RECENT NEWS

Care provider Hallmark Care Homes has promoted Martin Murphy from regional operations manager to operations director.

Care home staff are being urged to get a booster jab after a new study found they significantly reduce the risk of severe Covid-19 infections in residents.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has updated its regulatory approach to help create more capacity in adult social care as it faces pressure from Covid this winter.

A Care England poll has found more than 95 per cent of its members are still struggling to recruit staff despite government support.

Social care staff will receive the Real Living Wage in Wales as part of a package to support the sector, deputy minister for social services Julie Morgan has announced.

Signature Senior Lifestyle is to give staff up to 10 days of extra paid leave a year as part of the care home provider’s ‘Wake Up To Better Benefits’ campaign.

Ashill Land and McCarthy Stone has secured planning approval from Woking Borough Council Retirement Living PLUS (Extra Care) development for those aged over 70.

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced ‘record funding’ to help local authorities in England offer a fairer cost of care to providers.

JMW Solicitors has advised Grafton Land and Property on the sale of an Oxfordshire site, which will see the development of a new specialist care home.

The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) has recommended the government makes immediate changes to the immigration system due to the post-Brexit impact on the adult social care sector.

Ideal Carehomes has opened its £12m Cadley Hill View care home in Swadlincote, Derbyshire.

Target Healthcare REIT has completed the acquisition of 18 operational care homes as part of a £173m spending spree in the fourth quarter of 2021.

Skills for Care is reflecting on the past year with its2021 highlights campaign looking back at their key launches and activity through the year, as well as sharing good news stories from the sector during what has remained a challenging year for the

L&M Healthcare has been granted permission to build a 60-bed care home adjacent to its existing Hulton House in Preston.

The owners of Hopwood Court care home in Worcestershire have been granted permission to expand its capacity from 20 beds to 48.

Morrison Community Care has been given the go-ahead to build a 68-bed luxury care home in Dalgety Bay on the east coast of Scotland.

Malhotra Group has cut the ribbon on a £10m Sunderland care home that provide specialist mental health services across the region and beyond.

A report backed by Care England and National Care Forum is calling for ring-fenced government investment in the development of digital technology for care homes.

Meallmore has cut the ribbon on its Greenan Manor care home on the outskirts of Ayr in south-west Scotland.

The period of self-certified temporary exemption from Covid jabs for care home staff has been extended to 31 March 2022.