paperwork with Reading Borough Council to demolish the vacant Dellwood Community Hospital with a 55-bed care home.


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