RECENT NEWS

The care sector has reacted angrily at the exclusion of certain social care roles from the UK government’s new Health and Care Visa for foreign workers.

Care UK has lodged plans with Buckinghamshire Council for an 84-bed care home at Marlow Hill in High Wycombe.

A London care home has used lockdown to recreate classic album covers with eye-catching photographs of residents.

The Home Office has revealed details of how its Health and Care Visa scheme will apply to foreign care workers as the UK steps up post-Brexit employment arrangements.

Care providers have given a cautious welcome to forthcoming government plans to allow relatives to visit care and nursing homes.

The National Care Forum (NCF) has entered into a partnership with tax advisers Kieran Lynch & Co. to offer members access to VAT expertise during the pandemic.

Claire Johnsen has been appointed as head of innovation of care home construction outfit Savista Developments.

The leaders of 37 organisations have written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson warning that care homes and other social care services face a staffing "blackhole" due to the government’s proposed points-based immigration system.

Avery Healthcare has been granted permission to build a 56-bed care home in Northampton.

Care provider Runwood Homes is close to competing construction of an 81-bed home in Doncaster due to open to residents in September.

Cheshire West and Chester Council has refused plans by New Care to build a 69-bed care home in Northwich citing over-development of the site.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is to carry out rapid reviews of how health and social care providers are working collaboratively in local areas in response to Covid-19.

Legal services provider Markel is offering care and charity organisations one month’s free access to its online Law Hub.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has come under fire from the care sector after saying care homes did not properly follow procedures during the Covid-19 outbreak.

Construction is to kick off shortly on the £8m The Belmont care home near Worcester developed by healthcare property developer Prime and Sanders Senior Living.

Target Healthcare REIT plc has agreed a £15m sale and leaseback deal with Ideal Carehomes for a newly-developed care home in Bicester in Oxfordshire.

The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) has backed calls by the leader of NHS England for plans to reform the sector to be place within a year.

The Abbeyfield Society, a charity operating over 400 residential homes for older people nationwide, has partnered with residential development firm Taylor Wimpey, which will see employees at the latter volunteering their time in the former’s homes.

Planning officers have recommended approval for Berkley Care’s proposed 95-bed home in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Wessex Care has become the first provider in the UK to commission an ultraviolet-C (UV-C) light decontamination technology in the fight against the coronavirus.