Newton House Care Home - The Best Possible Care
Barchester News
Overseas nurses qualify and flower power reigns at Newton House
25/09/2007
Four familiar faces at Newton House and Hilton Park are celebrating the completion of their overseas nurses programme.
Cristina Monville, Maria Agular, Karmela Aquno and Estella Ladrido completed the programme through Northampton University. They now have the approval of the Nursing and Midwifery Council to work as registered nurses in the UK.
In other blooming marvellous Newton House news, four members of staff have taken part in a sunflower-growing competition.
General manager Lesley Hart shunned the usual Easter gift of confectionary in favour of sunflower seeds, with a view to providing more sustained (and healthy) pleasure.
Lesley gave seeds to Alexis West, Wendy Burbidge, Roy Ballentine and Val Betts, instructing them to nurture them at home. They were then to bring in photographs to see whose flower had grown the tallest.
Sadly, Alexis' and Val's flowers withered. However, Roy's and Wendy's both produced flowers and they were declared joint winners. Their efforts secured them a bottle of wine.
News Search
Related News
Services available to elderly 'reducing'
02/12/2008
The number of services made available to patients has been reduced by nearly a third of health trusts, according to a new survey.
Age Concern: National entitlement to care needed
01/12/2008
Six in ten people believe that care and support services across the country provide only the minimum amount of required care, causing the charity to call on the government for change.
Pratchett to open RICE centre
01/12/2008
The new Research Institute for the Care of Older People (RICE) will be opened by Terry Pratchett in his continuing awareness campaign for Alzheimer's disease, it has been reported.
Winter's approach 'concerns elderly'
28/11/2008
Concerns over staying warm and well as the cold weather takes hold of the nation is troubling much of Britain's elderly population, a national charity has said.