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Barchester celebrates health and safety honours

Barchester Healthcare is celebrating after being recognised for demonstrating high health and safety standards.

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Business

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New law protecting care home visiting rights comes into force

New legislation protecting the rights of families to visit care homes has come into force.

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Policy & Politics

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Just 12% of unpaid carers understand new Carer’s Leave Act

A mere 12% of England’s unpaid carers have a “good understanding” of the provisions entailed ...

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Policy & Politics

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Hallmark Luxury Care Homes opens £22m Eastbourne home

Over 150 guests, including Mayor Councillor Candy Vaughan, were invited to the official opening of ...

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Property

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Unpaid carers to be entitled to five days leave

Unpaid carers for a person with long-term care needs will be entitled to up to ...

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Legal

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Social care minister plants tree at Anchor care home

Social care minister and MP for Faversham and Kent, Helen Whately, has planted a tree ...

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Policy & Politics

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Nursing home pledges ‘immediate improvement’ after Inadequate rating

A Yorkshire nursing home has said it has put a robust action plan in place ...

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Regulation & Inspection

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Providers warn of loss of overseas workers due to increased red tape

Campaigners have warned that a loss of overseas workers due to increased red tape could ...

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Staffing

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Lower Meadow embraces Holi celebration

Residents and staff at Runwood Homes’ Lower Meadow care home in Stratford-upon-Avon celebrated with a ...

1 month

Wellbeing

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Senior appointments for Fulcrum Care

Care home management consultancy Fulcrum Care has appointed Becky Garnett-Buchma as managing director and Kelly Brosnan ...

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People moves

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Chief Nurse Team Award for Suffolk Care Home

Stowlangtoft Hall Nursing Home in Bury St Edmunds received a Chief Nurse Award in recognition ...

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Training

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Anchor gains A+ credit rating with stable outlook

S&P Global Ratings has issued an A+ credit rating with a stable outlook for Anchor.

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Finance

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Grassroots group aims to tackle domiciliary care worker challenges

A grassroots support network for home care workers has been launched to help tackle recruitment ...

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Staffing

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Ashberry Healthcare acquires Wolverhampton care home

Ashberry Healthcare, a boutique care provider focused on small community living, has acquired Engelberg Care ...

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Business

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Care homes last in queue for PPE during Covid, Inquiry told

Care homes were the last in the queue for PPE during the pandemic, the Scottish ...

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Policy & Politics

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New resource helps care homes build creativity into every day

A new arts and creativity resource has been launched to help care homes build creativity ...

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Wellbeing

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Macc Care celebrates being rated top mid-sized care group

Macc Care group has celebrated being rated one of the top mid-sized care groups in ...

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Business

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Ombudsman finds home care visits were ‘frequently short’

A care provider has been asked to apologise and pay £200 after a family member ...

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Regulation & Inspection

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Championing Social Care set to launch as stand-alone charity

Championing Social Care, which aims to promote, celebrate and unite the care sector, has applied ...

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Associations

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Minehead home appoints manager

Minehead Nursing and Residential Home in Somerset has appointed Louise Heppenstall as its new home ...

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People moves

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Bield digital transition recognised with awards hattrick

Bield Housing and Care has celebrated an awards hattrick in recognition of its transition to ...

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Technology

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Buckinghamshire care home celebrates 10th anniversary

Residents and staff have celebrated the 10th anniversary of Fremantle Court Care Home in Aylesbury.

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Business

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Nursing home failed to preserve dying resident’s dignity

A Bristol nursing home has apologised after failing to preserve a dying resident’s dignity.

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Regulation & Inspection

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Care provider sanctioned for poor record keeping after falls complaint

A Sunderland care home has been sanctioned for poor record keeping and allowing people to ...

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Regulation & Inspection

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Home care service expands into new office

Bluebird Care East Suffolk, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft has opened a new office in Gorleston-on-Sea.

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Business

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We Care Group celebrates excellence at inaugural Shining Star Awards

In a heartfelt celebration of dedication and commitment, We Care Group recently held its first-ever ...

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Business

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OSJCT expands private pay offering with Elmfield Care acquisition

The Orders of St John Care Trust (OSJCT) has expanded its private pay offering with ...

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Business

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Camelot Care celebrates awards quadruple

A Camelot Care home has celebrated a quadruple triumph at a council awards ceremony.

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Business

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Care homes ‘pushed’ to issue DNR notices during Covid, Inquiry told

Care homes were pressured to issue Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders during the pandemic, the ...

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Policy & Politics

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MPs meet with dementia charity to discuss NHS funding

MPs met with dementia nursing charity Dementia UK this week to discuss NHS funding.

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Dementia Care

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Aurem Care marks completion of £2m refurbishment

Aurem Care has celebrated the completion of an East Sussex care home’s £2 million refurbishment.

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Property

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Watchdog gives damning verdict on social care visa policy

The former head of the UK borders watchdog has issued a damning verdict on the ...

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Policy & Politics

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Hallmark Luxury Care Homes acquires Cardiff site

Hallmark Luxury Care Homes has acquired a 1.78-acre site in Cardiff, Wales.

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Property

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HC-One invests over £39m in colleague pay

HC-One has announced its is investing over £39 million in colleague pay this year.

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Staffing

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Exemplar Health Care begins work on complex care home

Exemplar Health Care has begun construction of a care home in Doncaster, South Yorkshire.

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Property

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Routine Covid testing of hospital discharges to care homes to end in April

The routine Covid testing of hospital patients discharged to care homes is to end on ...

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Clinical

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Adopt a Grandparent signs up father and son

Charity Adopt a Grandparent has signed up its first father and son to virtually "adopt" ...

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Wellbeing

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Care leader slams ‘totally inadequate’ 8.8% rise in fees

A Wales council has been slammed for offering “rock bottom” fees after agreeing a 8.8% ...

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Policy & Politics

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Barchester’s Charitable Foundation appoints new trustee

Barchester’s Charitable Foundation has appointed Sally Hale as a trustee.

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People moves

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Agincare in “discussions” with Somerset Care over threatened care homes

Agincare has confirmed it is in “preliminary discussions” with Somerset Care over two care homes ...

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Property

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Exemplar Health Care opens Greater Manchester care home

Exemplar Health Care has opened a new care home in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester.

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Specialist Care

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HC-One expands sick pay to thousands of care workers

HC-One is expanding sick pay entitlements to more colleagues in its care homes.

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Staffing

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Lack of social care engagement costs lives during pandemic, inquiry told

A lack of engagement with social care cost lives during the pandemic, the Scottish Covid-19 ...

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Policy & Politics

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Impact Healthcare reports increased profit

Impact Healthcare REIT, a real estate investment trust comprising UK healthcare real estate assets, with ...

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Property

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Boutique Care Homes featured in luxury care home guide for fifth year

Boutique Care Homes has been featured in the Knight Frank Luxury Care Home Guide for ...

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Property

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Skills for Care to celebrate social care in April

Skills for Care is once again #CelebratingSocialCare in April and is encouraging all social care ...

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Staffing

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HC-One care home to close dementia units

HC-One has announced it is to close three dementia units operated in partnership with the ...

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Dementia Care

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Brenda helps with Peregrine House’s new digs

Peregrine House in Whitby is undergoing improvement work to create five more spacious luxury bedrooms, ...

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Property

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CCH Group rolls out Staffbase app at 220 sites

City & County Healthcare Group (CCH Group) has rolled out the Staffbase employment app to ...

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Staffing

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Ombudsman issues care home with critical notice

A care home has been issued with a critical notice by the Ombudsman following a ...

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Regulation & Inspection

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Vida Court ranked among top regional care homes

Vida Healthcare's Vida Court care home has been ranked as one of the top 20 ...

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Dementia Care

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Regulator seeks to cancel care home registration

An application to cancellation the registration of an Inverness has been submitted by the Care ...

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Regulation & Inspection

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Edinburgh City Council announces care home closures

Edinburgh City Council has said it is closing two care homes which are no longer ...

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Property

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Guild Care issues call to end social isolation

Guild Care chief executive Alex Brooks-Johnson has issued a call for an end to social ...

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Wellbeing

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Porthaven to deliver Milton Keynes home

Porthaven Care Homes has appointed Corby, Northamptonshire-based Kori Construction to build a £12.2 million care ...

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Property

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Bidfresh reveals key fresh food trends

Fresh food supplier Bidfresh has published its latest Fresh Trends Report.

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Catering

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Adoption of technology enabled care hampered by lack of understanding

Around half of councils in the UK believe there is little or almost no understanding ...

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Technology

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Meallmore care home celebrates third anniversary

Residents, relatives and colleagues have marked the third anniversary of Meallmore’s Greenan Manor in Ayr

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Property

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Leader calls for new social care funding models

Tony Stein, chief executive of Healthcare Management Solutions, has said new funding models are needed ...

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Policy & Politics

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Pandemic visiting restrictions for care homes were ‘cruel and punitive’

Visiting restrictions placed on care homes during the pandemic were “cruel and punitive”, the UK ...

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Policy & Politics

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Care boss accuses local authorities of ‘blatant hypocrisy’ on fee levels

Renaissance Care chairman, Robert Kilgour, has accused Scottish local authorities of “blatant hypocrisy and double ...

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Policy & Politics

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OSJCT renews commitment to Real Living Wage

The Orders of St John Care Trust (OSJCT) has renewed its commitment to paying the ...

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Staffing

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Captain takes the helm at Surrey care home

Surrey-based maritime charity The Royal Alfred Seafarers’ Society has appointed former Royal Navy captain David ...

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People moves

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Hartford Care expands Hampshire home

Provider Hartford Care is launching ten new en suite bedrooms at its Belford House care ...

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Property

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Research reveals users’ priorities for technology enabled care

Research commissioned by a group of care organisations has uncovered people’s top priorities for technology ...

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Technology

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Care home marks Global Recycling Day

HC-One’s April Park Care Home in Eckington, Derbyshire, marked Global Recycling Day by taking part ...

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Wellbeing

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UK Covid-19 Inquiry looks at impact on social care

Hearings begin on the impact of the pandemic on adult social care at the UK ...

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Clinical

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Cornerstone Healthcare secures Virgin Money care home funding

Cornerstone Healthcare has secured Virgin Money funding for a multi-million pound care home renovation.

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Finance

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Pebbles acquires young people home provider

Pebbles Care has acquired BDT Care Solutions, which operates four homes for children and young ...

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Business

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OSJCT migrates to cloud solution as part of digital transformation

The Orders of St John Care Trust (OSJCT) has migrated to a cloud communications solution ...

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Technology

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Birchgrove teams up with estate agent Hamptons

Specialist retirement property provider Birchgrove has announced a strategic partnership with estate agent Hamptons.

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Retirement living

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Colten Care holds dementia conference

Care provider Colten Care’s leadership academy held a conference for 80 staff members to discuss ...

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Dementia Care

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Billion pound cost of ambulance falls call-outs revealed

Almost £1 billion has been spent on ambulance calls for falls over the past four ...

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Clinical

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Leonard Cheshire to close care home after deregistration

Leonard Cheshire is to close a care home after it was issued with a de-registration ...

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Regulation & Inspection

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Home Office revokes care company’s overseas sponsor licence

A Borders care company has had its licence to sponsor overseas care workers revoked by ...

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Staffing

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Government provides £20m boost for social care and unpaid carers

A £20 million investment in innovative projects to support people in adult social care and ...

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Policy & Politics

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Black Swan Care Group renews Real Living Wage commitment

Black Swan Care Group has renewed its commitment to providing the Real Living Wage to ...

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Staffing

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Skills for Care publishes guidance on social care nurse placements

Skills for Care has published guidance to support the development of social care nursing placement ...

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Training

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First-time buyer acquires Chippenham home

Vishal Chandnani, a first-time buyer, has acquired The Priory a care home in Chippenham, Wiltshire ...

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Property

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Brixton care home unveils in-house pub

Limetree Care Home in Brixton has unveiled its newly renovated pub, The Lambeth Arms.

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Wellbeing

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Oakland Care named as top 20 mid-size care group

Oakland Care has been rated as one of the UK’s Top 20 mid-size care home ...

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Business

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Top care homes in the UK revealed

The top care homes in the UK have been revealed by care home reviews website ...

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Business

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Foreign care workers subjected to rape and exploitation

Care workers on overseas visas have suffered rape, sexual harassment and exploitation, an investigation has ...

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Staffing

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Home care provider expands into new area

Home care provider Bluebird Care Guildford & Waverley and Woking and Surrey Heath has opened ...

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Business

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Arrests made in £76m luxury care home fraud investigation

Three arrests have been made by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) as part of an ...

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Legal

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Wallacea Living appoints creative director

Integrated retirement community start-up Wallacea Living has appointed Sue Timney as creative director.

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People moves

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MasterChef winner serves up a treat at Signature care home

BBC MasterChef winner Jane Devonshire hosted a cookery class and Q&A at Signature at Highgate.

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Catering

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Anchor named Top 20 Large Care Home Group

Anchor has been named a Top 20 Large Care Home Group by a national care ...

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Business

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Robotic cat proves the ‘purrfect’ care home companion

A robotic cat named Marmalade is proving popular with residents at a Northumberland care home.

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Technology

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Student paramedics gain care home work experience

Student paramedics have been gaining experience of working in care homes as part of an ...

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Training

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Home care business gains second Outstanding rating

Home care provider Right at Home Solent & Southampton has been rated Outstanding by the ...

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Regulation & Inspection

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Target Healthcare increases rental income

Target Healthcare REIT has reported that its contractual rent increased by 2.4% in the second ...

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Property

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Abbey Healthcare pilots PainChek pain assessment tech

A care home pilot in Scotland has seen the number of pain assessments carried out ...

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Technology

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Overseas care worker restrictions come into force

New rules on overseas care worker visas have been introduced by the government today.

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Policy & Politics

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Liverpool City Council extends dementia care support

Liverpool City Council is extending its dementia support with the opening of new beds for ...

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Dementia Care

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Exemplar Health Care celebrates Top 20 care home ranking

Exemplar Health Care’s Dearnevale care home has celebrated a Top 20 care home ranking on ...

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Business

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Care home worker jailed after being filmed abusing resident

A Devon care worker has been jailed after being filmed abusing an elderly resident. Jinu ...

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Legal

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Westgate Healthcare to open two new care homes in Hertfordshire

Westgate Healthcare has unveiled plans to develop and open two new care homes in Hertfordshire.

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Property

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Care home residents experience life under the waves

Care home residents have enjoyed a deep sea experience thanks to VR headsets provided by ...

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Technology

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Lords voice concerns over impact of health and social care visa restrictions

A cross-party House of Lords scrutiny committee has voiced concerns over restrictions to health and ...

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Policy & Politics