RECENT NEWS

A ceremony has been held to mark the topping out of HMT Littlehampton, a new dementia care home being completed in West Sussex.

The National Care Forum has responded to the government’s latest social care recruitment plans.

Purbeck House care home in Waterlooville, Hampshire, has been purchased by newly established care group VPP Estates.

Boris Johnson has launched a new national mission to tackle dementia, pledging to double research funding to £160 million a year by 2024.

Digital care planning software provider Person Centred Software and social care register Autumna have partnered to create a new live rating service for care homes.

Residents and staff at Brendoncare’s Ronald Gibson House in Tooting, South West London, will be transferring to a brand-new home next door.

Woodhayes nursing home in Exeter has been sold to family-run Stonehaven Care Group, one of the largest care home operators in Devon.

Luxury Broadstairs care home Chartwell House has celebrated the launch of its marketing suite with a special ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Family-run ACI Care Group, which owns and operates four care homes across East Sussex, Kent, and Northamptonshire, has received £7.35m of funding from Cynergy Bank.

A meeting of the West Yorkshire Dementia Ready Housing Task Force is to be held at Fern House, Bingley, on 23 August.

Housing 21’s Poppy Meadows Extra Care scheme in Didcot, Oxfordshire, has recently opened a show apartment.

The Alexandra Nursing Home in the coastal town of Tywyn, Wales, has been sold to new entrants to the care sector.

Two police officers are facing a manslaughter investigation after a 93-year-old care home resident died three weeks after being tasered.

Leading hygiene, nursing, and janitorial consumables supplier Beaucare Medical is celebrating its 30th anniversary this summer.

The government urgently needs to inject additional funding into the ‘ravaged’ social care sector, according to the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee.

The social care staffing crisis is putting the safety of NHS patients at risk, according to new NHS Confederation survey.

App-based care management platform Nourish Care is incorporating VCare Systems’ electronic medication administration record (eMAR).

Real estate developer and investment company Simply UK has launched its new Portland Care Group with a multi-million pound acquisition of six care homes.

Runwood Homes is celebrating a new 31-bed extension at Caldwell Grange care home in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, with an official open day.

Care provider My Choice Health Care has acquired two Swansea care homes in a sale managed by Christie & Co.