RECENT NEWS

Software provider Access Group has acquired Servelec with a view to creating an integrated health and social care offering.

King’s College London is seeking volunteers in the capital’s care homes for a medical trial that will test the potential benefits of a cannabis-based treatment to relieve dementia symptoms.

A legal challenge over government decisions and measures taken in relation to care homes during the early stages of the pandemic will be heard in October.

Labour has called on the government to close the loophole that means some care workers are not paid for time travelling between visits.

Scottish provider Mansfield Care has been given the green light to build a 60-bed care home in Haddington, around 20 miles east of Edinburgh.

Target Healthcare REIT has launched an £100m equity raise to part-fund an acquisition spree, including 18 operational care homes worth a combined £230m.

Pendine Park Care Homes has revealed plans for a 70-bed dementia care facility in Wrexham.

Montpelier Estates has lodged paperwork with Chichester District Council to build a 69-bed care home in Midhurst, West Sussex.

HomeSmiths and Tulip Care Environments have joined forces to host a pair of free webinars on refurbishing established care homes and keeping them marketable.

Care home deaths will form a key part of Scotland’s public inquiry into the handling of the Covid pandemic, the Scottish government has said.

A closed care home near Walsall has been sold by Prestige Quality Holdings off an asking price of £925,000.

A survey by the Institute of Health and Social Care Management (IHSCM) has found sixty per cent of care homes will be forced to sack staff who refuse to get vaccinated by the time the mandatory ‘no jab, no job’ rule comes into force on 11 November.

NHS England has written to health leaders stating that NHS staff visiting care homes must follow the mandatory Covid vaccination rules that come into force on 11 November.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has decided not to appeal last month’s High Court ruling that threw out the former’s claim for compensation for Care UK residents who had been charged upfront administration fees.

The UK government has approved a £40m loan from the £4.5bn Home Building Fund to accelerate the construction of 255 retirement homes in Audley Group’s Mayfield Villages portfolio.

Country Court has sold a development site with planning consent for a 60-bedroom care home in the Ifield district of Crawley, West Sussex to Lawrence Land.

New funding will allow more people with dementia to benefit from the power of music through specially designed programmes.

Health tech start-up Lottie has closed a pre-seed investment round of £500,000 at a pre-money valuation of £5m.

Urban Village Group has been granted permission to build a £12.6m care home in Telford, Shropshire.

Dudley Council has agreed to refund care home top-up fees for concerned families whose relatives were not offered an affordable placement, following a Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman investigation.