RECENT NEWS

Proving that everybody has a part to play in times of crisis, UK care homes are opening their doors and offering emergency accommodation to refugees arriving from besieged Ukraine.

A Cumbrian care home has been left reeling after a CQC inspection found that the facility 'requires improvement'.

With 29 March fast approaching, the Future of Care Conference will once again be highlighting key trends, challenges and calls-to-action to leaders from across the care sector.

A government-proposed amendment to the Health and Care Bill that would have included local authority contributions in the social care cost cap has been defeated in the House of Lords.

The Scottish government has launched a consultation on a Health and Social Care Strategy for Older People.

Quantum Care is on track to open in October its 72-bed Oakmoor Lodge care home in Bushey, Hertfordshire.

Hallmark Care Homes has conducted a topping out ceremony for its new 80-bed care home in Bath, Somerset.

Care home developer Torsion Care has unveiled plans for a 72-bed scheme in York.

S.A.C. Construction has kicked off construction of a 68-bed care home in Thame in Oxfordshire for provider Care UK.

The UK is sleepwalking into a crisis of care for older people due to combination of a rapidly ageing population and a lack of NHS workforce planning, according to the Royal College of Physicians (RCP).

Plans for a 70-bed care home to be operated by Simply UK have been lodged with Shrewsbury Council.

Barclays Eagle Labs is to take a deep dive into the impact of the pandemic and Brexit on the care home industry in an online event on 17 March.

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has launched a new online platform for care providers to order free personal protective equipment (PPE) in England.

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is to revoke regulations making Covid vaccination a condition of deployment in health and social care settings on Tuesday 15 March.

Covid was involved in nearly a quarter of all care home resident deaths in England during the first wave of the pandemic, according to figures published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Highwood Group has started construction of a £10m, 64-bed specialist dementia care home near Littlehampton in West Sussex for Healthcare Management Trust (HMT).

Walter Thompson Contractors is to build Exemplar Health Care’s £4.7m Tees Grange care home in Stockton-on-Tees.

20/30 Labs has taken the wraps off its Covid infection control trial through the analysis of wastewater at Avery Healthcare residential care homes.

Sanders Senior Living has launched a resident-run shop that will be open daily at its Claridge Place near Solihull in the West Midlands.

Care England and Age UK have urged the government to fund free Covid tests for care home visitors beyond 1 April.