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Residents at a New Forest care home welcomed families and friends from the community for their fifth annual ‘festival of light’.
The sparkling walkaround in the garden at Colten Care’s Woodpeckers in Brockenhurst attracted around 130 visitors and raised more than £350 for the home’s charity this year, Olivia Inspires....

Specialist hospice staff are visiting significantly fewer patients in their home due to according to new data from Hospice UK, as part of a worrying trend where insufficient funding is holding hospices back from reaching everyone who needs them.
Data from Hospice UK’s Activity Survey showed that in 2024–25, specialist palliative care doctors and nurses across the UK made 590,000 home visits – down over 20% from 740,000 the previous year....

Thousands of NHS patients are set to benefit as the country’s best-run hospitals and community health trusts are set to be handed more independence – freeing local leaders from central bureaucracy so they can deliver faster, better, and more personalised...

A war horse sculpture handmade by residents as part of Remembrance season activities has taken pride of place at a north Dorset care home.
Several contributors living at Colten Care’s Newstone House in Sturminster Newton, including members of its dementia community, worked on the piece before it was put on display in the reception area....