RECENT NEWS

The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) is to launch a public call for evidence on the impacts of ending freedom of movement on adult social care.

Inspired Villages has begun work on its 149-home Ampfield Meadows retirement village near Chandlers Ford in Hampshire.

HC-One is to make having a Covid-19 vaccine a condition of employment for all staff across the UK.

Hallmark Care Homes Foundation is to donate £78,000 to the Care Workers’ Charity over the next three years.

The Home Office has commissioned the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to undertake a review of the impact that ending freedom of movement has had on adult social care.

The government is eyeing plans for a cross-department housing with care task force as part of its imminent social care reforms, care minister Helen Whately has told Parliament.

The government will today table legislation to reform the health system, including a specific package of measures for the social care sector.

Limits on the number of visitors a care home resident in England may receive will be scrapped from 19 July under the government’s so-called Step Four easing of Covid restrictions.

Staff at Hallmark Care Homes settings in Essex and East Sussex are to work towards achieving an internal accreditation in Namaste Care.

Cinnamon Care Collection has opened Parkfield Grange, a 74-bed care complex in Stourbridge in the West Midlands.

Legal & General has sold three care homes to French real estate investment fund SCPI Pierval Santé for a total purchase price of £34m.

Lancashire-based consultancy CQC Compliance has been acquired by business-critical services outfit Marlowe for around £2m.

Centre for Health and Pastoral Care in Thirsk, North Yorkshire will in September host a two-day forum on practical, philosophical and spiritual approaches to aging.

People living in residential care homes for older adults and front-line social care workers are to be offered Covid booster vaccines from September.

Country Court is to open on 5 September its new 80-bed Castor Lodge care home near Peterborough in Cambridgeshire.

NHS Digital is sharing the findings from its innovation projects designed to develop and share technology in adult social care.

MPs will on 1 July hold what is claimed to be the first ever formal debate on retirement communities following lobbying by the Associated Retirement Community Operators (Arco) trade association.

Oakland Care has claimed it has become the first care home group in Britain to be certified as a carbon neutral business.

Hallmark Care Homes has announced the speaker line-up for its panel discussion on 1 July to mark Care Home Open Week.

Sajid Javid has replaced the disgraced Matt Hancock as secretary of state for health and social care.