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CQC removes Optima Care locations from registration
Optima Care Ltd is no longer providing regulatory care to service users following action from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
The regulator has published findings...
A personal choice
Care home workers must be fully vaccinated from Covid-19 by 11 November. Alistair Kleebauer examines some of the debate around mandatory vaccines
Care providers, trade...
Rock and a hard place?
Regulations requiring compulsory Covid-19 vaccination of care home workers and others entering care settings will come into force next week. Duncan Astill, regulatory partner...
New Directions expands training and recruitment offering
New Directions Health and Social Care has expanded its services to offer short and long-term nursing placements and permanent positions in private healthcare.
A service...
Care operators reporting recovery with trend set to continue, says report
Care home operators are set to see occupancy rates slowly rise and profits steady as the impacts of the pandemic recede and demand for...
ARCO aims for more clarity with ‘integrated retirement communities’
Associated Retirement Community Operators (ARCO) has adopted a new term to describe housing with care’s operational model.
Responding to research, the UK national body will...
Government launches latest recruitment campaign
The government has launched its recruitment campaign encouraging people to follow a career in adult social care.
‘Made with Care’ will run across broadcast and...
Up to a quarter of homecare workforce could be lost, survey reveals
Over a third of domiciliary care providers believe they would lose between 0-24% of their workforce if vaccination becomes a condition of deployment, according...
Work on £15m dementia care home Vida Court completes
Construction work has completed on Vida Court, a 100-bed dementia care home in Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
The property has been built on behalf of provider Vida...
Integrated technological approaches needed in housing and care, report urges
Technology and digital infrastructure that support future care needs must be built into all new housing, a report has urged.
Following a six-month inquiry by...
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