RECENT NEWS

Sajid Javid has replaced the disgraced Matt Hancock as secretary of state for health and social care.

The Department of Health and Social Care has extended the Infection Control Fund (ICF) until the end of September with an additional £142.5m of funding to tackle Covid in adult social care.

m4d Radio is celebrating its first anniversary with celebrities contributing individual playlists for a week’s schedule of programming on the dementia-focused station.

Vida Healthcare has opened the marketing suite of what is being dubbed the 'care home of the future' for people with dementia at the 100-bed Vida Court on the outskirts of Harrogate in North Yorkshire.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has appointed Tyson Hepple, currently director general of immigration enforcement at the Home Office, to the new role of executive director of operations.

Care minister Helen Whately has set out a personal vision for a joined-up, people-first health and social care system during a parliamentary debate.

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is to introduce new legislation to require all adult social care providers to provide information about all the services they fund.

Retirement village provider Audley Group has made three strategic hires to strengthen its senior leadership team as it enters its next phase of growth.

Graham Hill has been appointed as construction director of care home design and construction business Savista Developments.

HC-One has celebrated the opening of its new luxury care home in Nottingham, Fosse Way View.

National social leaders have called on the government to publish reform proposals ahead of the parliamentary summer recess on 22 July.

OakNorth Bank has provided a £7.5m loan to Springfield Healthcare for the construction of a luxury care home development in Beverley, East Yorkshire.

Researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) are to investigate how people who live, visit and work in care homes have coped with Covid-19 infection control measures.

Leaders of 50 charities and non-for-profit organisations have written to the Prime Minister Boris Johnson urging him to stick to his promise to fix social care.

BT is to roll out its employee-led Care Home Companions initiative across the UK in partnership with leading provider HC-One.

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.