Sadly, the care home profession is too often in the media for the wrong reasons. Earlier this year, many reported on an “alarming rise in reports of care home abuse”. Stories such as these often overshadow much of the excellent ...

A Northamptonshire development site with planning consent for construction of a 72-bed care home is being brought to market by national property consultancy Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH). LSH has been instructed to commence marketing the 2.17-acre greenfield site at Long ...

With nearly forty years experience in the discreet sale of Care Homes nationwide, principal directors Grayson and Dawn Taylor offer a service which is second to none in the Care sector. Their proven track record is confirmed by numerous client ...

Healthcare workers – including nurses, ambulance staff, dentists and pharmacists to name but a few – represent a group of employees who are eligible to claim extra tax relief for certain expenses they pay as part of their job. Here’s ...

Insurance, overall, has a poor reputation. Whether people perceive that they pay large premiums and get nothing back from them, or that greedy insurers do their best to avoid claims or minimise payments wherever possible. I would suggest that this ...

The Care organisations have been under great pressure in recent years, from facing the uncertainty that goes with Brexit to a variety of NHS cuts, hoping to weather the storm awaiting better times. A key issue has always been recruitment ...

The care sector skills shortage has been spoken about for some time. Employers are finding it increasingly hard to retain the best people. Coupled with long onboarding times this can cause owners and managers real resourcing problems. With staff turnover ...

According to the CQC, a survey which polled over 1,000 adults who were responsible for choosing care either for themselves or a loved one over the last three years, highlighted that 70% of people found it more stressful than choosing ...

In May this year, former Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, called for a legal requirement for every care home in Britain to be fitted with surveillance cameras to protect residents. He suggested that: “Requiring the public parts of care homes to ...

By Laura Hannah, associate solicitor at national law firm Stephensons It was recently reported that an 82-year-old woman was permitted to register as a manager of a 25 bed care home for elderly residents by the Care Quality Commission (‘CQC’) ...