Care Home News
Care workers moving to the NHS for better pay, says care home director
29 Oct 2021
Care home workers are leaving their jobs to join the NHS for higher wages, the owner of six care homes in the West Midlands has said. Geoff Butcher, director of Blackadder Corporate, which runs six homes.....
Budget: Social care 'left out in the cold' as emergency cash plea to Chancellor ignored
27 Oct 2021
Contrary to the care sector’s hopes of money for social care in Chancellor Rishi Sunak's Budget and Spending Review, his speech indicated a cold winter lay ahead for care providers facing staff shortages. Days.....
Care home worker 'heartbroken' to end 14 year career due to Covid jab rule
26 Oct 2021
A care home worker said she is "heartbroken" about having to leave a 14 year career in care because she refused to get vaccinated for Covid-19. The government has said all care home workers must be double.....
Musicians prescribed for care home residents with dementia
25 Oct 2021
Visits from musicians are being prescribed for people with dementia in care homes run by Hallmark Care Homes. The therapeutic musical sessions have been designed to reduce residents' social isolation,.....
Council gives care homes £100 per bed to tackle staff shortages
25 Oct 2021
Essex County Council is providing emergency funding of £2.5 million to address care sector staff shortages by giving £100 for every care home bed it commissions. As some care home managers fear they will.....
Social care risks becoming 'tsunami of unmet need' if vacancies rise further, warns CQC
22 Oct 2021
Care providers are facing a staffing crisis as recruitment and staff retention is fast becoming a "serious and deteriorating" situation with "increasing numbers" of people unable to access care, the care regulator has warned. In.....
Recruitment crisis sees government give £162.5m to attract care workers
22 Oct 2021
Care homes and home care providers are being given £162.5m by the government to help hire tens of thousands of care workers in response to the sector's recruitment crisis. The new workforce retention and.....
Booster vaccine rollout too slow putting care homes 'at risk' from Covid once again, warns care leader
21 Oct 2021
The Independent Care Group (ICG) is calling on the government to speed up the Covid-19 booster vaccine to care home residents and care workers in fear a surge in infection rates will put their settings at risk “once again” this winter. The.....
Antiviral drugs could cut Covid's severity for those with weak immune systems
21 Oct 2021
A new antiviral medicine that can half the risk of death and hospitalisation from Covid-19 has been bought by the government to help protect older people and immunocompromised people. Some 480,000 courses.....
Care worker shortage means thousands of people missing out on care
20 Oct 2021
More than two thirds (67 per cent) of registered managers of care services have reported they have limited or stopped admissions of any new residents into care homes or refused new requests for domiciliary care because they do not.....
Mandatory Covid vaccine for care workers may be the 'straw that breaks the camel's back'
20 Oct 2021
Care England is urging the government to “listen to the sector” to stop the "disruption" to the delivery of care services and warns the November 11 deadline for mandatory vaccination is not enough time for providers working against.....
Almost 5 million people at higher risk from Covid wait for booster jab
20 Oct 2021
Almost 5 million (4.8 million) eligible people in England who had their second Covid vaccine at least six months ago are still waiting for a booster jab to protect them this winter- including 3.3 million people aged over 60. NHS.....
Family of WWII soldier to walk 100 miles to raise funds for care home
19 Oct 2021
The family of a care home resident and WWII veteran are aiming to walk 100 miles in 10 days to raise money for the care home which cared for her father in the final years of his life. Kay Sabell and her husband.....
Knight Frank Luxury Care Home Awards winners announced
19 Oct 2021
Knight Frank has revealed the winners of the sixth edition of its UK Luxury Care Home Awards 2022. Knight Frank’s 2022 Luxury Care Home Guide lists the UK’s top 100 luxury care homes and recognises three.....
Resistance training can 'reduce and reverse' elderly's frailty says academic
19 Oct 2021
The strength of older people can be boosted by resistance training which can “reduce and reverse” their frailty, an academic at University of Stirling has found. A study by the Scottish university has led.....
Legal action begins against government over 'failure to protect care home residents' from Covid-19
18 Oct 2021
Dr Cathy Gardner and Fay Harris, whose fathers died of Covid-19 in care homes during the pandemic, are to begin their landmark legal action against the government, Public Health England and NHS England over their handling of the coronavirus.....
Care worker and eco-scientist face Home Office deportation
18 Oct 2021
A leading renewable energy scientist and a care worker, who are married with three children, are facing deportation to Sri Lanka where the academic escaped torture. Scientist Dr Nadarajah Muhunthan was.....
A third of care home residents were self-funders before pandemic, ONS reveals
15 Oct 2021
Some 37 per cent of care home residents were paying for their own care before the pandemic, while the majority (63 per cent) were state-funded, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). As.....
Social care needs to be funded by government, 'not by massively hiking council tax'
15 Oct 2021
Social care in England needs an urgent injection of funding from the government, says Age UK, not a hike in council tax which will lead to hugely inflated council tax bills in some areas and a postcode lottery of care. Consistent.....
Care home residents who met at school celebrate 70th wedding anniversary
14 Oct 2021
Two residents at a care home in Kent, who met aged 16, have celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary by sitting down to afternoon tea. Ray and Josephine Beven who live at Sunrise at Frognal care home, met.....
Demand for home care has risen during pandemic, with workforce growing by nearly 10%
13 Oct 2021
Demand for home care has grown during the pandemic, with around 40,000 home care workers joining the workforce. During the same period from 2019/2020 to 2020/2021, the care home workforce has managed to stay.....
Tips on combatting malnutrition in people with dementia
13 Oct 2021
Malnutrition is a major public health issue costing the NHS over £19billion per year in England alone, according to the British Dietetic Association. There are approximately three million people in the UK.....
Care home gets cat named Blue after resident keeps calling for a pet cat she used to have
13 Oct 2021
A cat has joined a care home in Cambridge after a resident kept looking out of the window and calling for a pet cat she used to have. Fitzwilliam House Care Home now has a feline friend called Blue who is.....
Transferring Covid patients to care homes led to 'thousands' of avoidable deaths, say MPs
12 Oct 2021
MPs have hailed the Covid vaccine programme as one of the 'most effective initiatives in UK history', but have highlighted the failure of the government and the NHS to recognise the 'significant risks to the social care sector at.....
Care home provider in north of England rewards staff with 5% pay rise for work during pandemic
11 Oct 2021
Care home provider, Ideal Carehomes, has given all its hourly paid staff a five per cent pay rise to recognise their hard work during the pandemic. The care provider, which runs 28 care homes across the.....
Residents lose home and staff face redundancy as 'invest in rooms' care home shuts down
08 Oct 2021
27 residents must move out of their care home by 15 October while 50 workers face losing their jobs, after the Northern Ireland setting was forced to close because of concerns about an ‘invest in rooms’ scheme......
Care home manager to 'bring change' as director at Institute of Health and Social Care Management
07 Oct 2021
Care home manager Adam Purnell is leaving his job to become the new director of social care at the Institute of Health and Social Care Management (IHSCM). Mr Purnell has regularly been seen on TV news programmes.....
Top orchestra performs free live-streamed concert for UK care homes
07 Oct 2021
The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is performing for all care home residents across the UK in a free live-streamed concert at 7.30pm tonight. Care home manager Geoff Crocker helped pay for the concert for.....
PM says he has 'the guts' to tackle big issues like social care
06 Oct 2021
Banging his fists on the lectern, Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivered his trademark punchy prose to the party faithful at the Conservative Party conference by promising to “get social care done” and address problems “no government.....
Rickshaw rides bring care home elderly outdoors after 'hardship of lockdown'
05 Oct 2021
Electric-assisted rickshaws have brought the elderly out of their care homes again to revel in the outdoors thanks to the return of Cycling Without Age Rides. Run by York Bike Belles, the free volunteer-run.....