RECENT NEWS

The care sector will struggle to implement stringent Covid testing and infection control measures unless the government extends key funding packages, according to leading industry representatives.

Specialist dementia care provider Vida Healthcare has launched a training platform to support the career progression of its staff.

Kevin Shaw has been appointed as chief executive officer of Hallmark Care Homes’ assisted living brand Santhem Residences and its sister care home design and construction business Savista Developments.

Care home resident deaths involving Covid-19 in England and Wales fell by 34 per cent on the previous week, according to the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) data.

Handsale is on track to open a luxury 78-bed Cheshire care home with its own gastro pub and farmers' market in early June.

Former Tory cabinet minister Peter Lilley has put forward plans to introduce a state-backed insurance company to enable homeowners to protect against having to sell their homes to pay for social care.

Belgian healthcare REIT Aedifica has acquired for an under-construction, 66-bed care home in Shipley, West Yorkshire in an investment worth around £9m.

Emergency hospital treatment received by care home residents fell more than a third during the first three months of the Covid pandemic, according to Health Foundation research.

Care home revenue will recover from a dip in 2020-21 due to the success of the vaccine programme, according to a report by AMA Research.

Care England has backed the decision by the Home Office to give foreign social care workers greater opportunity to come to the UK following changes to immigration rules.

The Housing, Communities and Local Government select committee (HCLGC) has launched an inquiry to investigate how Covid-19 has impacted the adult social care sector and its long-term funding needs following the pandemic.

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has released new guidance on care home visiting that allows each resident to have one regular indoor visitor.

Construction outfit Stepnell has completed the build-out of a £12m luxury care and retirement village in Solihull for Cinnamon Care Collection.

Government proposals to fix social care will be based on cross-party consensus for reform, said Chancellor Rishi Sunak.

Malhotra Group subsidiary Prestwick Care has unveiled plans to build a £10m care home in Ashington, Northumberland.

UK care homes are turning to technology to overcome staff shortages that make planning and managing rosters almost impossible.

Extra care housing developer Lovell Later Living has appointed Paula Broadbent as managing director with effect from 6 April.

Care home resident deaths involving Covid-19 in England and Wales fell by 35 per cent on the previous week, according to the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) data.

Retirement communities developer McCarthy Stone has appointed Alex Delamere-White as chief commercial officer.

Real-time time heat maps of over 5000 care home staff are being used by operators to help reveal the precise care resources and costs provided to any one individual resident.