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There were cakes for sale including: Key lime pie, Carrot cake, and many more. There was also a Bric-a-Brac sale. The staff in the kitchen all baked a cake for the “Best cake “competition, some staying up into the early hours of the morning to get them finished….

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A special mention was given to Jackaleen Paton who works on the domestic team who has worked at the centre for 25 years. Jackaleen started working at Murdostoun when the centre first opened in September 1995.

Set in the beautiful Garnock Valley countryside, Moorpark Place provides a comfortable home and residential care to 25 adults with autism. On Sunday, August 20, staff, residents, carers and family members came together to host an Fun Day at Moorpark to showcase our fantastic facility and strengthen links…

Families and carers are invited to join in with a day of fun, food, games and stalls to support building relationships and having an open approachable atmosphere for the service we offer. The summer festival was held on Saturday 20th August within the hospital grounds and involved a…

The specialist care home for men with mental health problems and learning disabilities was inspected by Nottingham CCG and scored 97% for the second year running. Inspectors for the commissioning authority looked at care standards as well as the home’s success in supporting men to move on with…

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Wiz Magunda, Hospital Director, Alice Reeds, Hospital Services Manager and Samantha Bond, Commercial Director for the Huntercombe Group opened the event. Our two consultants, Dr Shaheen Chaudhry and Dr Ramesh Billemane delivered presentations on Bipolar Affective Disorder and on Physical Health and Risk Management respectively. During the day,…

We then had a visit from White Post Farm, a local petting zoo who brought in a mouse, lizard, snake and tarantula!  They also brought some cute bunnies with them to balance it all out with a bit of fluffiness!

We performed it in the Fernwood Unit garden.  The actors were a mixture of therapy and care staff and a junior physiotherapist accompanied the play with keyboard and singing.  The props had been made by residents in activities groups leading up to the date of the play.  It…

For those of you who have never heard of this, it is essentially the ‘5k Race for Life’, but with inflatable obstacles and plenty of mud to get through.  The ladies decided on ‘Huntercombe Heroes’ as their team name and donned super hero themed sports gear to undertake…

September 2015. Our Edinburgh hospital that provides mental health services for young people has been rated as very good for its quality of care and support for patients, following an inspection by Healthcare Improvement Scotland. The hospital was rated very good or good for all five quality themes,…

Frenchay Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre was selected as a finalist in a national awards scheme about the way patient and staff feedback is used to improve healthcare services. The Friends and Family Test is a way to find out from patients, quickly and anonymously, how they rate their…

Moorpark Place in Kilbirnie was selected as a finalist in the specialist residential care category for the Laing and Buisson Awards 2016.  The team attended the Gala dinner on 29 November 2016 in London. Moorpark Place provides an unique environment for adults with autism with 25 individual houses served by…

“In our recent mixed media lessons we have come together as two units and made a group art piece about the British legion poppy campaign. The art piece we have made is to remember those who have lost their lives and those who are still fighting for our…

20 January 2017 Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal today opened our new hospital at Frenchay Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre, Bristol. Our new hospital, which has been constructed adjacent to the existing centre increases our capacity from 29 to 52 patients. The Princess Royal was escorted on a…