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Is it time to check your care home tech?
We visit hundreds of care homes each year and with limited budgets and resources, it’s easy to see how a lot of the tech care homes are using is…let’s just say ‘getting on a bit’. And that’s fine to a certain extent, but unfortunately there comes a time where that might result in data loss,...
November 29, 2024
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Introducing WiFi as a Service (WaaS) for Care Homes
Traditionally, enterprise-grade wireless networks for care homes require  upfront capital. However, now there is an affordable solution that takes away the need for any initial outlay and instead allows care homes to pay for their WiFi on a subscription basis. It's called WiFi as a Service (WaaS). Modern Wi-Fi networks are effective for about 5 years...
November 22, 2024
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Care Home Energy Update: October 2024
Every quarter, as part of our Energy Price Comparison service for care homes, we bring you the latest market factors that could be affecting the price of energy for your care home. Here's your energy review for October: Britain’s last coal-fired power plant closed on 30th September, ending 142 years of coal-generated electricity in the nation...
October 17, 2024
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New Install: Hamberley Neurocare Basingstoke
Hamberley Neurocare Basingstoke is a newly built, state-of-the-art neurological rehabilitation centre in Basingstoke. GHM Care worked alongside Hamberley Development and constructors from the design stage, right through to completion, to provide a range of telecoms, WiFi and nursecall solutions. The setting Designed around the needs of people living with a range of neurological conditions, Hamberley...
October 17, 2024
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Care Home Energy Update July 2024
The following market updates are a snapshot of the current trends, enabling care home owners to make well-informed decisions regarding their energy procurement. With temperatures slowly rising closer to seasonal norms. This should reduce gas demand and increase supplies. Additionally, wind generation was predicted to be 20% above seasonal levels recently, which should help keep prices...
July 4, 2024
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Technology to reduce the admin burden in care homes
A recent study that highlights the pressures of admin within care homes and care settings is a very true reflection of  what our care home customers are telling us day in day out. Managers across nursing homes and other care settings are having to spend too much time on manual admin, taking them away of...
July 4, 2024
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Easy Computer Maintenance for Care Home Computers
Giving the computers in your care homes or head office a bit of a spring clean now and again can really help to keep them tip top and up to date. Here are some top maintenance tips from GHM Care's IT Support Desk Engineer, Jamie Thorpe: Restart Your Computers It may sound too simple to...
June 25, 2024
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GHM care home tech scoops Oxfordshire Business Award
GHM has won the First Sight Media Technology Excellence Award at the Oxfordshire Business Awards 2024. The Technology Excellence Award identifies and recognises an organisation’s focus on advancing their business through the use of technology and it was our NexusCare nursecall messaging and reporting solution for care homes, designed by GHM Care, that was the highlight...
June 12, 2024
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Analogue Switch Off postponed but now is still the time for care homes to go digital
BT has delayed the deadline by which care homes have to switch from physical copper-based landlines to internet-based services following various concerns, including support for vulnerable people. Nearly two million people in the UK use personal alarms which rely on analogue landlines, one reason why the deadline has been pushed back from the end of...
May 28, 2024
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GHM Care joins Care Leaders Network
GHM Care is delighted to become a Care Leaders Network Supplier Partner, the professional community for the leaders of Social Care organisations. The CLN exists to empower care leaders to build remarkable care organisations and as a partner to the organisation, GHM Care will work alongside care leaders across the UK to build, enhance and...
May 7, 2024
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