Care Home News
'Historic' drug hailed by dementia charity as 'new hope' that can slow Alzheimer's
29 Sep 2022
Alzheimer’s Research UK has called a new drug "historic" for its ability to slow the pace of brain decline caused by Alzheimer’s disease. The drug, lecanemab, can remove toxic beta-amyloid proteins that build.....
Care home bosses facing 'rocketing' food bills call on councils to pay 'true cost of care'
28 Sep 2022
Care homes are facing "frightening challenges" which include "rocketing" food prices and energy bills as well as insurance premiums 400 per cent higher than pre-pandemic levels, prompting care chiefs to demand local authorities deliver.....
Twin sisters separated after seeing each other daily for 90 years reunite in care home
28 Sep 2022
Twin sisters, who were separated after seeing each other every day for 90 years, have been reunited at a Northwich care home and are now determined they will never be “separated again”. Twins Winifred “Winnie”.....
Care home uses HUG dolls to soothe residents with dementia
27 Sep 2022
A care home based in Whitstable has introduced a new initiative to help alleviate the feelings of anxiety by replicating a "calm" and "soothing" hug for residents living with dementia. Bradbury Grange has brought.....
Calls for Liz Truss to deliver her promise of £13bn to social care and make it 'fighting fit'
23 Sep 2022
The Local Government Association (LGA) and the Independent Care Group (ICG) are calling on the Prime Minister to deliver the £13 billion pledged to tackle the crisis in adult social care as part of her leadership campaign. It.....
Coffey's plan to fix care crisis by recruiting a million volunteers is 'insult to skilled care workers'
22 Sep 2022
The health and social care minister's new plan for patients, which includes recruiting one million volunteers to help the NHS and social care, has been criticised as "an insult to skilled care workers". Our.....
Coffey's £500m fund to get people out of hospital into care 'step in right direction'
22 Sep 2022
Health and Social Care Secretary Thérèse Coffey has launched a £500m Adult Social Care Discharge Fund to free up hospital beds and help fix the social care crisis. There are currently 13,000 patients in hospitals.....
Care home chief who attended Queen's funeral says 'it was a long and emotional day'
21 Sep 2022
Major General Tim Tyler, chair of Royal Star & Garter, a charity which runs care homes for military veterans, has revealed what it was like attending the Queen’s funeral in Westminster Abbey. The Queen had.....
'Hardest working' Princess Anne visits Scottish care home, just days after death of The Queen
21 Sep 2022
Just days after the death of her mother Queen Elizabeth II, HRH the Princess Royal visited a care home to meet staff as well as a resident who had written to the late monarch urging her to visit the care home......
Two loved-up care home residents marry and say 'it's been a dream come true'
20 Sep 2022
A couple who fell in love in a care home in Surrey have tied the knot saying “it’s been a dream come true”. Simon Fisher, aged 55, proposed to Tina Dawn, aged 63, on Christmas Day, three years ago. The.....
Care home resident receives one of Queen's last 100th birthday cards
15 Sep 2022
A centenarian at a care home in Christchurch has received one of the last 100th birthday cards from the Queen, with the care home’s manager calling it a “special keepsake” to “treasure forever”. Mercia Crighton.....
Gwen aged 103 sheds 'tears of joy' as great-great-grandchild visits care home
15 Sep 2022
Five generations of women in the same family brought 'tears of joy' to 103-year-old Gwendoline thanks to a surprise visit to her care home from newborn great-great-granddaughter Harper. Gwendoline, who lives.....
Wiltshire care home staff dress in black for nine days to mourn The Queen
13 Sep 2022
Staff at a care home in Salisbury are wearing black for nine days of national mourning, following the death of Queen Elizabeth II. During the period of national mourning, the Queen will lie in state in Edinburgh.....
GPs told it's 'reasonable' to refuse to give autumn booster in care homes
13 Sep 2022
Doctors have been told by the British Medical Association (BMA) that it is 'entirely reasonable’ for them not to give the Autumn Covid booster vaccine in care homes because GPs ‘need to be appropriately resourced to do this workforce-intensive.....
Anchor expands to 127 care homes with two Yorkshire purchases
12 Sep 2022
Not-for-profit care provider Anchor Hanover Group is expanding to run 127 care homes, following its purchase of two more homes in Yorkshire. The provider of care and housing for over 55s has bought The Mill.....
Former care home resident with spinal injury sails solo around UK
12 Sep 2022
A wheelchair user with a spinal injury that led to him to live in a care home for seven years, is sailing solo around the UK and Ireland but admits planning it is a “whole new level of stupid”. British man.....
'Elizabeth the Great': Britain's oldest mourn UK's longest reigning monarch
09 Sep 2022
With the death of Queen Elizabeth II, described as “Elizabeth the Great”, came a wave of reflection and remembrance amongst Britain’s oldest who shared their own stories about the country’s longest reigning “marvellous” monarch......
Thérèse Coffey's plan to pay care homes to free up hospital beds 'smacks of short-term panic'
08 Sep 2022
With reports the new health and social care secretary is looking to pay care homes to take in discharged patients from hospital, a social care policy expert says most people "stuck" in hospital “don’t need residential care”. Officials.....
Scotland ditches face masks for care home staff, visitors and home care workers
08 Sep 2022
Scotland has ditched face masks for staff and visitors in its care homes as well as care workers giving home care The change in guidance by the Scottish government is due to a sharp drop in coronavirus infections.....
Liz Truss confirms she'll scrap ring-fenced health and social care levy
08 Sep 2022
Prime Minister Liz Truss said during her first PMQs clash with Labour leader Keir Starmer that she will be reversing the 1.25 per cent rise in National Insurance and is scrapping the Health and Social Care Levy. During.....
Health and care minister Thérèse Coffey to prioritise 'ambulances, backlogs, care, doctors'
07 Sep 2022
Thérèse Coffey has been appointed England’s third health and social care secretary in two months and has promised to bring an ‘ABCD’ focus to her new job by solving the problems of ambulances, backlogs, social care and patient appointments.....
Care chiefs urge new Prime Minister Liz Truss to be 'bold' and make care crisis top priority
06 Sep 2022
Liz Truss is the UK’s new Prime Minister and care leaders are demanding she be 'bold' by making the care crisis her top priority with enough funding, a care home energy price cap and a grant covering home care workers' fuel costs. After.....
Britain's new Prime Minister must end reliance on expensive agency staff says care chief
05 Sep 2022
Prime Minister Liz Truss must intervene to solve a care staffing crisis which has led to a sticking plaster reliance on agency staff who can be more expensive, inexperienced and unreliable, says Care England's chief executive. Her.....
Care home residents, care workers and 'housebound' invited for Covid autumn booster
05 Sep 2022
Millions of people including care home residents, those with weakened immune systems and care workers are being invited to receive the autumn Covid-19 booster vaccine from today. From 5 September, the NHS.....
Secret to a long life is a 'tot of whisky' says 102-year-old care home resident
02 Sep 2022
A care home resident who recently celebrated her 102nd birthday with friends and family says “a tot of whisky every morning” helps keep her going. Elizabeth 'Liz' Brown who lives at Briar Hill House was treated.....
Tips for home care providers on how to legitimately claim back VAT
01 Sep 2022
Anyone involved in running the books for a care business will know that fees for care services are VAT-exempt. This has been the case for almost 50 years when, in 1973, the UK joined the European Union. Care.....
Care home reviews site reveals UK's top care homes in 2022
31 Aug 2022
The UK’s leading care home reviews site has revealed the top care homes in 2022. The awards are based on reviews of the care home written by their residents, as well as their friends and relatives, with thousands.....
Care chief warns 683% price increase in fuel bills 'pose severe threat' to social care sector
30 Aug 2022
Care England has called for immediate government action to prevent a widespread catastrophe with providers facing a "staggering" 683 per cent increase in energy costs over the last 12 months. Figures released.....
Care home residents and staff in England with no Covid symptoms no longer have to test
25 Aug 2022
Regular asymptomatic Covid testing of staff and residents in care homes in England ceases from 31 August, as cases of the virus continue to fall. Staff, residents and patients in care homes, hospitals, hospices,.....
Care home owners in 'distress' as staff quit and rising costs threaten homes
22 Aug 2022
Care workers are quitting care home jobs in the South East faster than they can be replaced and care providers across the UK are thinking of shutting down because funding for local authority/NHS-funded residents has not kept up with.....