RECENT NEWS

Health Secretary Matt Hancock MP will on Thursday answer questions from MPs on the government's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, including the discharge of hospital patients to care homes during the first wave early last year.

National Care Group - one of the UK’s leading providers of support services to vulnerable adults - has acquired Stepping Stones Care Homes, which operates three facilities in Northamptonshire.

Hallmark Care Homes will support Care Home Open Week and Championing Social Care on 1 July by hosting a live virtual event where attendees can experience a taste of what is offered to residents.

LNT Care Developments has acquired a Bedfordshire site with planning consent for a new care home near Milton Keynes for £1.2m.

A Surrey care community is celebrating the completion of an extension to its dementia care facilities, which will allow it to provide 11 extra bedrooms for new residents.

Digital care technology outfit Person Centred Software has been approved by the NHSX as a supplier of Digital Social Care Records (DSCR).

Signature Senior Lifestyle has revealed a glimpse of its conversion of the Grade II-listed Hendon Hall in north London to a luxury care home.

Winchester-based charity Brendoncare has broken ground on a new 60-bed care home to be built in its home city.

Industry body UK Music and the Music for Dementia charity have joined forces on a ground-breaking project to show how music can play a more vital role in improving health and wellbeing.

Research commissioned by care developer Castleoak has found just one in six people from generation X, Y and Z have a positive perception of care homes.

Legal & General has broken ground on a retirement village consisting of 151 new specialist age-appropriate homes in Chandlers Ford, Hampshire.

Orkney Islands Council (OIC) is inviting tenders for the contract to build a new 40-bed care facility in Kirkwall to replace St Rognvald House.

Oakland Care has launched new menus in collaboration with Michelin-starred chef Tim Allen to be rolled out across each of its six care homes in southern England.

Tech outfit Alcove, management consultancy Rethink Partners and monitoring service Provide CIC have been awarded the contract to deliver Suffolk County Council’s innovative care technology service over the next three years.

Hallmark Care Homes has promoted its regional director for England, Aneurin Brown, to group operations director.

The government has officially dropped plans to introduce legislation to restrict the movement of staff between care settings in England.

A third of UK jobseekers would consider working in social care after the Covid pandemic raised public perception of the sector, according to research by Totaljobs and the Work Foundation.

Law firms are urging Scottish ministers to set up a compensation scheme for bereaved families who lost loved ones in care homes due to Covid-19 after Holyrood admitted mistakes, according to newspaper reports.

Covid-related resident deaths in Scottish care homes with more than 80 beds were more than six times higher than in properties with up to 20 beds, according to official figures.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) will move away from a set schedule of care home inspections to a more flexible, targeted approach as part of its new regulatory strategy.