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...

Hallmark Foundation calls for more accurate monitoring of unmet need

An Office for Care and Ageing Well should be created to monitor and report unmet needs and promote sustainable ways to deliver better care...

Skills for Care promotes student nursing placements within sector

Skills for Care has launched guidance to support and promote student nursing placements within social care. Funded by Health Education England, it is aimed at...