RECENT NEWS

More than 400,000 adult social care staff in England could still be waiting for their first Covid jab, according to analysis by the PA news agency.

Care provider Cascade has opened a £2.2m state-of-the-art residential care home near Norwich for people living with autism, mental health conditions and learning difficulties.

London-based luxury elderly residential nursing and specialist care home outfit Hamberley Development has promoted John Austin to the role of managing director.

The government has come under fire from campaigners for not showing the same “passion” for reform of social care as it has done for football matters.

The Care Home Environment magazine is making a final call for registrations for its free to attend Future of Dementia Care Design virtual roundtable to be held at 11am today.

Dorset care provider Avatara has secured a £1.5m refinance and acquisition funding package to reopen a care home near Dorchester.

Later living outfit Elysian Residences has formed a joint venture with Octopus Real Estate and Schroder Real Estate to develop a £200m portfolio of UK retirement villages.

Borough Care has become the largest residential care provider in the UK to receive a real living wage accreditation from the Real Living Wage Foundation.

Impact Healthcare REIT has exchanged contracts to acquire Carlton Hall care home near Lowestoft in Suffolk for a £10.3m net purchase price before transaction costs.

A Supreme Court ruling that sale and leaseback arrangements will not be subject to retrospective VAT charges could save care homes millions of pounds, according to tax experts.

Hertfordshire-based provider Westgate Healthcare is set to open the doors in June to its 60-bed Chestnut Manor care home in east London.

Care homes in England are being “failed” by a flawed rollout of rapid result lateral flow device (LFD) Covid tests, according to analysis of a pilot scheme.

Exemplar Health Care, which operates 32 care homes across Yorkshire, the Midlands, north-east and north-west England, has appointed Dr. Graham Rich as its new chairman.

The SNP will legislate for the creation of a National Care Service within the first year of the new Scottish parliament and aim to have it fully functioning by the end of the five-year term.

Plaid Cymru has set out its vision for delivering transformational change to social care in Wales by working towards offering care that is free at the point of need.

A UK government-funded trial involving robot vacuum cleaners to clean floors in 25 care homes found pathogen levels were cut by 41 per cent in three days.

Staff in care homes with older adult residents in England may be required to have a Covid-19 vaccine to protect residents from the virus under government proposals.

Care home residents are being “effectively barred” from voting in person in next month’s local elections due to government guidance on Covid self-isolation, according to the National Care Forum (NCF).

More than a third of care home managers are considering leaving the sector after working through the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a survey by workforce management technology provider Florence.

The number of weekly care home resident deaths involving Covid-19 in England and Wales have fallen to double-digit levels for the first time since early October.