Healthcare professionals need to talk about death, says report
Doctors need to get better at having frank conversations earlier with terminally ill patients or those in the final stages of life, the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has said. Despite one in three adults admitted to hospital through acute care being in their final…
Impact Healthcare’s portfolio value rises 7.3%
Impact Healthcare REIT’s property portfolio rose by 7.3% in value to £197.9m in the quarter to 30 September 2018. The rise of £13.6m included £9.9m worth of acquisitions and £2.6m in capital expenditure on improvements to its properties, its trading update said. As a result,…
Civitas seals £8.8m property deals
Civitas Social Housing plc has announced two separate deals – each worth more than £4m and 86 tenancies. One of the deals is for three social housing sites comprising 66 tenancies for £4.6m, while it has also exchanged contracts on another property that has 20…
Saga’s new care service helps grow revenue
Revenue at domiciliary provider Saga Healthcare grew by 7.4% to £5.6m (2017: £5.2m) in the year ended 31 January 2018, with the company adding a new care product to its brand proposition. Cost of sales dipped slightly to £1.6m, from £1.7m in 2017. Following administrative…
Lack of plan for integrating health and care, MPs conclude
Successive governments have failed to make joined-up health and social care provision work in the country despite 20 years of mooting plans, according to a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report. The committee said the current government lacked an effective strategy for integration and recommended that…
Care sector ‘teetering on the edge of a cliff’
Labour MPs have hit out at the government in a parliamentary debate for not doing enough to tackle the ongoing crisis in social care. During a discussion on social care funding yesterday (Wednesday 18 October) Labour’s Barbara Keeley MP accused the government of failing people…
MPs demand care workers receive flu vaccine
Flu vaccination uptake among care workers looking after older people is at best around 25%, survey results have shown. A group of MPs said they were shocked at the low uptake in social care settings given that 2017/18 saw the worst flu outbreak for seven…
No-deal Brexit to worsen recruitment problems, says Care England
A no-deal Brexit risks worsening recruitment problems in the care sector, an inquiry has been told. In evidence submitted to the Health and Social Care Select Committee, Professor Martin Green, Care England chief executive, said he was worried a no-deal would ‘cut off’ or restrict…
Raise status of social care workforce, says committee
Action needs to be taken in raising the status of the social care workforce, so employees see the sector as an attractive career that is adequately paid. This is one of nine recommendations made by a group of Welsh politicians after they expressed concern over…
PRS confused over its target audience, says ARCO exec
The private rented sector (PRS) is being held back because it is confused about its target audience, Associated Retirement Community Operators (ARCO) executive director Michael Voges (pictured) has said. Speaking at the organisation’s network briefing, Voges said there needed to be clarity in what the…
