RECENT NEWS

Navin Mayani, former chief of Care Innovation Hub has set up Planit Consultancy, which works with social care providers to improve current employee engagement and retention strategies.

Maria Mallaband Care Group has kicked off construction of its £9.5m Lace Hill Manor care home in Buckingham.

Hallmark Care Homes has been granted planning consent to transform St Raphael’s care home in Bromley into a £30m state-of-the-art development.

LNT Care Developments has acquired a site with planning consent for a 100-bed care home situated in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.

Amanda Wright-Kluger, a partner and solicitor-advocate at law firm Browne Jacobson, has been appointed a social care ambassador for the Championing Social Care charity.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is holding a webinar on 20 September on how the regulator is monitoring and prioritising adult social care inspections during the pandemic.

Software provider Access Group has acquired Servelec with a view to creating an integrated health and social care offering.

King’s College London is seeking volunteers in the capital’s care homes for a medical trial that will test the potential benefits of a cannabis-based treatment to relieve dementia symptoms.

A legal challenge over government decisions and measures taken in relation to care homes during the early stages of the pandemic will be heard in October.

Labour has called on the government to close the loophole that means some care workers are not paid for time travelling between visits.

Scottish provider Mansfield Care has been given the green light to build a 60-bed care home in Haddington, around 20 miles east of Edinburgh.

Target Healthcare REIT has launched an £100m equity raise to part-fund an acquisition spree, including 18 operational care homes worth a combined £230m.

Pendine Park Care Homes has revealed plans for a 70-bed dementia care facility in Wrexham.

Montpelier Estates has lodged paperwork with Chichester District Council to build a 69-bed care home in Midhurst, West Sussex.

HomeSmiths and Tulip Care Environments have joined forces to host a pair of free webinars on refurbishing established care homes and keeping them marketable.

Care home deaths will form a key part of Scotland’s public inquiry into the handling of the Covid pandemic, the Scottish government has said.

A closed care home near Walsall has been sold by Prestige Quality Holdings off an asking price of £925,000.

A survey by the Institute of Health and Social Care Management (IHSCM) has found sixty per cent of care homes will be forced to sack staff who refuse to get vaccinated by the time the mandatory ‘no jab, no job’ rule comes into force on 11 November.

NHS England has written to health leaders stating that NHS staff visiting care homes must follow the mandatory Covid vaccination rules that come into force on 11 November.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has decided not to appeal last month’s High Court ruling that threw out the former’s claim for compensation for Care UK residents who had been charged upfront administration fees.