RECENT NEWS

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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