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Everycare Eastbourne have won the highly commended award for medium sized businesses (10-50 Full time equivalent staff) at the Eastbourne Business awards.
Angela Fuller, Everycare Eastbourne’s Director said ‘I’m delighted to have been recognised for the important contribution we and all our fantastic staff make to the business community and the people of Eastbourne’
‘It was pleasing to have been shortlisted and we weren’t expecting to win anything so it was a delight when our names were called.’
The event was held at the Grand Hotel on Eastbournes seafront and hosted by Beverly Thompson and Ian Palmer from the BBC.
Business Awards
Everycare Eastbourne have been short listed as a finalist in the 2014 Eastbourne Business awards for Medium Sized business of the year.
Managing Director, Andy Taylor, said ‘We are delighted to have been nominated and to have been short listed for this award. It came out of the blue but it recognises the hard work that the company has done within the community to develop our services to the people of Eastbourne’
The final of the awards will be held at the Grand Hotel Eastbourne on Friday 21st of November.
For more information visit the Eastbourne Business Awards website.
Everycare Eastbourne chosen by UKHCA to develop Live in Care services across the UK.
Everycare Eastbourne have been chosen as one of only twelve companies to work with the UKHCA (United Kingdom Home Care Association) in developing Live in Services to the public across the UK.
Andy Taylor, Everycare Eastbourne’s proprietor said, ‘I’m delighted that we have been recognised for the excellent service that we already provide to our home care clients in being asked to participate in this venture with the UKHCA. They have recognised the ever increasing demand for care services is driving a new and fairly unregulated market within the Live in Care sector.
To ensure that moving forwards clients can expect the highest possible standards of Live in Care we will be involved in various pilots and steering groups to raise awareness of the service to the general public as well as to develop best practice across the industry. At the moment too many individuals are receiving completely unregulated support from carers working on a self employed basis often without adequate training – if any at all. We need to ensure that people receive the very best levels of service and care from properly trained, insured and appropriate staff from high quality regulated companies.’
The UKHCA scheme will be running across the UK for the next twelve months. Please watch here for further information or should you require further information on our Live in Care service please contact us on 01323 430762.
24 hour live in care is cheaper than keeping a person in an NHS bed.
A recent report in the Guardian newspaper has clearly found that most people in old age prefer to remain in their own home rather than go into a residential home.
It is clear that more needs to be done by NHS commissioners, local authorities and the government to support an individual in staying in their home ensuring that both care needs and care costs are managed more appropriately.
Whilst boyh the NHS and local authorities struggle with providing care to an ever increasing elderly population, the obvious choice of providing more live in care options appears to be ignored. Being able to stay in their own home, or return there after a hospital stay, improves an individuals sense of wellbeing and their health outcomes.
With the Care Act coming into force next year and the challenges of the Better Care Fund, it is the right time to raise awareness of live-in carers and nurses.
By facilitating early hospital discharge, live-in nurses reduce pressure on hospital beds and can hand over to live-in carers as the individual’s recovery progresses, if necessary. A cost comparison between keeping a person in an NHS acute bed versus allowing them to return home with support is favourable. A hospital bed, before accounting for other expenses, costs between £1,820 and £2,1702 per week. A live-in nurse could cost around £1,475 a week. This offers a potential saving to commissioners of between £345 and £695 per patient per week.
If you would like to discuss live in care services provided by Everycare call the Everycare eastbourne office today.
