RECENT NEWS

The Association for Dementia Studies at the University of Worcester has kicked off a research project to explore the ability of extra care housing to support people living with dementia.

L&M Healthcare is inviting care professionals to attend an open day on 10 August at its pioneering Kitwood House dementia care home near Northwich in Cheshire.

Runwood Homes has rewarded each of its employees with shopping vouchers worth a combined £650,000 as a token of thanks for their dedication during the Covid pandemic.

Octopus Real Estate has raised a further £314m for its fund focusing on UK care homes- bringing its total value over the £1 billion mark - after attracting investors from the UK, Europe and Japan.

Care provider Cornerstone Healthcare has broken ground on its £10m Cale View care home in Wincanton, Somerset.

Retirement community developer McCarthy Stone has appointed Angela Harding as its new services operations director.

Care home construction company Savista Developments has scooped two National Building & Construction Awards for sister company Hallmark Care Homes’ Henley Manor in Oxfordshire.

Real estate outfit Rynda Healthcare has acquired a forward-funded investment with planning consent for a 76-bedroom care home in Market Harborough pre-let to Care UK.

A Devon care provider has been ordered to pay £33,661.60 at Plymouth Magistrates’ Court after it failed to protect residents from avoidable harm.

Signature Senior Lifestyle, which runs the recently unveiled Signature at Beckenham care home, has teamed up with Bromley Football Club to support adults in the local community.

Belgian real estate company Cofinimmo has acquired a trio of southern English care homes operated by Country Court for a total investment of £57m.

Covid jabs will be mandatory for all care home staff and auxiliary workers in England from 11 November after the regulations were signed by care minister Helen Whately.

Skills for Care has launched workforce trackers offering adult social care employers an ongoing source for monitoring trends.

A Nottingham family is calling for lessons to be learned after winning their four-year legal battle following the death of a care home resident with dementia.

Plans by the government to raise national insurance to pay for long-term social care reform have been thrown into further doubt after a senior minister appeared to rule it out.

The Welsh government has launched a social care recovery plan that sets out its immediate and short-term priorities to take the sector forward beyond the Covid epidemic.

A new purpose-built luxury care home near Preston has opened and welcomed its first resident.

Data published by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has revealed the extent of the impact of Covid-19 in care homes in England during the first and second waves of the epidemic.

The government’s mandatory Covid jab policy could lead to the loss of around 40,000 staff with a replacement cost of £2,500 each to English care homes, according to a Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) impact assessment.

Care providers Care UK and Signature Senior Lifestyle (Signature) are to acquire all Sunrise Senior Living and Gracewell Healthcare homes in the UK.