RECENT NEWS

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.

Anchor Hanover Group, England’s largest not-for-profit care provider, has acquired Halcyon Care Homes Topco Limited.

Vida Healthcare has announced a successful year for the recruitment and retention of staff.

The National Care Forum has welcomed a report by the Joint Committee on Human Rights on protecting human rights in care settings.

AI-powered pain assessment tool PainChek has received pilot funding from the Gwent Regional Partnership Board via its Technology Enabled Care Programme.

The National Care Forum’s Vic Rayner OBE has responded to two reports recently published by the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee.

Residential care comparison website Lottie has been valued at £45m after US venture capital firm General Catalyst agreed to invest £6.125m.

Christie & Co has completed on the sale of 29 Four Seasons care homes in Northern Ireland to Beaumont Care Homes.

Person Centred Software has launched an innovative integration with Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) local shared care record ‘Connecting Care’.

Digital care planning software provider Person Centred Software has been listed in The Sunday Times’ top 100 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the UK.

Commercial laundry specialist WASHCO has added a new category to its 2022 Love Laundry Awards – the Engineer’s Choice Award.

A new report from Skills for Care shows that the number of filled posts in social care is down for the first time since records began in 2012/13.

Christie & Co has completed on the freehold sale of Bentley Lodge in Bentley, Hampshire to local operator RMD Care.