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New face here at Inglewood
Here at Inglewood Nursing Home, we’re delighted to welcome Donna Hemington as our new administrator. Donna brings a wealth of experience, a passion for organisation and a deeply personal approach t...
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Sisters Annmarie and Debbie celebrate two decades at Inglewood
For sisters Annmarie and Debbie Foley, Inglewood Nursing Home is more than just a workplace – it’s been a second home for over 20 years. Most of that time has been spent together in the housekeepin...
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A Fond Farewell: Pam Retires After 25 Years at Inglewood
Inglewood Nursing Home has celebrated the retirement of an extraordinary colleague whose career at the home has spanned nearly 26 years and countless cherished memories. Pam Gillard, affectionately...
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Amanda’s pioneering tech journey
Amanda Rae, our Head of Quality and Compliance, has continued to pioneer the use of technology to provide the best possible person-centred care.
Earlier this year, she was honoured with the Digita...
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Rani’s compassion and commitment to excellence
Rani Raju joined Inglewood Nursing Home in 2006 as a nurse and became home manager in 2021. In that time Inglewood has flourished as a warm, friendly environment that delivers exceptional care to ...
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Caron chairs new East of England SCNAC
Our operations manager Caron Sanders-Crook has been appointed as chair of the East of England Social Care Nurse Advisory Council (SCNAC).
Caron was previously chair of the Mid and South Essex (MSE...
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Maz is the wind beneath Inglewood’s wings
Since joining Inglewood Nursing Home in 1999, domestic assistant Marion Rugless-Reid (affectionately known as Maz) has earned huge admiration and respect for her expertise in managing the home’s l...
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Celebrating nurse Atie’s excellence and compassion
Our Great British Care Awards finalist Atie Pashova is a steadfast presence on the night shift, ensuring residents’ safety and comfort during the quietest hours. With her unwavering dedicatio...
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Inglewood donates summer fayre proceeds to St Wilfrid’s Hospice
Staff, residents, families and supporters of Inglewood Nursing Home have donated £400 to St Wilfrid’s Hospice.
The money was collected during our summer fayre, and were the proceeds of the always ...
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Inglewood treasure Maz celebrates 25 years
Marion Rugless-Reid, affectionately known as Maz, has just celebrated 25 years working within our housekeeping team here at Inglewood. Characterful domestic assistant Maz is a huge personality, re...
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Tony Wallis-Yeo is our new regional trainer
As our new regional trainer, Tony works alongside colleagues Sandra Rogers and Roy Langstaffe in the team headed up by Sarita Baxter, Learning & Development Manager.
Tony grew up in Romford, Es...
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Meet Rebecca Histed-Lince – Quality Support Manager
Quality support manager Rebecca Histed-Lince is the newest addition to Canford Healthcare’s quality team.
Led by Amanda Rae, head of quality & compliance, the quality team is responsible for e...
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Pam celebrates 25 years at Inglewood
Inglewood administrator Pam Gillard has recently celebrated 25 years’ service at the home.
Pam started as a receptionist in 1999, and was promoted to administrator when the home became part of Can...
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Introducing Charles Wrightson
Charles Wrightson has become Canford Healthcare’s new financial controller. He manages the finance team, which is based in the company’s Bournemouth office, supported by finance manager Amparo Folg...
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Sarita becomes Learning & Development Manager
Sarita joined Canford Healthcare in 2022 as a regional trainer and has recently been promoted to head up the training team.
She brings huge experience to the organisation, having been a support wo...
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Introducing Emma Seamons – our new Head of HR
Emma Seamons has become Canford Healthcare’s new Head of Human Resources (HR).
Emma knows the organisation (and our homes well), having joined our HR team in 2017 as HR business partner. In this bu...
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Amanda Rae – digital innovation winner!
Amanda Rae, our Head of Quality and Compliance, has won Person Centred Software’s Digital Innovation Award at the company’s annual Champions of Care Awards 2024.
The awards celebrate the achievemen...
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Caron appointed as a Social Care Nursing Advisory Council chair
Caron Sanders-Crook, our operations manager, has recently been appointed as chair of one of the newly established Social Care Nursing Advisory Councils (SCNACs)…
Meet Roy, our new regional trainer
Roy Langstaffe has joined our regional training team to deliver face-to-face and virtual group training as well as 1:1 coaching to staff across our 11 homes.
Before coming to Canford Healthcare, Ro...
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Considering care as a career?
There are so many good reasons for anyone to think seriously about a career in care.
For one, it’s incredibly fulfilling and enjoyable, with a high level of job satisfaction and the chance to wo...
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MyCanford – enhanced staff reward & wellbeing
We’re delighted to announce the launch of MyCanford, a revamped and enhanced reward and wellbeing programme for our employees. This offers a wide range of discounts, offers and cashback from over ...
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Canford Healthcare industry award wins
Canford Healthcare’s very own Amanda Rae and Donna Barks have won awards and high commendations at the Women Achieving Greatness in Social Care (WAGS) recently.
Donna Barks, manager of our Tunbr...
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Meet our new regional trainers – Sarita and Sandra
We’re delighted to welcome Sarita Baxter and Sandra Rogers to our Learning & Development team. Their appointment comes as part of a strengthening and streamlining of the training and developme...
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Amanda Rae becomes a Queen’s Nurse
We are delighted to announce that Amanda Rae, our quality & compliance manager, has been awarded the title of Queen’s Nurse by the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI).
The QNI is the U...
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Canford Healthcare appoints green energy supplier Ecotricity
As part of our drive to conserve resources and reduce our carbon footprint, we have appointed renewable energy expert Ecotricity as the electricity supplier across our 11 homes.
Ecotricity’s com...
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Anyone for gingerbread?
Our staff and residents have had a lot of fun creating a gingerbread house recently, for another competition against our other 10 sister Canford Healthcare homes.
Here at Inglewood we didn’t jus...
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Introducing our Relatives’ Gateway
Just imagine the scene: it’s the middle of the afternoon, you are sitting in your lounge or at the office and you wonder what sort of a day your loved one is having here at Inglewood.
You grab y...
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Relatives’ survey – thank you!
We’d like to say a huge thank you to all our relatives who completed our recent relatives’ survey. We are so grateful to you for taking the time to give us your views and provide feedback, which i...
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Debbie Inkersole, our Operations Manager, wins industry award
Debbie Inkersole, our Operations Manager, has triumphed over many other entrants to win the Care Operations/Area Manager Award at the 2021 National Care Awards recently.
Organised by Caring Time...
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Chief nursing gold award for Caron!
We are delighted to announce that our operations manager, Caron Sanders-Crook, has been awarded the Chief Nursing Officer for Adult Social Care Gold Award in recognition of her outstanding service...
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Initiatives to help people coming into our care home
Tablet for all new long-term residents
Making the decision to move into care is never easy at the best of times. Whether this is for you or on behalf of a loved one, you may have concerns about ...
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Manager of our sister care home gives evidence before Joint Select Committee
Theresa Steed, manager of our sister care home, has given evidence at the Coronavirus: Lessons Learnt Inquiry organised jointly by the Science and Technology and the Health and Social Care Committe...
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Behind the Smiles: Caron’s moving account of PTSD
Caron Sanders-Crook, our operations manager, is the author of the newly published Behind The Smiles, a no-holds barred exploration of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and its devastating impa...
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Coronavirus (COVID-19): advice and guidance
In the light of the Prime Minister’s address yesterday evening and the government’s much tighter restrictions on people leaving their homes, we regret that we must now close our doors to all visit...
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Our Brexit preparations
The UK is due to leave the European Union (EU) by or on Thursday 31 October 2019.
Canford Healthcare is working with suppliers and co-operating fully with Government contingency planning to min...
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Nutrition & Hydration Week
Nutrition and Hydration
week took place this year from 11th – 17th March, and
encourages organisations to highlight and promote the importance of nutrition
and hydration within our diets.
When ...
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Old Time Music Hall
Our Head of Activities Sara turned the big ‘5’ ‘0’ so what better way to celebrate than with everyone getting together with an afternoon of Old Time Music!
With feather ...
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Meet our Administrator, Pam
Pam has worked at Inglewood Nursing Home for 19 years. Previously, she worked in the manufacturing industry, for a clean air company making clean air cabinets for the microelectronic industry. Pam ...
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Reminiscence
We enjoyed an afternoon of reminiscence, looking through old newspapers postcards and old fashion knitting patterns. Sparking lots of conversation between the residents, which we all enjoyed over t...
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NCS comes to Inglewood
NCS was founded in 2012 after the London riots to give young people a good name and break the stereotypes we hold teenagers too.
The programme consists of four phases:
Phase 1. One week at an activ...
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Phyllis turns 80!
Resident Phyllis recently turned 80, and we sure celebrated in style!
Phyllis joined Inglewood in April 2015, she was very poorly after a severe stroke and had also stayed in Eastbourne District Ho...
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Wine and Cheese Day!
Residents at Inglewood celebrated the ultimate pairing, wine and cheese for National Wine and Cheese Day which took place on 25th July.
National Wine and Cheese Day encouraged us to try a selection...
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Summer BBQ
With this glorious weather, what better to enjoy it than a summer BBQ! With good food and cool refreshing gin and tonics along with glasses of flowing rosé, residents enjoyed their evening supper.
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Flower Arranging
With a donation of some beautiful flowers, it only meant one thing, a morning of flower arranging!
With some eager and very creative residents, it was a lovely morning activity – and now we h...
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Our Marathon Runner!
How does she do it? Our Registered Nurse Saskia ran her third marathon this year, completing it in 4:39:24, which is 25 minutes faster than she ran last year.
Well done Saskia!
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Royal Wedding Celebrations
We couldn’t wait for the big Royal Wedding, residents and staff had all been discussing what Meghan’s dress was going to look like, what colours the flowers were and how amazing the ven...
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Sunflower Competition
Every year we hold a Sunflower competition, with all of our residents sowing the seeds in individual pots and setting them up in our courtyard garden which you can see from our main lounge.
Over th...
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Meet Resident Mollie
Mollie was the youngest of 4 children, she had a brother and two sisters. She went to a small private school but had to leave to look after her mother when her father joined the army, her sisters w...
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Meet Resident Rosemary
Rosemary is a local lady and was actually born in Hampden Park. She is now 94 and has lived at Inglewood for a little while now. She has always enjoyed living in Eastbourne and has particularly fon...
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Harvest Festival
Once again residents, staff families and friends joined us to mark our annual Harvest Festival Service, and a fantastic array of donations of non-perishable goods were kindly given.
The service was...
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Garden Centre trip
We always love to get out into the local area, and share happy memories when our residents were growing up in and around Eastbourne.
With our friends from Oomph Wellness we headed out to Hillier&#...
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Inglewood celebrates long service!
Having loyal and long-serving team members are the life blood of our business and as such we ensure we recognise those special milestones when they are achieved.
So to celebrate our staff members t...
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Brett’s Christmas Party!
Every year one of our favourite entertainers Brett, hosts a very special Christmas party for all the care homes in the area.
Brett’s party this year was held at the Old Town Community Hall w...
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Inglewood gives back to the Community!
In the Summer, Inglewood Nursing Home held a fantastic Summer Fete, with all the money raised going towards a local charity – Age Concern.
We raised a fantastic £500 for the charity – s...
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Canford Healthcare supports Ukrainian relief charity
Canford Healthcare has recently donated medical/care equipment and supplies to the Tunbridge Wells-based Ukrainian Relief Group (URG) for use by the medical services in war-torn Ukraine, as well as refugees arriving in the UK…
Canford Healthcare scoops two trophies at Care Home Awards
Canford Healthcare is delighted to announce that we have won two awards at the 2021 Care Home Awards.
Beating off stiff competition, we were named Best for Communication and Best for Non-Clinica...
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HealthInvestor Awards 2023
We are delighted to have reached the final of the HealthInvestor Awards 2023 in not just one but two categories…
Queen Elizabeth II, 1926–2022
We mark the sad passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II after 70 extraordinary years on the throne. She was Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, having celebrated her platinum jubilee only two sh...
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Inglewood’s Competitive Edge
As part of the fantastic Platinum Jubilee celebrations last month, our home’s residents and staff came together and excelled themselves by making and covering the home in all sorts of colourful an...
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