RECENT NEWS

Social care employee referral app Care Friends is celebrating its first anniversary having paid out over £500,000 to care workers via its points reward system.

All Methodist Homes (MHA) retirement living schemes are now rated ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) following an uprating of its The Fairways community in Chippenham.

National Care Forum chief executive Vic Rayner has called plans to impose a 'no jab, no job' policy on the care sector a "logistical nightmare" for providers and called on the government to provide implementation support.

The government has confirmed plans to require from October staff in care homes with older adult residents in England to have Covid-19 vaccines.

Care home residents will be able to spend more time with family and friends - including overnight stays - as part of government easing of Covid restrictions.

Care UK has published a booklet on hydration and distributed it to all of its 124 care homes to mark Nutrition and Hydration Week.

Exemplar Health Care has opened a £5m care home for adults with complex needs in Bradford.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) will publish from 21 July the number of Covid deaths at every care home in England.

OakNorth Bank has provided a £50m loan to Brigid Investments, a special purpose vehicle formed by John Laing and Macquarie Capital to invest in McCarthy Stone’s retirement property rental portfolio.

Care home meal provider apetito is to publish a daily series of webcasts and podcasts during Nutrition and Hydration Week, which kicks off on 14 June.

National Care Forum (NCF) chief executive Vic Rayner has received an OBE in the Queen’s birthday honours for services to the social care sector.

Scottish developer Blackwood Homes and Care has launched a £12.5m project to create three ‘communities of the future’ in Dundee, Glasgow and Moray designed to help older people live longer, healthier and independent lives.

​Target Healthcare REIT has acquired a luxury care home in Scotland and a development site in Buckinghamshire for a total investment of £33m.

The number of people searching for a care home hit an all-time high in early spring as the UK emerged from the second wave of the pandemic, according to review website carehome.co.uk.

Campaigners are taking the UK government to court over the requirement for care home residents to self-isolate for 14 days on admission and after overnight stays.

North London care company Axela is one of 30 black founder businesses across Europe to be awarded with a cash award from a $2m Google funding pot.

Exemplar Health Care, a provider of specialist nursing care for adults living with complex and high acuity needs, is launching a staff training programme to help normalise discussions around sex and disabilities within care homes.

A national workforce plan for the social care sector should be introduced as a “matter of urgency” to tackle staff shortages and burnout, according to the Health and Social Care select committee.

Encore Care Homes has launched what is claimed to be the UK’s first care home rapid response team (RRT) to help older people in a care crisis.

The European elderly care property investment market remained buoyant in 2020 despite the Covid pandemic with €7.2 billion worth of transactions, according to consultancy Knight Frank.