RECENT NEWS

Wren House Infrastructure has acquired Voyage Care from private equity outfits Duke Street and Partners Group for an undisclosed sum.

Simply UK has submitted plans to build a 70-bed care home in St Andrews on the east coast of central Scotland.

Exemplar Health Care has been granted planning permission to build a 30-bed care home in Walsall.

Allegra Care and real estate fund manager Moorfield have completed the acquisition of two homes in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk from Alysia Caring, adding a further 133 beds to the partnership’s nursing, dementia and care homes portfolio.

Exhibition organiser ROAR B2B has launched UK Care Week, a new show that replaces the Dementia, Care & Nursing Home Expo.

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has extended the provision of free PPE to adult social care providers until 31 March 2023.

Castlemeadow Care has secured planning permission for the development of a £30m care complex in Halesworth, East Suffolk.

A survey by National Care Forum (NCF) has found 43 per cent of care home providers are closing to new admissions due to the impact of the Omicron variant.

Care home critical equipment and services provider JLA has unveiled a new brand and customer focus following a period of acquisitions and consolidation.

Care home broker Christie & Co has brought to market the former Newbridge House care home in Bath as a vacant site off a guide price of £2.5m.

UK care home operators could see costs rise by up to 30 per cent this year driven by labour, supply and finance, according to global property adviser Knight Frank.

Consultants Fulcrum Care has published a guide to how care home owners and managers can improve low occupancy and recruitment challenges.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has called on the government to set out a clear vision for social care that puts it on a par with the NHS.

The government has cut the care home isolation period following a Covid outbreak to 14 days following warnings that the protocols put the NHS under further strain and prevented residents from seeing loved ones.

BUPA has been ordered to pay a record £1.04m after a resident died in a fire while smoking at one of its care homes.

Cheshire-based provider New Care said it expects to create 800 jobs in the next two years as it prepares to double in size through new care home openings.

Scottish provider Balhousie Care Group has appointed former HC-One and Four Seasons Health Care director John Kirk as deputy chief executive officer (CEO).

Skills for Care has launched a series of activities branded #PrepareToCare22 to support social care employers in planning for the new year.

All staff across Encore Care Homes will receive a pay rise this month as a thank you for their ongoing support during the pandemic.

Sandstone Care Group’s Ribble Court care home in Preston has won a contract that is helping to free up acute beds in hospital this winter.