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Wales: Care home operators face ‘mounting financial pressures’

Care home providers have been ‘badly let down’ during the coronavirus crisis and are facing ‘mounting financial pressures’ that could result in closures. The Senedd...

Dementia charities call for an end to ‘enforced separation’

Charities have written to the Health and Social Care Secretary of State Matt Hancock requesting relatives of people with dementia receive ‘key worker’ status...

Growing presence in community-based care helps drive performance at Voyage

Voyage Care has posted rising revenue and EBITDA, as it grows its presence in community-based provision. Its figures for the year ended 31 March 2020,...

Nigel Sibley leaves LifeCare Residences

Chief executive of LifeCare Residences Nigel Sibley has left the business. The luxury retirement villages operator, which has sites in London, Hampshire and Dorset in...

Savista Developments appoints Claire Johnsen as head of innovation

Claire Johnsen has been appointed as head of innovation at care home construction company Savista Developments. Johnsen, who previously worked as a senior advisor for...

Social care sector faces a ‘staffing blackhole’

Social care faces a ‘staffing blackhole’ if temporary arrangements are not introduced to manage the initial impact of the government’s Immigration Bill. The warning comes...

PM under fire over care home comments

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has come under criticism for accusing care homes of not properly following procedures during the coronavirus crisis. During an interview yesterday,...

Video: Simon Parker speaks to Robert Kilgour

In this episode Simon Parker, founder of the care management consultancy SP&P, speaks to Robert Kilgour, executive chairman of Renaissance Care. As reported last week,...

Target Healthcare buys £15m care home

Investor Target Healthcare REIT has let a newly developed care home to Ideal Carehomes, which it bought for £15m. The 66-bed property in Bicester, Oxfordshire,...

Regular testing to be rolled out in care homes

Staff and residents in care homes for over 65s and those with dementia will receive regular coronavirus tests from next week. Workers will be tested...