http://www.careuk.com http://www.careuk.com/rss/careuklogorss.gif Care UK Care UK | Case Studies Feed http://www.careuk.com/ Welcome to Care UK, a leading independent provider of person-centred care to a broad spectrum of service users throughout the UK. en-us Copyright 2006 Care UK Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:42:47 GMT 60 Health Care Worker Training Saves a Life http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=70 Training received from care provider helped save a life in Birmingham between Christmas and New Year ... Featured job: Recruitment Manager http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=66 Sharon Bell has been pursuing her healthcare career with Care UK for 8 years and in January 2007 sta ... Life Changing New Approach To Care http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=65 A new approach to the way in which care is delivered to people in their own homes is changing the li ... Life Changing Support for Scarborough Man http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=64 A 41-year old Scarborough man with schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder and insulin dependen ... Featured Job: Branch Administrator http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=61 Gemma Satchell has worked as a Branch Administrator for Care UK in Newmarket for the last 18 months. ... Service users happy with learning disabilities service http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=60 The way care is provided for those with learning disabilities is continuously changing, and new appr ... Prison Healthcare Services http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=59 In recent years, the responsibility for health care services within the UK prison system has been tr ... Developing a GP Practice through APMS http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=58 Primary care has long been a bastion of the NHS, and the development of a role for primary health ca ... Confidence in Cragston Court http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=57 Cragston Court provides 24 hour care for people who need mental health nursing. It is a purpose-buil ... Job Profile: Regional Trainer http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=56 Melissa Stanway (Midlands and North West Regional Trainer) has been a member of Care UK for two year ... New Health Services at HMP Wellingborough http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=55 <b>The Project</b> Following the transfer of responsibility for prisoner medical treatment and care ... Bev's Double Hip Replacement Is Doubly Rewarding http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=54 A Killamarsh man is thanking surgeons for giving him and his daughter their lives back . Bev Smith, ... Learning disability no obstacle for Terry http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=53 A man who has mild autism and who until two years ago found it difficult to communicate or carry out ... A Positive Transition Experience for Adults with Learning Disabilities – Wedgwood Avenue http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=52 Early last year health care services provider Care UK won a contract in Stoke on Trent won a contrac ... Fancy a career change? http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=49 John Haines has been working for Care UK by working in health care employment as a home carer for Ca ... Job Profile: Care Co-ordinator http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=48 Vicki Harris's pursuit of her career in health care has resulted in her being one of a team of care ... Convenient Treatment at new Walk-In Centre http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=47 When Ken Johnson from Walkerville, Newcastle, suffered from an infected bite on his leg, he chose th ... Successful rehabilitation for patient with mental health problems http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=44 Background JD has always been a nervous, anxious individual with a tendency to become depressed. ... Job profile: Business Manager http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=43 Teresa Grant is responsible for the delivery of our homecare services in the Welling area of south L ... These Knees Were Made For Walking! http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=42 Greta Lawrenson, a keen walker, from Keyworth in Nottinghamshire is jumping for joy -well almost-at ... New Knee for Keen Walker http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=41 A keen walker who regularly clocked up 100 kilometres a week is well on the way to recovery, thanks ... Growing success at Loch Park http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=40 Loch Park Adventure Centre is part of <a href="/caresolutions.asp" target="_self">Care Solutions</a> ... GP primary care service for Chelmsford Prison http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=39 <b>The project</b> The commissioning responsibility for the provision of primary care to Chelmsford ... Children's residential home services in Wales http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=35 The Residential Care and Fostering Review bemoaned the lack of choice for Specialist Child Care Plac ... Life as a Care Worker http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=34 Alison Clarke, 37, knows all there is to know about being a Care Worker for Care UK - she's been per ... Newcombe House Self Harm Treatment Services http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=32 <h1><font size=3>Services for those who self harm UK wide</font></h1><h1><font size=2>Introduction</ ... Patient books in for a 2nd op at the new orthopaedic Treatment Centre http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=31 Michael Capes from Skegness in Lincolnshire had a hip replacement at the orthopaedic Treatment Centr ... Peninsula op takes away pain for busy mum http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=30 Lucy George-Foster from Yealmpton, is a busy mum of Benjamin, aged three, with a demanding career an ... Fostering Services - care beyond the call of duty http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=29 <b>Getting started</b> Audrey was a teenage mother who raised two boys and two girls of her own, so ... 'The children are like my own family' http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=28 <b>Introduction</b> Vi is undoubtedly a loving mother, who has raised four children of her own. She ... http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=27 Five years ago, Keith Robinson, 71, from Launceston, noticed that his right knee was starting to cau ... Pioneering homecare project in Suffolk http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=26 Care UK is working in partnership with Suffolk County Council on an exciting new project providing t ... Low secure forensic step down unit http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=25 <b>The challenge</b> Enfield Community Care NHS Trust was experiencing a chronic bed-blocking probl ... Intermediate residential care for older people http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=24 Redwood care centre near Guildford provides residential care for the elderly. It is home to 50 olde ... Resettlement for people with learning disability http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=23 <b>The challenge</b> Aberdeen's Woodlands Hospital was an NHS facility for people with learning dis ... Interim acute care solutions http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=22 <b>The challenge</b> Partnership Health Group (PHG) has been successful in winning a contract to bu ... Out-of-hours GP services – a partnership approach to primary health care http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=21 <b>The challenge</b> As a result of the introduction of the new GP health care services contract, t ... Orthopaedics – A Whole Systems Approach http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=19 Care UK, in partnership with Alliance Medical are able to offer a complete orthopaedic care package, ... Independent Sector Treatment Centres http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=18 In anticipation of the Government's strategy to create new acute surgery hospital care capacity, Car ... Making up for lost years http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=17 James Lappin (known to his friends as Jim) walks slowly down the garden path on the arm of his suppo ... Elderly Care Service Solutions in Richmond http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=16 <b>The challenge</b> In 1999 the London Borough of Richmond operated five residential elderly care ... Public to private sector transfer http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=14 Steve Reader provides an insight into the transfer of his hospital into the private sector... Ros ... Working for Care UK http://www.careuk.com/usercasestudy.asp?ID=12 We asked one of our nurses, Lovely Francis, who has experienced being recruited in India and has car ...