RECENT NEWS

Work has begun to start on an 85-bed care home with specialist on-site dementia care at Trafford Waters in TraffordCity, Manchester.

Sandstone Care Group has added a new home to its portfolio – Priesty Fields Care Home in Congleton, Cheshire.

Throughout November and December, Skills for Care is running a campaign to help social care workers feel confident with digital technology.

Nellsar Care Homes is looking to create a more inclusive environment following its efforts to mark World Menopause Day in October.

Social enterprise Challenge Works is partnering with social innovation charity Social Tech Trust to support teams competing for the Longitude Prize on Dementia.

The National Care Forum has responded to the publication of the National Audit Office’s report on Reforming Social Care in England.

Specialist business property adviser Christie & Co has announced the sale of Moormead House Nursing Home in Wroughton, Wiltshire.

This Living Wage Foundation Week (6-12 November) leading care sector meals provider apetito is celebrating eight years of supporting the real Living Wage.

Boutique Care Homes is set to build a new 78-bed care home in Kent after acquiring a 3.5-acre site in the coastal town of Deal.

Liakat and Nazira Hasham, CEO & Founding Partner of CHD Living, are celebrating a Lifetime Achievement accolade courtesy of the Social Care Leadership Awards.

Specialist real estate lender Octopus Real Estate has provided a framework loan to LNT Care Developments to support the development of new care homes.

Hartford Care has acquired Inver House care home in Bembridge, on the Isle of Wight, from Somerset Care.

Midlands-based Deeley Group has partnered with provider Exemplar Health Care to transform a former car park into a new 33-bedroom care home.

Luxury care provider CHD Living recently held a management conference with the theme of ‘moving forwards’ to present its vision for the future of the company.

Care UK is celebrating after a number of its teams were nominated in various categories for the Surrey Care Awards.

Regency Nursing Home in Southsea, Hampshire, has been sold to an operator with a care home in Dorset.

Larchwood Care has sold its portfolio of seven Northern Ireland care homes to family-owned operator Ann’s Care Homes.

Care England has welcomed the government’s announcement of £42.6m for adult social care via its Accelerating Reform Fund.

Care group CHD Living has put two more of its homes through a programme aimed at enhancing end-of-life care.

Britain’s largest care home operator, HC-One, has made free period products available to staff nationwide.