RECENT NEWS

The Home Office has commissioned the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to undertake a review of the impact that ending freedom of movement has had on adult social care.

The government is eyeing plans for a cross-department housing with care task force as part of its imminent social care reforms, care minister Helen Whately has told Parliament.

The government will today table legislation to reform the health system, including a specific package of measures for the social care sector.

Limits on the number of visitors a care home resident in England may receive will be scrapped from 19 July under the government’s so-called Step Four easing of Covid restrictions.

Staff at Hallmark Care Homes settings in Essex and East Sussex are to work towards achieving an internal accreditation in Namaste Care.

Cinnamon Care Collection has opened Parkfield Grange, a 74-bed care complex in Stourbridge in the West Midlands.

Legal & General has sold three care homes to French real estate investment fund SCPI Pierval Santé for a total purchase price of £34m.

Lancashire-based consultancy CQC Compliance has been acquired by business-critical services outfit Marlowe for around £2m.

Centre for Health and Pastoral Care in Thirsk, North Yorkshire will in September host a two-day forum on practical, philosophical and spiritual approaches to aging.

People living in residential care homes for older adults and front-line social care workers are to be offered Covid booster vaccines from September.

Country Court is to open on 5 September its new 80-bed Castor Lodge care home near Peterborough in Cambridgeshire.

NHS Digital is sharing the findings from its innovation projects designed to develop and share technology in adult social care.

MPs will on 1 July hold what is claimed to be the first ever formal debate on retirement communities following lobbying by the Associated Retirement Community Operators (Arco) trade association.

Oakland Care has claimed it has become the first care home group in Britain to be certified as a carbon neutral business.

Hallmark Care Homes has announced the speaker line-up for its panel discussion on 1 July to mark Care Home Open Week.

Sajid Javid has replaced the disgraced Matt Hancock as secretary of state for health and social care.

The Department of Health and Social Care has extended the Infection Control Fund (ICF) until the end of September with an additional £142.5m of funding to tackle Covid in adult social care.

m4d Radio is celebrating its first anniversary with celebrities contributing individual playlists for a week’s schedule of programming on the dementia-focused station.

Vida Healthcare has opened the marketing suite of what is being dubbed the 'care home of the future' for people with dementia at the 100-bed Vida Court on the outskirts of Harrogate in North Yorkshire.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has appointed Tyson Hepple, currently director general of immigration enforcement at the Home Office, to the new role of executive director of operations.