RECENT NEWS

Leading care home meals provider apetito is to host a free dysphagia awareness webinar next week.

Hallmark Care Homes has kicked off construction of the 76-bed Midford Manor development in Bath.

LNT Care Developments has filed plans to build a 66-bed care home on the outskirts of Derby.

Castleoak Care Developments has lodged plans with Vale of Glamorgan Council to build a 70-bed care home near Cardiff in South Wales.

Harrogate-based Vida Healthcare has launched a controlled admissions suite to enable the protection of new residents and the wider community at the specialist dementia care provider.

Hamberley Care Homes has opened a state-of-the-art property with bespoke Covid-19 infection control features in Bedfordshire.

Barchester Healthcare has filed plans to build a 70-bed care home on the outskirts of Eastbourne in East Sussex.

Ideal Carehomes is on course to open its 66-bed Sedgley Court care home in Dudley this autumn.

A report by Oxford Brookes University’s Institute of Public Care (IPC) and the NHS-backed Digital Social Care partnership has identified significant benefits for providers arising from the use of technology during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Dorset care home operator Bown Holdings has acquired The Shelley residential home in Worthing, West Sussex following a £2.1m funding package from Unity Trust Bank.

Care provider Vida Healthcare has hailed the positive outcomes from an innovative stretching class for residents living with dementia.

The organisers of the Dementia, Care & Nursing Home Expo and Home Care Expo have launched a series of webisodes aimed at providing support to care providers.

An East Sussex care provider and a former registered manager of one of its homes have been ordered to pay a combined total of almost £47,000 following an incident that led to a 56 year-old woman’s death.

Ideal Carehomes has lost its battle to build a 66-bed development in Cuddington near Northwich in Cheshire.

The Health and Social Care select committee is to pilot an independent evaluation system to give ratings on the government’s progress against its policy pledges.

The August edition of The Care Home Environment Digital is now available to read online.

The organisers of the Care Show and Health+Care conferences and exhibitions are to hold a two-day free virtual event next week.

Nottingham charity Radford Care Group is set to open a revamped day centre following completion of construction after a year on site.

The UK care home sector is failing to keep up with demand with the number of beds per 100 people over the age of 85 falling by five per cent since 2010, according to property consultants Knight Frank.

The number of specialist seniors housing units across the UK is forecast to grow by ten per cent over the next five years due to increasing institutional investment in the sector, according to property consultants Knight Frank.