RECENT NEWS

Care home resident deaths involving Covid-19 in England and Wales fell by 27 per cent on the previous week, according to the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) data.

Lovell Later Living’s new extra care facility in West Ardsley, Leeds, has achieved the topping out phase of construction.

The Royal Naval Benevolent Trust (RNBT) has completed the site acquisition for an under-development care home dedicated to veterans of the Portsmouth Naval Base.

Legal & General’s later living business Inspired Villages has begun construction of the UK’s first net-zero retirement community - the £120m Millfield Green scheme in Caddington, Bedfordshire.

Senior living developer Charterpoint has completed a deal to sell its under-development Bradway care home in Sheffield to operator Cinnamon Luxury Care.

A legal and regulatory specialist in health and social care has warned that with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) reporting a marked rise in whistleblowers, care providers need to be well-prepared.

Fewer than three in five care home staff in London have had a Covid jab according to the latest data from NHS England.

Openings of care homes for older people in England in 2020 rose eight per cent on the previous year while closures fell 24 per cent despite the pandemic, according to a report by CSI Market Intelligence.

The care sector will struggle to implement stringent Covid testing and infection control measures unless the government extends key funding packages, according to leading industry representatives.

Specialist dementia care provider Vida Healthcare has launched a training platform to support the career progression of its staff.

Kevin Shaw has been appointed as chief executive officer of Hallmark Care Homes’ assisted living brand Santhem Residences and its sister care home design and construction business Savista Developments.

Care home resident deaths involving Covid-19 in England and Wales fell by 34 per cent on the previous week, according to the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) data.

Handsale is on track to open a luxury 78-bed Cheshire care home with its own gastro pub and farmers' market in early June.

Former Tory cabinet minister Peter Lilley has put forward plans to introduce a state-backed insurance company to enable homeowners to protect against having to sell their homes to pay for social care.

Belgian healthcare REIT Aedifica has acquired for an under-construction, 66-bed care home in Shipley, West Yorkshire in an investment worth around £9m.

Emergency hospital treatment received by care home residents fell more than a third during the first three months of the Covid pandemic, according to Health Foundation research.

Care home revenue will recover from a dip in 2020-21 due to the success of the vaccine programme, according to a report by AMA Research.

Care England has backed the decision by the Home Office to give foreign social care workers greater opportunity to come to the UK following changes to immigration rules.

The Housing, Communities and Local Government select committee (HCLGC) has launched an inquiry to investigate how Covid-19 has impacted the adult social care sector and its long-term funding needs following the pandemic.

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has released new guidance on care home visiting that allows each resident to have one regular indoor visitor.