RECENT NEWS

Care home developer Torsion Care has unveiled plans for a 72-bed scheme in York.

S.A.C. Construction has kicked off construction of a 68-bed care home in Thame in Oxfordshire for provider Care UK.

The UK is sleepwalking into a crisis of care for older people due to combination of a rapidly ageing population and a lack of NHS workforce planning, according to the Royal College of Physicians (RCP).

Plans for a 70-bed care home to be operated by Simply UK have been lodged with Shrewsbury Council.

Barclays Eagle Labs is to take a deep dive into the impact of the pandemic and Brexit on the care home industry in an online event on 17 March.

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has launched a new online platform for care providers to order free personal protective equipment (PPE) in England.

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is to revoke regulations making Covid vaccination a condition of deployment in health and social care settings on Tuesday 15 March.

Covid was involved in nearly a quarter of all care home resident deaths in England during the first wave of the pandemic, according to figures published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Highwood Group has started construction of a £10m, 64-bed specialist dementia care home near Littlehampton in West Sussex for Healthcare Management Trust (HMT).

Walter Thompson Contractors is to build Exemplar Health Care’s £4.7m Tees Grange care home in Stockton-on-Tees.

20/30 Labs has taken the wraps off its Covid infection control trial through the analysis of wastewater at Avery Healthcare residential care homes.

Sanders Senior Living has launched a resident-run shop that will be open daily at its Claridge Place near Solihull in the West Midlands.

Care England and Age UK have urged the government to fund free Covid tests for care home visitors beyond 1 April.

Care provider Nellsar has launched a dietary campaign to boost the physical and mental health of staff to coincide with You Can Care Week, a nationwide initiative that shines a spotlight on social care workers.

ROAR B2B has opened registrations for UK Care Week in July at the Birmingham NEC.

MPs have confirmed the appointment of Ian Dilks as the new chairman of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) following his appearance before the health and social care committee.

Kent County Council is to bring together a panel of experts to discuss the future of adult social care in the first ever Kent Care Summit on 2 March.

The UK is around 20 years behind the US in the development of integrated retirement communities (IRC) but has considerable scope for growth, according to estate agents Savills.

Abel Homes has secured planning permission to build a 64-bed care home and 40 extra care dwellings as part of a wider housing development in Swaffham in western Norfolk.

Loveday & Co will welcome its first residents to its new dementia care home in Kensington next month.