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Two thirds of over 75s are delaying financial planning

More than two in three over 75s are delaying making financial plans for residential care until the government has introduced reforms to the social...
Care Inspectorate chief executive Peter Macleod

Almost half of care services face issues filling staff vacancies

Almost half of care services with staff vacancies reported having problems filling them, research has revealed.  In the past year, 38% of services reported having...

L&G partners university to launch care research centre

Legal & General is partnering with the University of Edinburgh to set up an Advanced Care Research Centre (ACRC), which is designed to improve...
Birds-eye view of an old building

CQC wrong not to publish 2015 Whorlton Hall report, says review

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) was wrong not to publish the 2015 inspection report of Whorlton Hall, four years before a BBC Panorama investigation,...

Concern grows as number of CQC reports with duplicated material rises

Care England has expressed concern over the regulator duplicating material used in inspection reports, arguing operators expect accuracy considering the amounts of money they...

Emergency hospital admissions for people with dementia up 35%

Emergency hospital admissions for people with dementia has increased by more than a third in five years, research has found, with a lack of...
Roehampton Hospital, Priory

Priory invests £1m in new mental health ward for young people

A new ward for children and adolescents with mental health issues has opened at Priory’s Roehampton Hospital in south-west London.  The ward, which follows an...

€6.5bn invested in older people’s care assets, says Knight Frank report

The European healthcare market continues to attract investment, with capital targeting the sector having more than doubled since 2015 to €6.5bn (£5.5bn) annually, according...

Minimum price for homecare rises 9.3%

The new minimum price for homecare has been set at £20.69 per hour from 1 April, when the UK’s statutory national living wage (NLW)...

Increased confidence in UK care market, report predicts

Care home developments and investment activity will remain active this year, with more M&A deals likely once uncertainty over Brexit is resolved, Christie &...