Podcast: Adam Carter speaks to Simon Harrison

In this episode of The Wine Cellar Sessions, Adam Carter, managing director at Carter Schwartz, speaks to former care sector executive Simon Harrison. Over a...

Commissioner calls for care home visits to continue

Safe care home visits should continue despite further lockdown restrictions being put in place. The Older People’s Commissioner for Wales, Heléna Herklots, has published...
Care Inspectorate chief executive Peter Macleod

Covid-19 exposes funding issues for care at home

Challenges faced by care at home and housing support services during the Covid-19 pandemic have ‘further exposed’ funding issues in the sector. The Care...

Mears Group completes exit from domiciliary care

Mears Group has completed its exit from domiciliary care with the disposal of its Scotland operations. Cera Care, which also acquired Mears’s England and Wales...

Staff capacity issues need addressing, urges taskforce

A short-term workforce planning group should be set up to address care sector staff capacity issues that are likely to arise over the next...

Aedifica continues investment drive with £14.5m deal

Care home developer Hamberley Development has agreed a forward commitment to sell its next property to European Healthcare REIT Aedifica for £14.5m. The forward purchase...

Social care ‘policy failure’ needs addressing, says former minister

Failure to reform social care has been one of the country’s biggest failures ‘in our lifetimes’, former pensions minister Baroness Ros Altmann has said. Addressing...

Schroders and Civitas raise £100m for specialist homes

Schroder Real Estate in partnership with Civitas Investment Management (CIM) have reached a second closing on their private social supported housing fund, raising £100m...

Podcast: Adam Carter speaks to Nick Yarrow

In this episode of The Wine Cellar Sessions, Adam Carter, managing director of Carter Schwartz, speaks to Berkeley Home Health chief executive Nick Yarrow. They...

CQC take action after Cygnet alerts it to alleged abuse at Essex hospital

The CQC is taking enforcement action against a Cygnet Health Care hospital in Essex after the mental health provider alerted it to alleged abuse...