RECENT NEWS

Government proposals to fix social care will be based on cross-party consensus for reform, said Chancellor Rishi Sunak.

Malhotra Group subsidiary Prestwick Care has unveiled plans to build a £10m care home in Ashington, Northumberland.

UK care homes are turning to technology to overcome staff shortages that make planning and managing rosters almost impossible.

Extra care housing developer Lovell Later Living has appointed Paula Broadbent as managing director with effect from 6 April.

Care home resident deaths involving Covid-19 in England and Wales fell by 35 per cent on the previous week, according to the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) data.

Retirement communities developer McCarthy Stone has appointed Alex Delamere-White as chief commercial officer.

Real-time time heat maps of over 5000 care home staff are being used by operators to help reveal the precise care resources and costs provided to any one individual resident.

HC-One is to refurbish over 200 of its care homes as part of plans by the UK’s largest operator to modernize its portfolio.

Leading care groups have urged the government to use Wednesday’s Budget as a springboard for long-term reform of adult social care.

Real estate fund Elevation Healthcare Core Plus has acquired two care homes in the English midlands.

Care UK has become the first care sector organisation in the world to join the Fair Kitchens movement that aims to make catering team happiness as important as diner satisfaction.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has told care providers they should not wait until the vaccination programme is complete to allow visits.

The UK has updated its code of practice (CoP) for the international recruitment of health and social care staff to align with the World Health Organization (WHO) to widen the global market from which it can ethically recruit.

Join Social Care, a recruitment platform previously operated in partnership with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), has launched an independent offering to attract 100,000 new candidates into the UK care sector.

OakNorth Bank has provided a £4.4m loan to complete construction of a new care home in South London that would have otherwise been delayed due to Covid-19.

Morgan Sindall Group has rolled its Later Living business into its sister firm Lovell to become a new division named Lovell Later Living.

Nearly three-quarters of social care providers would like to make a Covid vaccination a condition of employment for new members of staff, according to a poll by social care law firm Royds Withy King.

LNT Group has appointed Goldman Sachs to secure external investors in its care home development business.

More than 130 care homes in Greater Manchester are using an app to allow the NHS to monitor Covid-19 symptoms and support over 4,000 residents.

Care home resident deaths involving Covid-19 in England and Wales fell by 31 per cent on the previous week, according to the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) data.