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Tilbury Douglas completes construction of the £20m Red Kite View in Leeds

New dementia care facility completed in Harrogate

Dementia care home opens in Harrogate

Tilbury Douglas has successfully completed the design and construction of the £20m Red Kite View mental health facility in Armley, Leeds, for Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. The facility is an exemplar new mental health inpatient unit for young people aged between 13-18, offering expert therapy and treatment to some of the most-vulnerable young people in the Yorkshire region. It has been designed in partnership with clinicians and young people, who have contributed their ideas, hopes, an...

Vida Court set to open its doors to residents

Work has been completed on Vida Court, a new 100-bed specialist dementia care home in Harrogate. The home has been built on behalf of specialist dementia care provider, Vida Healthcare, which was established to transform the care available to people living with dementia in the UK. The company already has two purpose-built care homes – Vida Hall and Vida Grange. The new multi-million-pound facility is situated on a 3.5-acre site off Beckwith Head Road and will be home to 100 residents in eight self-suffic...

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