RECENT NEWS

The government is to provide English councils with £1.6 billion of new annual grant funding over the next three years for social care and other services.

The Local Government Association (LGA) and NHS Confederation are calling on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to use the Spending Review to provide genuinely new money for social care to help tackle the NHS backlog.

Belgian real estate investment trust outfit Aedifica has acquired the Uplands care home in Shropshire from Marches Care for £11.5m.

Care provider Handsale is to cut the ribbon on its £15m Priesty Fields luxury care home in Cheshire on 15 November.

Care minister Gillian Keegan will next month make a speech on housing-with-care at the Associated Retirement Community Operators (ARCO) conference in London.

Cornerstone Healthcare has launched an uncapped, annual ‘golden career’ bonus scheme for nurses in a bid to tackle the effects of the sector wide problem of recruitment and retention.

McCarthy Stone has got the green light to build a £41m urban retirement village in Wimborne, Dorset.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has warned an acute staff shortage in social care in England has pushed the sector to the brink of collapse.

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has launched a £162.5m workforce retention and recruitment fund to bolster the dedicated social care workforce.

Impact Healthcare REIT has acquired a purpose-built, 83-bed care home in south-west England for £5.75m.

Care provider Westgate Healthcare has opened the 60-bed Chestnut Manor home in Wanstead in east London.

Hallmark Care Homes has launched an initiative where a visit from a musician can be prescribed to support people living with dementia.

Care England has warned that mandatory Covid jab rules for the adult social care workforce that come into effect next month could place an unsustainable burden on providers.

An ‘Office for Care and Ageing Well’ that would monitor and report unmet care needs is one of host of recommendations in a new paper published by the Hallmark Foundation charity.

Signature Care Homes has won the Knight Frank 2022 Luxury Care Home Award for its Signature at Beckenham development in south-east London.

Fuel cost savings of 30 per cent and lower carbon emissions are realistic on all continuous flow hot water heating units and systems installed at any commercial site, according to tankless water heater supplier Rinnai UK.

Care home operators are under “huge pressure” to meet the November deadline for workers and volunteers to have been double jabbed, according to human resources consultancy HR Anchor.

Salveo Care has acquired the closed Chiltern Court care home in Buckinghamshire off an asking price of £2.2m with a view to building a new facility.

Vida Healthcare has appointed Victoria Edwards as manager of its flagship Vida Grange dementia care home in Harrogate.

Leading social care voices are to be questioned by the Housing Communities and Local Government (HCLG) select committee about the government’s plans to reform the sector.