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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...

WCS Care

Not-for-profit provider WCS Care will open a new care home in Kenilworth for people with dementia in December. The £10.5m Castle Brook home will offer...

WCS Care

Not-for-profit provider WCS Care will open a new care home in Kenilworth for people with dementia in December. The £10.5m Castle Brook home will offer...

Restful Homes

Planning permission has been granted to Restful Homes Group to construct a 70-bed care home in Sherbourne, Dorset. Designed in an Arts and Crafts style,...

New developments – July 2016

The Abbeyfield Society is to open a 60-bed care home in Winnersh near Reading this month. Built by Castleoak, the specialist dementia home claims...

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...

New Developments – June 2016

LNT Care Developments has received planning permission to build two 64-bed care homes. The first in Welwyn Garden City will be owned and operated...

New developments

Berkley Care Group is in the process of opening four new homes to bring its total bed number to 335. Last month it opened a £7.8m high-end care home which had been converted from a disused office block. The 66-bed Shinfield View is only available to self-paying residents. This month it is due to open a 75-bed home in Oxford set in 2.5acres of wooded valley. The £9m Cumnor Hill House will provide nursing, residential and dementia care. In June, a £6.6m home is due to open in Hillingdon, London, offering 60-beds for private paying residents and in July the £7.8m Leycester House in Warwick offering 78 beds will open. Berkley Care Group has a further three homes in the pipeline offering a total of 200 new places.

Construction work has started on an £80m extra care project that is being developed...

Castleoak has completed a £40m project with The Fremantle Trust and Buckinghamshire county council to improve the quality of accommodation for older people and adults with learning disabilities across the county. Seven old care homes were redeveloped and a new home built, creating 600 new bed spaces in the homes, which typically cater for 60 to 90 people.

New developments – June

Camino Healthcare has opened a new specialist care home in Tipton, West Midlands. Oak House will offer a 24-hour nursing service for adults with mental health problems and/or a learning disability within two six-bed units. The facility also has two large bedsits for very challenging residents who might need one-to-one care.