Care Home Management magazine's podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

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 affected?
• Why care homes must be aware of IDDSI
• How IDDSI helps providers and residents
• The potential risks if care homes do not comply with the framework
• How to involve a resident's family
• The difficulties care homes face trying to comply
• The importance of training and raising awareness internally.

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Podcast kindly sponsored by Hendrix Training - providing actors to support care home in-house training and for training films. 

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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 finalist can boost reputation and occupancy
• New categories for 2026
• How to enter
• How to sponsor a category and enjoy discounted advertising with CHM
• News of the Awards Lunch on May 15 2026.

Tune in now to find out more about the Care Home Awards 2026.

Podcast hosted by Steve Hemsley and kindly sponsored by Hendrix Training.

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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 potential threats to care home businesses from rising employer NI contributions and the jump in the minimum wage.

Join Christie & Co’s regional directors Rob Kinsman and Lee Howard alongside senior director Martin Daw as they discuss the future care home market with podcast host Alan Rustad.

Podcast kindly sponsored by soft skills training experts Hendrix Training.

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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 with JLA.

Join Olivia Nolan, business development director for care, and JLA's in-house chemist Lucy Cripwell as they discuss:

• Thermal disinfection programmes
• Remote maintenance and monitoring
• Why care homes need to buy machines that last
• Ozone technology and much more.

Podcast hosted by Alan Rustad and kindly sponsored by Rotacloud.

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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
• Sponsor news

Podcast hosted by Alan Rustad.

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Care home recruitment and resident occupancy are hard for providers to stay on top of.

On our latest industry-leading podcast with specialist communications agency Conteur, we learn the secrets to boosting both.

Join managing director David Huckerby and account director Natasha Jones as they share their top tips with podcast host Alan Rustad.

They discuss:

• Why care home operators must guard against putting all their eggs into one basket when it comes to communication
• Why your messaging must be consistent
• How to understand different media channels
• The power of video
• Using residents and their families as brand ambassadors
• Measuring success

Podcast kindly sponsored by Rotacloud.

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“Go to work on an egg” – perfect advice for care homes

The humble British egg has had a tough time of it in the last thirty years or more.

But the British egg is back in a big way. Packed with protein and vitamins but no sugar, it is playing a vital part on the care home menu – both as a cooked item in its own right or as part of dishes such as ice cream, cakes and mayonnaise.

In this special podcast we talk to British Lion Eggs about the importance of protein in residents' diets. Many residents are of an age where they remember how good eggs can be for their health.

Join food safety and hygiene specialist, Dr Lisa Ackerley and specialist older person’s dietitian, Alison Smith as they discuss how the protein provided by eggs helps older people in care homes guard against some of the problems increasing frailty can bring.

Of course, eggs must be cooked properly!

Podcast hosted by Alan Rustad and kindly sponsored by Rotacloud.

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For a care home to remain viable it must maximise its occupancy rates. But keeping occupancy levels high is no easy task. 

In our special podcast we look at:

• How care homes can ensure they keep residency levels as high as possible?
• The importance of sales and marketing
• Turning enquiries into residents

Join Ali Powell, CEO and Founder of Commercial Acceleration as she talks to host Alan Rustad.

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In this special podcast with Towergate Insurance and Care England we provide some top tips to help care homes purchase the most useful and cost-effective insurance.

• Are you insured for the right things? Protecting revenue as well as the building?
• What about cyber insurance?
• What if you had a data health breach?
• Working with insurance brokers

Join our experts, Care England's social care advisor Richard Ayres and Towergate's head of care Jason Brown.

Podcast hosted by Alan Rustad.

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PR and marketing can boost your care home's reputation, which can boost occupancy.

In this special podcast we explore the benefits of promoting your home locally and how you can drive enquiries using strong  and relevant content in all your marketing.

Our experts provide some great top tips to help care providers improve their marketing straightaway.

Join Five On A Bike Group founder York Woodford-Smith and Chew PR's founder Colette Lowe.

Podcast hosted by Care Home Management's publishing editor Steve Hemsley.

Podcast sponsored by Rotacloud.

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