RECENT NEWS

Social care consultancy Quality Compliance Systems (QCS) and workforce development and membership organisation Skills for Care have joined forces to strengthen the support they provide to registered managers in adult social care.

Three in four staff working in care homes and home care say the Covid pandemic has had a serious negative impact on their mental health, according to the GMB union.

A new company with a local board of directors has been established to manage a portfolio of 12 care homes across Northern Ireland.

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.