RECENT NEWS

Middlesex University researchers are to study the impact of music therapy on elderly people who live in care homes and are suffering from cognitive decline.

A planning application to develop a retirement community consisting of around 60 dwellings and 20-bed nursing home has been filed with Aberdeen City Council.

The House of Lords economic affairs committee has written to Care Minister Helen Whately urging the government to provide £8bn of immediate funding to improve care quality.

Research by dementia care specialist Vida Healthcare has revealed 76 per cent of adults believe it is unsafe to put a loved one in a care home during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Care workers across the UK have been sharing stories from their careers as part of an awareness week designed to shine a light on social care during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The care sector has reacted angrily at the exclusion of certain social care roles from the UK government’s new Health and Care Visa for foreign workers.

Care UK has lodged plans with Buckinghamshire Council for an 84-bed care home at Marlow Hill in High Wycombe.

A London care home has used lockdown to recreate classic album covers with eye-catching photographs of residents.

The Home Office has revealed details of how its Health and Care Visa scheme will apply to foreign care workers as the UK steps up post-Brexit employment arrangements.

Care providers have given a cautious welcome to forthcoming government plans to allow relatives to visit care and nursing homes.

The National Care Forum (NCF) has entered into a partnership with tax advisers Kieran Lynch & Co. to offer members access to VAT expertise during the pandemic.

Claire Johnsen has been appointed as head of innovation of care home construction outfit Savista Developments.

The leaders of 37 organisations have written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson warning that care homes and other social care services face a staffing "blackhole" due to the government’s proposed points-based immigration system.

Avery Healthcare has been granted permission to build a 56-bed care home in Northampton.

Care provider Runwood Homes is close to competing construction of an 81-bed home in Doncaster due to open to residents in September.

Cheshire West and Chester Council has refused plans by New Care to build a 69-bed care home in Northwich citing over-development of the site.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is to carry out rapid reviews of how health and social care providers are working collaboratively in local areas in response to Covid-19.

Legal services provider Markel is offering care and charity organisations one month’s free access to its online Law Hub.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has come under fire from the care sector after saying care homes did not properly follow procedures during the Covid-19 outbreak.

Construction is to kick off shortly on the £8m The Belmont care home near Worcester developed by healthcare property developer Prime and Sanders Senior Living.