RECENT NEWS

Care home residents are set to be reunited with friends and family as visits begin again in England following the publication of long-awaited guidance by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).

Advinia Health Care is to install green heating systems in multiple care homes in an effort to reduce its carbon footprint.

Mandatory social care insurance appears to be the best option for long-term funding reform, according to the National Care Forum (NCF).

Care England has scotched suggestions that social care organisations should merge to strengthen lobbying efforts for post-Covid sector reform.

Retirement living developer McCarthy and Stone has launched a £100m land acquisition fund as it seeks to redevelop sites occupied by residential care homes, GP surgeries and other medical premises.

The Scottish government has given the green light to plans by Meallmore to build a 65-bed care home in the grounds of a hotel in Aberdeen.

Hampshire County Council has become the first UK local authority to trial so-called cobots – robotic lower back harnesses - in the UK care sector.

Social care organisations like Care England, the National Care Association (NCA), United Kingdom Homecare Association (UKHCA) and the National Care Forum (NCF) should merge to strengthen lobbying efforts, according to Independent Care Group (ICG).

Berkley Care has won the right to build a 95-bed care home in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire.

The director-general for adult social care at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has stepped down from her job in a surprise move.

Care home operator New Care has acquired a one-acre site near Salford with a view to building a consented 71-bed facility.

London provider Greensleeves Care is close to completion of its Henley House 66-bed residential and dementia care home in Ipswich.

Middlesex University researchers are to study the impact of music therapy on elderly people who live in care homes and are suffering from cognitive decline.

A planning application to develop a retirement community consisting of around 60 dwellings and 20-bed nursing home has been filed with Aberdeen City Council.

The House of Lords economic affairs committee has written to Care Minister Helen Whately urging the government to provide £8bn of immediate funding to improve care quality.

Research by dementia care specialist Vida Healthcare has revealed 76 per cent of adults believe it is unsafe to put a loved one in a care home during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Care workers across the UK have been sharing stories from their careers as part of an awareness week designed to shine a light on social care during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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.