RECENT NEWS

Specialist dementia care provider Vida Healthcare has unveiled a new, permanent location for its staff training department Vida Healthcare Academy.

The National Care Forum (NCF) was one of the organisations hosting The Global Ageing Conference in Glasgow on 7-8 September.

Skills for Care, the strategic workforce development and planning body for social care in England, is supporting social care teams to #RecruitRight with its latest campaign.

World Alzheimer's Month, the international campaign led by Alzheimer's Disease International, is again taking place this September.

Not-for-profit provider Anchor’s Skipton care home, The Mill House, has been selected as a finalist by Knight Frank in their Luxury Care Home Awards 2024.

Blossomfield Rose care home in Solihull has partnered with The Carers Trust to offer unpaid carers a place to network and socialise.

An £8.3m loan from Cynergy Bank will be used to fund Country Court Care Group’s development of a 63-bed residential care home in Halesowen, Birmingham.

Boutique Care Homes has unveiled plans for its latest care home, in the Reading suburb of Woodley Green in Berkshire.

Octopus Real Estate recently provided a £1.7m loan for the purchase of a two-acre Hampshire site with planning permission for a 60-bed care home.

Danforth Care Group has reached a key milestone of creating over 250 new roles in the care sector.

A new, purpose-built, 66-bed residential care home in Royal Wootton Basset, Wiltshire, is due to open in October.

Anchor, England’s largest not-for-profit provider of housing and care for people in later life, has been awarded Menopause Friendly Accreditation.

Barchester Healthcare has acquired a freehold site in Billericay, Essex, with full planning consent for a 76-bed care home.

Construction of Claremont Manor, a 71-bed luxury care home in Dawlish, Devon, is progressing well and is on course for a grand opening early next year.

Deborah Sturdy OBE, chief nurse for adult social care, was guest of honour at the opening of a brand-new nursing community at Hallmark’s Hutton View care home.

Care home operator New Care has officially opened Guiseley Manor, its second home in Yorkshire.

Not-for-profit provider Housing 21 has completed work in Doncaster on England’s largest net zero volumetric retirement living scheme.

Earsdon Grange care home in Wellfield, near Whitley Bay, has been awarded prestigious Diamond Status by North Tyneside Council.

Christie & Co has announced the sale of Hazeldene House, a residential and dementia care home in Chesterfield, East Midlands.

The National Care Forum (NCF) has responded to the government’s announcement of £600m ringfenced social care workforce funding.