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Glenholme Healthcare Group moves into elderly care

Glenholme Healthcare Group is planning to build a ‘multi-million pound’ residential care facility as part of a new move into the elderly care market. The learning...

New developments August/September 2011

Priory Group has opened Priory Pines House near Darlington in County Durham, a facility providing care, education and therapy for boys and girls who have complex psychological difficulties, sexually inappropriate behaviour and associated learning requirements. Based at the Priory Middleton St George hospital, the service will accept up to 16 young people aged between seven and 19 from across the UK requiring this very specialist type of care. Eight places are available on 52-week a year residential basis while the other eight are daycare/education or respite only. Priory is also investing around £1m in educational facilities at a second North East site. Hurworth House, Darlington, will provide day school facilities for up to 35 young people with special educational needs and will open later in the year.

Precept falls far short of NLW costs – ADASS

Funds raised from the introduction of the social care precept have failed to cover the cost of implementing the National Living Wage (NLW), the...

Octopus Healthcare fund reaches £85m

Octopus Healthcare’s open-ended UK healthcare real estate fund, which focuses on UK elderly care homes, has raised £85m. Originally the MedicX Healthfund, the investment vehicle...

New developments – October 2011

Social housing provider, bpha, has announced the completion of a £4.8m extra care housing scheme for elderly and disabled people in Trowbridge, Wiltshire. Florence Court, which will be managed by the Orders of St John Care Trust, has 40, two bedroom extra care flats for the elderly, two, three bedroom supported living bungalows for people with learning disabilities, plus social, recreation and medical treatment facilities. The scheme, which was constructed by Leadbitter Group, replaces a Wiltshire council hostel which had been on the site since the 1960s.

Gracewell Healthcare in Newbury

Care home developer Hamberley has unveiled the latest of ten homes it is building for Gracewell Healthcare. Built on the site of a former guest...

CQC appoints chief operating officer

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has appointed Kirsty Shaw as its chief operating officer. Shaw will lead on the regulator's corporate and customer-facing functions, including...

New developments December 2011

Bupa Care Homes has released plans for a new £7m nursing and dementia care home in Glasgow. The purpose-built facility will have 64-beds to care for people with general nursing needs as well as providing specialist care for people living with dementia. When it opens in 2013, the care home is expected to form part of a larger development that includes residential housing, a primary school and a community college.

£10m home opens in Somerset

Construction work on a £10m care home in Bridgwater, Somerset for N. Notaro Homes Limited has been completed. The care home comprises 66 end-suite...

High Court dismisses Ideal Carehomes’ challenge to publication of inspection report

The High Court has dismissed an injunction application from Ideal Carehomes, to prevent the Care Quality Commission (CCQ) publishing a report looking into one...