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HC-One plans massive care home refurbishment programme

HC-One is to refurbish over 200 of its care homes as part of plans by the UK’s largest operator to modernize its portfolio.

Care groups make case for reform ahead of Budget

Leading care groups have urged the government to use Wednesday’s Budget as a springboard for long-term reform of adult social care.

Elevation Healthcare uplifts care home portfolio with acquisition duo

Real estate fund Elevation Healthcare Core Plus has acquired two care homes in the English midlands.

Care UK adds spice to Fair Kitchens movement

Care UK has become the first care sector organisation in the world to join the Fair Kitchens movement that aims to make catering team happiness as important as diner satisfaction.

CQC issues warning to care providers on visitor bans

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has told care providers they should not wait until the vaccination programme is complete to allow visits.

UK aligns with WHO code for ethical care staff recruitment

The UK has updated its code of practice (CoP) for the international recruitment of health and social care staff to align with the World Health Organization (WHO) to widen the global market from which it can ethically recruit.

Recruitment platform aims to sign up 100,000 social care staff

Join Social Care, a recruitment platform previously operated in partnership with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), has launched an independent offering to attract 100,000 new candidates into the UK care sector.

South London care home to stand tall with OakNorth loan

OakNorth Bank has provided a £4.4m loan to complete construction of a new care home in South London that would have otherwise been delayed due to Covid-19.

Morgan Sindall Later Living renamed Lovell Later Living

Morgan Sindall Group has rolled its Later Living business into its sister firm Lovell to become a new division named Lovell Later Living.

Three-quarters of care providers 'eyeing no jab, no job policy'

Nearly three-quarters of social care providers would like to make a Covid vaccination a condition of employment for new members of staff, according to a poll by social care law firm Royds Withy King.

LNT Care Developments seeks investment to spur growth

LNT Group has appointed Goldman Sachs to secure external investors in its care home development business.

Greater Manchester care homes log on to Covid symptom app

More than 130 care homes in Greater Manchester are using an app to allow the NHS to monitor Covid-19 symptoms and support over 4,000 residents.

Weekly Covid-related care home resident deaths fall by a third

Care home resident deaths involving Covid-19 in England and Wales fell by 31 per cent on the previous week, according to the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) data.

UNISON: get tough on tax with care operators

A UNISON-backed report has called on the government to clamp down on internationally-owned UK care home operators that the trade union claims are ​not paying their fair share of taxes.

Barchester on track for Devon home summer opening

Barchester Healthcare’s under-construction Raleigh Manor dementia care home in Exmouth is on track to open this summer after it reached the topping out stage of the build.

Whitty: care staff have professional responsibility to get jabs

England chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty has told social care staff and other front-line care workers they have a “professional responsibility” to have Covid jabs amid sluggish take-up rates.

Cornerstone Healthcare unveils £10m plan for Somerset care centre

Cornerstone Healthcare Group is to develop a 74-bed care centre in Somerset to add to its portfolio of highly specialised care homes.

Scotland to allow two designated visitors from early March

The Scottish government has confirmed care home residents will be allowed two designated visitors and one visit a week for each from next month.

Care organisations give qualified welcome to visitor guidance

Care home organisations have given tentative backing to new government guidance that will allow residents one visitor from 8 March as part of the Prime Minister’s roadmap to ease lockdown restrictions.

Hallmark, Savista Developments launch Care Accelerator programme

Care provider Hallmark Care Homes and sister outfit Savista Developments have launched an inter-company programme, Care Accelerator, designed to foster to leadership and innovation skills.

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