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Recruitment and staff retention ‘serious and deteriorating’, says CQC

Recruitment and staff retention continue to be severe problems for adult social care, with the situation ‘serious and deteriorating’, the regulator has said. It has...

Valuation of CareTech’s property portfolio reaches £930m

CareTech’s property portfolio has been valued at £930m, an increase of 20% since its last estimate in September 2018 (£774m). The valuation of 407 freehold...

Investing in care workforce becoming ‘ever more urgent’

Extra funds will be provided for social care to improve hospital patient discharges, expand community services and reduce re-admissions in an effort to ease...

Impact Healthcare buys care home for £5.8m

Impact Healthcare REIT has bought a purpose-built care home on the southwest coast for £5.8m. The 83-bed property will be operated by one of its...

Hamberley to build rehabilitation centre and care home

Hamberley Development has completed a deal to acquire land in Southampton, Hampshire, to build a neurological rehabilitation centre and an 80-bed care home. The Inspire...

Organisations urge government to act over ‘staffing crisis’

The National Care Forum (NCF) and Unison have written to the health and social care secretary calling for action over the staffing crisis in...

Target Healthcare’s tenants ‘positive’ as occupancy grows

Tenants of Target Healthcare REIT are reporting a ‘positive outlook’, with occupancies within care homes growing towards ‘normalised levels’. Occupancy had been ‘depressed’ over the...

Westgate Healthcare opens redeveloped care home

Westgate Healthcare has opened Chestnut Manor Care Home in Wanstead, East London, after a redevelopment project. The property, the group’s seventh care and nursing home,...

Providers making ‘difficult decisions’ about who they can support

Two-thirds of registered managers (67%) have either limited or stopped admissions of any new people into care homes or refused to take on requests...

Inspired Villages purchases site for net-zero carbon community

Inspired Villages has purchased a site in Hampshire with regional developer Highwood Group to deliver a net-zero carbon community for over 65s. The nine-acre site...