RECENT NEWS

A national research project has been launched to study the impact of Covid-19 on retirement villages and extra care housing schemes across England.

The first residents have moved into the new £14m Queens Quay House care home in the West Dunbartonshire town of Clydebank in the west of Scotland.

Innovate UK has awarded £140,000 to a new tool developed by an offshoot of tech outfit Florence that helps care providers more safely staff their services.

The Welsh government has relaxed guidance for discharging hospital patients who have tested positive for Covid to social care settings.

Meallmore, one of Scotland’s largest independent care home operators, is to expand its portfolio following a £41m cash injection backing from HSBC UK.

Octopus Real Estate has acquired eight care homes from LNT Care Developments in a deal worth around £100m.

Many care home residents will not be reunited with loved ones by Christmas despite pledges by the government to the contrary, according to Age UK.

Covid vaccination of care home residents has kicked off in Scotland with the first jabs administered at Abercorn House in Hamilton in Lanarkshire.

Lancashire County Council has filed proposals to build a later living scheme consisting of a 45-bed care home and 65-apartment extra care development in Garstang.

Campaigners are renewing calls for urgent government reform to adult social care after NHS figures revealed that almost a quarter of older people seeking help in England were denied it.

National charity Making Space has picked electronic planning provider Nourish Care to improve the former’s quality of care through a dedicated digital platform.

Care provider Anchor Hanover has appointed Rob Martin to its executive board as managing director of care services with effect from 1 March.

Care UK directors are warning care managers from other providers to be vigilant after a quick thinking colleague at one of its Surrey homes thwarted a potential criminal trying to access the home’s bank account.

Coronavirus vaccinations of care home residents and staff have started at locations across the UK.

Later living developer McCarthy & Stone is to be sold to US private equity group Lone Star after shareholders backed an improved takeover offer.

Campaigners are challenging government guidance that puts a ‘blanket ban’ on trips out of care homes to visit friends and family for residents aged over 65, including over Christmas.

Later living community developer Inspired Villages has appointed Sonia Parol as design director to drive innovation, sustainability and resident wellbeing.

Professor Deborah Sturdy OBE has been appointed by the UK government as its first ever Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care in England.

The organisers of the 2021 Rugby League World Cup (RLWC2021) in England have teamed up with Community Integrated Care (CIC) to create a programme offering volunteering opportunities to people who have care and support needs.

Audley Group has appointed Henry Construction and Zenith Construction to support the restoration and new build phases of its Sunningdale Park retirement village in Berkshire.