RECENT NEWS
Barnsley care staff arrested amid ‘neglect’ investigation
South Yorkshire police have arrested five women as part of an investigation into suspected neglect in a Barnsley care home.- News
Cornerstone rocks up to upgrade Surrey home
Cornerstone Healthcare has begun work on the Marula Lodge specialist care nursing home near Camberley in Surrey.- News
Government project to test thousands of Four Seasons residents, staff
Around 10,000 residents and staff across 106 Four Seasons care homes in England will be offered repeat Covid-19 testing as part of a government surveillance study.- News
Northcare plots course for £12.5m Clarkston development
Scottish developer Northcare has filed plans to build a 68-bed care home in Clarkston in East Renfrewshire.- News
Florence splashes exclusive staff service for care homes
Health tech outfit Florence has launched a service to supply care homes with exclusive staff to fill rota gaps for a month or more.- News
UNISON: national care service ‘only way to prevent more deaths’
Social care should be free at the point of need as part of an NHS-based national system according to a report by the UNISON trade union.- News
Exemplar aims to set standard with Bradford development
Yorkshire provider Exemplar Health Care has kicked off construction of a £5m specialist care and rehabilitation facility in Wyke near Bradford.- News
C-19 care home death rate continues to decline
The number of deaths involving Covid-19 in care homes in England and Wales has risen to 14,398 - an increase of 376 on the previous week - according to the latest data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).- News
Top health civil servant defends C-19 care home guidance
The top civil servant at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has defended government guidance issued in early April that permitted the discharge of hospital patients to care homes without testing for Covid-19.- News
‘Layers of bureaucracy’ stifling Covid funds reaching care homes
The National Care Forum (NCF) has written to the government’s new national Covid-19 social care taskforce warning that funding for tackling the pandemic is not reaching the front line.- News
Scape Homes unveils plans to rock up in Stonehaven
Scottish developer Scape Homes is to submit plans this month for a 59-bed care home in the coastal Aberdeenshire town of Stonehaven.- News
Summer school teaches importance of dementia design
A six-week summer school run by TEDI-London is teaching 147 students from 21 countries the importance of design and engineering of enabling environments for people living with dementia.- News
Skills for Care hits it off with Care Friends
Skills for Care has teamed up with employee referral app developer Care Friends to help providers recruit and retain staff.- News
Music for Dementia radio station on air
An internet radio station for people living with dementia and their carers launched by the Music for Dementia charity is now broadcasting.- News
Care England: put digital integration at core of sector reform
Care England has called on the government to ensure all care settings have access to wifi and digital hardware to enable providers to run a service integrated with the NHS and other health and housing partners.- News
Providers urge government to heed warning on closures
Care providers have urged the government to take immediate action after the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) warned of closures due to the increased costs arising from Covid-19.- News
CQC to resume routine inspections in autumn
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is to resume this autumn the routine inspection of adult social care providers across England.- News
‘First of its kind’ care home to open in Hampshire
A nursing care home for the exclusive use of patients leaving Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth is to open this week, in a collaboration between Hampshire County Council and local NHS partners in response to Covid-19.- News
Webinar to launch Care Home of the Future campaign
The National Care Forum (NCF) will next week host a webinar to launch the Care Home of the Future campaign that aims to help the sector move towards a stronger future post-Covid by using state-of-the-art digital services.- News
BT dials in to care homes to mark Loneliness Awareness Week
BT is helping to tackle loneliness in care homes using volunteers from UK-based contact centres to make regular calls to isolated residents.- News
