RECENT NEWS

The UK care home sector is failing to keep up with demand with the number of beds per 100 people over the age of 85 falling by five per cent since 2010, according to property consultants Knight Frank.

The number of specialist seniors housing units across the UK is forecast to grow by ten per cent over the next five years due to increasing institutional investment in the sector, according to property consultants Knight Frank.

Care homes meals provider apetito has launched a new product range designed in conjunction with Michelin-star chefs.

The National Association of Care Catering (NACC) has confirmed the NACC Training & Development Forum 2020, including the NACC Awards 2020, will return as a live event in October.

The social care sector should recruit UK-based workers to make up for any shortfall in recruitment instead of relying on immigration, the Home Office has told industry leaders.

Hallmark Care Homes has kicked off construction of the 80-bed Willingdon Park Manor development in Eastbourne in East Sussex.

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is to roll out up to 450,000 rapid Covid tests across adult care settings from next week.

The Welsh government is providing £22.7m in extra funding to help meet the additional costs incurred by adult social care providers as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Country Court Care has filed a planning application for a 70-bed care home in Raunds in Northamptonshire.

Care UK has started construction of a multi-million pound care home in Shrewsbury that will provide full-time residential, nursing and specialist dementia care for up to 80 older people.

The adult specialist care market has stood up well to the challenges presented by Covid-19, according a report by consultancy LaingBuisson.

Care providers Sunrise Senior Living and Gracewell Healthcare have signed up to the Vegetarian for Life’s Memory Care Pledge.

Leading care providers have voiced concern over the lack of available Covid-19 testing in their homes due to ongoing problems with test kits.

Luxury care provider Signature Senior Lifestyle has hired talent acquisition software provider Tribepad to help it recruit 1,000 staff across its care homes in England over the next 12 months.

The NHS should build on the closer working relationship between the health and social care sectors beyond the Covid-19 pandemic, according to Health Secretary Matt Hancock.

Local government should no longer be responsible for funding adult social care provision and citizens should be funded directly according to Care England, the country’s largest representative body.

England’s largest county councils have warned the government against a “knee-jerk” centralisation of social care in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Torsion Care has won permission from Bradford Council to build a 66-bed, canalside care home in Shipley in West Yorkshire.

The public accounts committee has demanded the government sets out by October how it intends to put social care on an equal footing to the NHS.

HC-One, the UK’s largest care home provider, has appointed James Tugendhat as its new chief executive officer.