RECENT NEWS

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.

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.