RECENT NEWS

An extensive academic study has found care home resident falls can be slashed via a co-ordinated approach to prevention.

Leading dementia care operator Belong will extend remuneration above the Real Living Wage for all staff from next month, increasing its starting salary to a minimum of £10 per hour.

Kingston Council has teamed up with care home operator Anavo Group to run a new state-of-the-art dementia care nursing home in Surbiton.

Barchester Healthcare has acquired a consented development site for a 68-bedroom care home in Bath from C Squared Property Developments.

Hallmark Care Homes has secured a £28m loan from Virgin Money to fund the development of two 80-bed care homes in Eastbourne and Bath.

The University of Sheffield has been awarded £10m to fund a new Centre for Care to address the need for accessible research on social care.

London-based chartered surveyors and commercial property services firm Fleurets has opened a new healthcare division led by former DC Care regional director Alison Willoughby.

The December edition of The Care Home Environment has been published and is available to read online.

Sunrise Senior Living & Gracewell Healthcare have completed the transition of 46 care homes to Care UK and Signature Senior Lifestyle.

LNT Care Developments and Lovel Developments have filed plans for a mixed scheme consisting of a 66-bed care home and 14 houses in Market Weighton, East Yorkshire.

Anchor said it has seen occupancy rates at its care homes recover strongly as it reached a year-end target six months ahead of schedule.

The UK’s leading care provider HC-One to make its biggest ever investment in pay to ensure its experienced and trained carers can earn above the Real Living Wage.

The £500m earmarked by the government to support the care workforce will be focused on “levelling up the knowledge, skills and experience” of workers across the sector, according to chief nurse for adult social care in England Deborah Sturdy.

The government’s white paper on adult social care is designed to provide a “suitable and sustainable” system for the future, according to care minister Gillian Keegan.

The government is to invest £150m to drive greater adoption of technology and achieve widespread digitisation across adult social care as part of its sector reform white paper.

The social care sector in England may have lost up to 70,000 workers across all settings in the past six months, according to analysis of government figures by the Nuffield Trust.

Civil engineers Farrans has kicked off construction of a £13m Passivhaus care home in Leighton Buzzard for Central Bedfordshire Council.

Ideal Carehomes is to welcome its first residents at its new, £12m Foley Grange care home in Kidderminster next month.

Calendula Group has acquired the 87-bed Bebington care home in the Wirral from Four Seasons Health Care with a view to a £1m programme of refurbishment.

Retirement village provider Audley Group has appointed Matthew Nicholson as its new planning director.