RECENT NEWS

The government and the NHS both failed adequately to recognise the significant risks to the social care sector at the beginning of the Covid pandemic, according to a report by the Committees of Science and Technology and Health and Social Care.

L&M Healthcare has won the 2022 Knight Frank Care Home Design Award for its Kitwood House in Rudheath, Cheshire that opened in August.

The government is actively considering plans for an English national care service as part of the Department of Health and Social Care’s forthcoming reform white paper, according to the Observer, citing Whitehall and Conservative party sources.

Anchor, England’s largest not-for-profit provider of housing and care to older people, has dropped Hanover from its trading name for all its services.

Ideal Carehomes is to make an £1.5m per annum investment in its care team by awarding a five per cent pay increase to all staff paid hourly.

Care provider Aster Healthcare has been fined more than £1m, with two staff sentenced, in connection with the 2015 death of a female care home resident with dementia in Berkshire.

Motitech, the Norwegian startup behind the annual Road Worlds for Seniors global virtual cycling event, has announced a 99 year-old Warwickshire care home resident has won the title of UK male champion for 2021.

The adult social care sector contributes £50.3 billion to the English economy according to a report published by Skills for Care.

Silbury Finance has provided a £55m loan for the development of a 103-apartment retirement village in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, owned by a joint venture between later living outfit Elysian Residences, Octopus Real Estate and Schroder Real Estate.

Excelcare has been announced as the number one ranked care provider for older people including dementia based on Care Quality Commission (CQC) ratings by Care Markets UK.

The National Association of Care Catering (NACC) has declared Aaron Watson of independently-owned Poulton-le-Fylde care home Primrose Bank as its 2021 Chef of the Year.

The Stronger Together Community Choir has won the Care Sector’s Got Talent 2021 gong awarded by the Championing Social Care charity.

National Care Forum (NCF) is partnering with Ryalto as mobile app provider for the former’s new Information Governance Network (IG Network).

Runwood Homes resident Wayne Fitzroy-Grayson of Windle Court care home in South Woodham Ferrers, Essex, has won NAPA’s (National Association for Providers of Activities for Older People) unsung hero award for 2021.

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

Skills for Care is putting the spotlight through October and November on supporting social care employers with staff retention.

National Care Forum (NCF) has taken over the running of Care Innovation Hub (CIH) after the latter suspended operations in March 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Care providers Sunrise Senior Living UK and Gracewell Healthcare have won the ‘Best Resourcing Initiative’ award at the 2021 CIPD People Management Awards.

Flintshire County Council has taken the wraps off proposals to build a new “state of the art” older adult care persons care home in Flint, working in partnership with Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB).

UK caterer Elior has entered into a three-year partnership with Alzheimer’s Society that aims to raise dementia awareness and around £100,000 in funds for the charity.