RECENT NEWS

A UNISON-backed report has called on the government to clamp down on internationally-owned UK care home operators that the trade union claims are ​not paying their fair share of taxes.

Barchester Healthcare’s under-construction Raleigh Manor dementia care home in Exmouth is on track to open this summer after it reached the topping out stage of the build.

England chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty has told social care staff and other front-line care workers they have a “professional responsibility” to have Covid jabs amid sluggish take-up rates.

Cornerstone Healthcare Group is to develop a 74-bed care centre in Somerset to add to its portfolio of highly specialised care homes.

The Scottish government has confirmed care home residents will be allowed two designated visitors and one visit a week for each from next month.

Care home organisations have given tentative backing to new government guidance that will allow residents one visitor from 8 March as part of the Prime Minister’s roadmap to ease lockdown restrictions.

Care provider Hallmark Care Homes and sister outfit Savista Developments have launched an inter-company programme, Care Accelerator, designed to foster to leadership and innovation skills.

Erica Lockhart, chief executive of the Surrey Care Association (SCA), is to retire at the end of March following 48 years of service to the care industry.

A group of leading care organisations have called on the government to resume care home visits by 1 March.

Health and Social Care select committee chairman Jeremy Hunt has pressed the government for detail on plans to reform social care, calling for a genuine long-term solution after previous “false dawns”.

Government must commit to finding ways to improve the quality and quantity of housing that facilitates care and support, according to a report commissioned by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE).

brighterkind, are part of Four Seasons Health Care Group, has become the first major care home provider in the UK to win a Feefo Platinum Trusted Service award.

Care home resident deaths involving Covid-19 in England and Wales fell by 13 per cent in the first week of February, according to the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) data.

Care UK will kick off construction of a 75-bed care home on the northern outskirts of Cardiff this autumn after receiving the green light from authorities.

Care home operator Abbeyfield Society has announced the death of its chief executive officer (CEO) David McCullough.

Medical tech outfit PainChek is leading a campaign that is lobbying Prime Minister Boris Johnson to take urgent action to improve the level of technology-enabled dementia care across the social care sector.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has urged all social care staff to take the Covid vaccine after he revealed around a third had yet to receive a first jab.

A venture between Audley Group, Schroders Real Estate and Octopus Real Estate has secured a £47m loan facility with Silbury Finance to develop a retirement village in Cobham, Surrey.

Marie Curie is working with Hallmark Care Homes to implement the provider’s end of life care strategy.

Occupancy levels in not-for-profit care homes in England fell to 79 per cent in January – around 10 per cent lower than the average level in 2019 – according to a survey of National Care Forum (NCF) members.