Care Home Management magazine's podcast
An informative and entertaining podcast from the Care Home Management magazine editorial team. Hear a review of the latest care home sector news and interviews with the industry's movers and shakers.
Episodes
In the latest Care Home Management magazine podcast, host Steve Hemsley talks to Metro Rod managing director Steve Chambers about why drainage and plumbing are often overlooked elements of care home governance, risk management and CQC outcomes.
Chambers discusses how many care providers only think about drainage and plumbing when something goes wrong. However, failures can shut down kitchens, toilets, heating and hot water, directly...
Care Home Management’s series of Care Show London special podcasts continues with an interview with Nicole Ridgwell, partner at law firm Lester Aldridge and a specialist in health and social care law.
She explains how increased enforcement activity by CQC, including around inquests, means care homes require robust legal support.
Nicole outlines how care providers have been affected by the difficult rollout of CQC’s Single Assessment ...
In another special Care Show London podcast, Care Home Management’s publishing editor Steve Hemsley talks to Person Centred Software’s programme director, Care Intelligence, Ashleigh Dueker.
They discuss how the care sector is moving from instinct-based decision making to taking more evidence-based choices thanks to better use of data and benchmarking.
Ashleigh explains how the company will deliver a keynote speech and provide demons...
As part of our series of Care Show London podcasts, we spoke to Lee Newton, business development director at specialist contract caterer White Oaks.
The company will be at the Care Show talking about how care homes and other senior living customers can benefit from its scale and buying power as part of Compass Group.
Lee explains how with right review and controls, care homes could see up to a 20% reduction in catering costs.
Lee expl...
For more than 25 years, Moneypenny has provided professional call answering services to care businesses. From new care enquiries to urgent messages, we make sure every caller feels listened to and reassured - freeing up your team to focus on delivering outstanding care.
Care Home Management is producing a series of special bitesize podcasts for companies exhibiting at Care Show London (April 29-30).
In this podcast we discuss the ins...
In our latest industry-leading podcast, CoolCare’s commercial director Iain Corrigan explains how care homes can become more efficient and profitable if they implement the right software.
There are time and cost savings to be had if care homes choose software that has been specially developed for the care sector.
We discuss:
· How technology can improve daily operations, particularly in administration
· The potential ef...
Join our expert panel as we explore how Artificial Intelligence (AI) could impact care homes in 2026.
During the discussion we cover:
- Why it's important to de-mystify AI and remove the fear factor
- What are the business opportunities as well as the challenges?
- How do we get care homes to trust AI?
- How AI has the potential to drive preventative outcomes in care
- How AI is shaping the future of your tech stack
- How AI can improve res...
In a special podcast, Care Home Management magazine editor Ailsa Colquhoun talks to specialist food service provider apetito about how care homes can comply with the International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative (IDDSI).
The guests are apetito’s senior dietitian Rachel Sipaul and speech and language therapist and founder of Speakmore, Tracy Broadley Jackson.
The panel discusses:
- What exactly is Dysphagia and who is affe...
In our latest podcast, Care Home Management looks forward to the next Care Home Awards which celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2026.
This flagship event, of which Care Home Management is the media partner, is the perfect way for providers to reward themselves and their teams for best practice, and to boost their reputation locally.
Commercial director Helen Warrilow outlines:
- The benefits of entering
- How winning or being a finalis...
In our latest industry-leading podcast, we look at the state of the UK care home market and how the current economic and political landscape is impacting buyers and sellers.
We talk to Christie & Co’s managing director for care Richard Lunn, and head of healthcare consultancy Hannah Haines about trends, transactions and occupancy.
The Care Market Review 2025 special podcast reveals that market activity has picked up and yields co...
In our special podcast with workforce management systems specialists Planday we look at AI's role in balancing staffing needs, predicting revenue and improving scheduling efficiency.
We talk to Planday's principal AI engineer Tom Gadsby who discusses:
- The importance of starting small with AI pilots to assess its impact on staff retention and well-being
- Why you must gradually scale up, while maintaining human oversight a...
In this special podcast with communications specialists Conteur, Care Home Management discusses how care homes can and should be promoting their positive story.
Join Conteur's managing director David Huckerby and account director Natasha Jones as they provide top tips on how to create a positive narrative. These include:
- How to become a community hub
- Why you need to be authentic and consistent in your marketing
- How to leverag...
In the second of our special podcasts on Artificial Intelligence we explore how AI is improving care today.
We look at:
- How AI is improving care outcomes
- The use of AI to solve problems
- How AI is saving time and money by improving manual tasks
- The importance of Human Intelligence in this new world
- How AI supports residents and staff
- How AI improves data quality
Join guest host York Woodford-Smith from Five On A Bike as he discus...
Care homes can save time and money be reassessing how they replace and maintain their assisted baths and showers.
This is the message from moving and handling experts Medaco on the special Care Home Management podcast: ‘Top Assisted Bathing Trends That Won’t Drain Your Budget’.
Medaco is vendor-neutral, and operations director Steve Smallridge says the overall design on baths has not changed much during the company’s 40 years support...
Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) is the world's leading non-drug intervention for dementia, proven to delay cognitive decline by 4-6 months.
In this special podcast we talk to specialist Brain+ and its CEO Devika Wood, who explains how this digital solution is helping people living with dementia.
The therapy is delivered through multimodal group therapy, involving 5-8 residents, and recommended to be conducted twice a week ov...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is impacting on all sectors, and care is no exception.
In this special Care Home Management magazine podcast we discuss how AI is both an opportunity and a challenge for care homes.
AI has the potential to improve care-giving and the care business, but there are risks around data privacy, bias and the need not to ignore human oversight of any decisions made using the technology.
Join our expert panel of Ta...
Care homes can save time and money by digitalising their administration and, in future, having a better understanding of how artificial intelligence will change the care sector.
In our latest podcast ‘Digital Top Tip for Care Homes in 2025’ our experts discuss how care homes have reached different levels of maturity when it comes to digital transformation.
James Maynard, director of product marketing at Access Group, says providers w...
Our latest podcast looks back on the care home market in 2024 and explores the trends shaping the market this year.
The ‘Regional insights: The UK care market in review’ podcast dives into Christie & Co’s annual report.
The podcast provides valuable insight from Christie & Co’s experts who look back at the impact of last year’s General Election and high inflation which caused market uncertainty. In 2025 they explore the poten...
A care home’s laundry can be its Cinderella service – all work and not much fun. But when things go wrong, the knock on effects are often substantial.
Much has changed in the care home laundry. Machines have become ever more sophisticated in terms of power and detergent consumption. They can be monitored and possible future problems anticipated from many miles away.
Find out more with our latest industry-leading podcast wi...
As the media partner for the Care Home Awards, Care Home Management is delighted to bring you this special podcast to help providers celebrate best practice.
Join CHA commercial director Helen Warrilow and communications manager Rosie Pickering as they discuss why care homes should enter and how they can do it.
- Hear about new categories
- Practical advice on how to enter
- Deadlines
- News of the Awards dinner in London in May
- S...
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