RECENT NEWS

Sanders Senior Living’s care home The Belmont hosted Paul Gaskell, director of wellbeing and dementia care, for a series of dementia awareness sessions for the Worcester community.

Middleton Park Lodge nursing home in Leeds is offering every new member of nursing staff access to the company’s leadership development programme, where they can gain a diploma in leadership management.

Not-for-profit provider Housing 21 has begun work on a £13m Extra Care scheme in Telford, Shropshire.

Smart socks that track rising distress in the wearer could improve the wellbeing of people living with dementia.

RLDatix, global leader in governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) and human capital management (HCM) healthcare solutions, has announced the acquisition of UK-based Quality Compliance Systems (QCS), leading provider of content-driven SaaS compliance software.

Leading care consortium Spectrum has marked 20 years of providing support, advice, and networking opportunities to the care sector.

New Care has officially opened its new £15m Yorkshire care home Adel Manor.

McGoff Construction has commenced work on a new Surrey care home for Barchester Healthcare.

UNISON and the Care Provider Alliance (CPA) have written jointly to Sajid Javid urging him to reinstate COVID funding for social care.

Runwood Homes has launched its annual Blooming Marvellous competition.

Kingston Council has approved planning permission for Signature Senior Lifestyle to build an 86-bed luxury care home in Surbiton, Greater London.

The National Care Forum (NCF) has created a range of resources designed to help the care sector implement Integrated Care Systems (ICS).

The Care Sector Fundraising Ball is bouncing back following its hiatus during the pandemic.

Commercial laundry specialist WASHCO will once again be championing the care sector’s laundry stars with its Love Laundry Awards 2022.

Grove Court in Suffolk has been awarded a national Gold Standards Framework (GSF) Quality Hallmark Award for its delivery of end-of-life care during the pandemic.

Housing charity and care home operator Abbeyfield was invited to a session of the government’s task force on housing for older people on 25 April.

Contract caterer Elior UK’s head of nutrition Mandy Davies has won a health & nutrition award for the development of grazing boxes for care home residents.

Ivy Court, a residential and dementia care home in Balby, Doncaster, has been opened by Runwood Homes.

The High Court has ruled that the government’s policy of not isolating patients discharged from hospitals into care homes during the early stages of the COVID pandemic was unlawful.

The Care & Occupational Therapy Show is taking place at Westpoint Arena in Exeter on 21 June.