CQC needs more informal engagement with providers, report says
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) should focus less on inspections and ratings and engage more informally with providers to drive improvements, a King’s Fund...
New Care’s Guiseley Manor officially opens
New Care’s second property in Yorkshire - £12m Guiseley Manor – has been officially opened.
The home complements the provider’s first care facility in the...
Regulator warns of growing ‘care injustice’
A ‘growing care injustice’ could take shape unless access and quality improves in the country, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has warned.
Its annual state...
Cera Care rolls out AI tech to help prevent falls
Cera Care is rolling out its AI technology that can predict falls a week before they happen.
Its AI identifies people at risk of a...
Most people not planning how they will fund their care
Roughly half of English adults do not know what ‘social care’ means and have not planned how they will pay for their care when...
Amanda Wright-Kluger joins Bevan Brittan
Amanda Wright-Kluger has become the second partner in as many months to join Bevan Brittan’s health and care – regulatory team.
Wright-Kluger has experience of...
Four days a week
Alistair Kleebauer explores the impact of long working hours
To a stressed care worker the idea might be laughable, but if the influential economist John...
Chair of older people’s housing taskforce outlines proposals under review
An overarching regulatory framework related to consumer protection for older people’s retirement housing is one of the interim recommendations under review by a taskforce.
The...
ICG chair to write to all MPs over care crisis
The chair of the Independent Care Group (ICG) plans to write to all 650 MPs calling for emergency measures to end the care crisis...
Target Healthcare tenants shun ‘fill at any cost’ approach
Target Healthcare REIT has reported a reversal of fortunes between care homes focused on private clients versus those with more local authority-funded residents.
The investor...