RECENT NEWS

NHS leaders are calling on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to honour his pledge to fix social care ‘once and for all’ and to set out a timetable for reform.

An NHS Digital-funded project is offering care providers virtual access to innovation hubs that showcase the role of digital technology in care homes.

The government is to establish the National Institute for Health Protection (NIHP) to boost the UK’s ability to deal with and recover from Covid-19 and meet health challenges of the coming winter.

The National Care Forum (NCF), Quality Compliance Systems (QCS) and Standards Wise International have launched an infection prevention and control audit tool for not-for-profit care providers.

Cornish care provider Swallowcourt has teamed up with IT outfit Aztek Business to undertake a digital upgrade of its care homes in response to Covid-19.

Leading care home meals provider apetito is to host a free dysphagia awareness webinar next week.

Hallmark Care Homes has kicked off construction of the 76-bed Midford Manor development in Bath.

LNT Care Developments has filed plans to build a 66-bed care home on the outskirts of Derby.

Castleoak Care Developments has lodged plans with Vale of Glamorgan Council to build a 70-bed care home near Cardiff in South Wales.

Harrogate-based Vida Healthcare has launched a controlled admissions suite to enable the protection of new residents and the wider community at the specialist dementia care provider.

Hamberley Care Homes has opened a state-of-the-art property with bespoke Covid-19 infection control features in Bedfordshire.

Barchester Healthcare has filed plans to build a 70-bed care home on the outskirts of Eastbourne in East Sussex.

Ideal Carehomes is on course to open its 66-bed Sedgley Court care home in Dudley this autumn.

A report by Oxford Brookes University’s Institute of Public Care (IPC) and the NHS-backed Digital Social Care partnership has identified significant benefits for providers arising from the use of technology during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Dorset care home operator Bown Holdings has acquired The Shelley residential home in Worthing, West Sussex following a £2.1m funding package from Unity Trust Bank.

Care provider Vida Healthcare has hailed the positive outcomes from an innovative stretching class for residents living with dementia.

The organisers of the Dementia, Care & Nursing Home Expo and Home Care Expo have launched a series of webisodes aimed at providing support to care providers.

An East Sussex care provider and a former registered manager of one of its homes have been ordered to pay a combined total of almost £47,000 following an incident that led to a 56 year-old woman’s death.

Ideal Carehomes has lost its battle to build a 66-bed development in Cuddington near Northwich in Cheshire.

The Health and Social Care select committee is to pilot an independent evaluation system to give ratings on the government’s progress against its policy pledges.