RECENT NEWS

The National Care Forum (NCF), the leading association for not-for-profit care and support providers, has responded to the chancellor’s Spring Statement.

Several leading national adult social care organisations have jointly called on the government to deliver a long-term care workforce strategy to tackle the issue of care worker pay.

Residential care provider Care UK finds itself going head-to-head with household names like Coca-Cola and Adobe after its nomination for a national award.

Welsh specialist care provider Care Without Compromise has been sold to national provider Choice Care in a deal overseen by Christie & Co.

Luxury retirement village provider Audley Group has appointed contractor GRAHAM to lead on the construction of Audley Scarcroft Park, a new 110-acre retirement village in West Yorkshire.

Digital care home marketplace Lottie.org has expanded its offering by entering into partnership with Runwood Homes and Sanders Senior Living.

Specialist real estate lender Octopus Real Estate has announced its commitment to building new care home developments that are net zero by 2030, marking the first such pledge across the care home sector.

Macc Care group is set to unveil Blythe Rose, its new dementia home in Blythe Valley Park near Solihull.

The Care Home Environment had the pleasure of attending the Pinders Healthcare Design Awards 2022 earlier this month.

Vida Healthcare has been named the UK’s leading care provider at the Great British Care Awards.

Starting this week, the NHS will be offering additional Covid booster jabs to care home residents.

When it comes to the best places in the UK for elderly care, Sunderland, Newcastle, Durham, and Barnsley recently came top in a Lottie.org survey.

Not content with opening almost sixty new care homes in the past twelve years, Care UK has made a start on two more – including a new build in Cardiff.

With the general supply of free lateral flow tests ending on 1 April, there are growing calls for the Government to continue to make Covid tests available free of charge to care home visitors.

Specialist property adviser Christie & Co has completed on the sale of Little Brook House care home in South Hampshire.

Residents in Care UK homes across the country have been taking part in some unusual forms of exercise as part of a seasonal get fit campaign featuring The Green Goddess.

Porthaven Care Homes' Haddon Hall home in Buxton, Derbyshire “requires improvement” according to the Care Quality Commission.

An existing building in Kilnhurst, South Yorkshire is being treated to a £2.3m refurbishment by Exemplar Health Care.

Calls for a change in the law to give care home residents the legal right to unrestricted visits from a care giver have been dashed by the government.

Developer Peveril Securities and Charterpoint have sold their Beeston care home development site to Tanglewood Care Services.