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Guidance launched to help providers deal with complaints better

An adult social care guide has been published to help providers and councils implement best practice when receiving and dealing with comments, complaints and...

Nursing care standard rises 4.7%

The Department of Health and Social Care has increased the NHS-funded nursing care standard weekly rate per patient by 4.7% from £158.16 to £165.56...

Lilli secures £8.2m to help power growth

Lilli has raised £8.2m in Series A financing to help scale up across the public and private health and care sectors. The funding, which was...

Managing and supporting care sector workforces 

Jodie Sinclair, partner at Bevan Brittan, examines how care providers can ensure they are supporting their staff in the best way possible. Throughout the Covid-19...

Number of independent care sector jobs grows by 43,000

The number of roles in the independent care sector rose by 43,000 between 2019/20 and 2020/21 to 1.32 million, representing growth of 3.4%. The rate...

Kingsley begins construction work on Bedford nursing home

Kingsley Healthcare has started building a nursing home in the centre of Bedford, Bedfordshire. Sycamore Heights Nursing Home, designed by architects Condy Lofthouse and being...

Hancock told to ‘grasp the social care challenge’

NHS Confederation leaders have written to new health and social care secretary Matt Hancock urging him to create integrated services as well as introduce...

Dr Chai Patel to retire as chairman of HC-One

Dr Chai Patel will retire as chairman of care home provider HC-One at the end of October. Patel, who will continue to be an active...

SweetTree Home Care Services promotes Denis Repard to CEO

SweetTree Home Care Services has promoted Denis Repard to the role of chief executive officer. He began at the provider as the special projects director...

Octopus Real Estate appoints director of origination

Octopus Real Estate has strengthened its care home fund management team by recruiting Chris Wishart as director of origination. He will take a lead role...