RECENT NEWS

Vida Healthcare is celebrating after taking on over eighty nursing and paramedic placement students as part of its partnership with the University of Bradford.

Care sector leaders have reacted with cautious optimism to the government’s announcement of a new package of support for the domestic care workforce.

Skills for Care is running a campaign to inspire social care workers to #KeepLearning throughout January and February.

Later living developer Untold Living has submitted plans for a 139-home integrated retirement community (IRC) in Eastbourne.

The Briars Residential Care Home in Glemsford, Suffolk, has been sold to an established local operator.

Forty per cent of social care and health businesses say they feel unprepared for the CQC’s newly revised single assessment framework.

Mearns View Care Home in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, has been officially opened by Scottish Care chief executive Dr Donald Macaskill.

Care UK is spreading the joy of Christmas with its Care to Share initiative.

Signature Senior Lifestyle has marked the official opening of Signature at Highgate, its flagship £50m care home in Highgate, North London.

Oakland Care CEO Joanne Balmer has been named ESG Champion at HealthInvestor’s Power Fifty Awards for a second year in a row.

Loans from the development finance lender Atelier will allow construction of two new care homes in West Yorkshire and Cheshire.

The Lord Mayor of Birmingham has officially opened a dedicated dementia suite at Macc Care’s Austin Rose care home in West Heath.

Hallmark Care Homes has undergone a bold rebrand in order to broaden its appeal to new audiences and set it apart from other care home providers.

The Firs Residential Home in Derbyshire has been purchased by new entrants to the care sector following a confidential sales process with Christie & Co.

Hull-based HICA Group has purchased Fairways Care Home in Grimsby from Care Plus Group.

Vegetarian for Life and the Care Inspectorate have collaborated on new guidance on good care for vegans and vegetarians.

Not-for-profit care provider Sanctuary Care has reduced daily food waste in its 110 homes by 31 per cent in just one year.

Craigard Care Group – a portfolio of three Scottish care homes located in Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, and Moray – has been sold to new owners.

Rishi Sunak has visited a Northallerton care home in his constituency to help residents dress their Christmas tree.

Care UK has marked a construction milestone for Ladden View care home in Yate, near Bristol, with the help of the local mayor.