A US real estate investment trust has bought 24 newly built UK care homes and committed to 21 more in a £1.1bn sale and leaseback with LNT. Continue reading What A £1.1bn US Bet On 45 UK Care Homes Means For Providers
Kawasaki Heavy Industries has unveiled a dog-shaped robot that talks, fetches and alerts carers to falls. Continue reading Kawasaki’s Robot Dog That Fetches Your Phone and Alerts Carers Raises Questions for Care
Cera says at least 1,000 people in England now use its companion robots, and it claims large gains in productivity. Behind the figures sits an older argument about whether technology frees carers to care or quietly replaces them, and the evidence is still thin. Continue reading Companion Robots Are Entering British Care
Forty-four affordable homes, including a 24-flat extra care facility, have opened on a site in Lochgelly that stood empty for seven years. The completion closes out the latest phase of Fife Council’s Affordable Housing Programme and lands directly in the middle of a national argument about whether Scotland is building extra care housing fast enough to meet demand.
Continue reading Fife Council Opens 24-Flat Extra Care Facility On Long-Vacant Lochgelly Site
A Welsh Government capital fund worth up to £250,000 per project has opened its doors to NHS health boards and third sector care organisations, alongside universities and private business. With applications closing on 25 September, providers and commissioners across Wales have a narrow window to secure funding for equipment that current budgets rarely stretch to cover. Continue reading Welsh Government Opens £250,000 Equipment Fund to NHS Health Boards and Care Bodies
Port Manor Care Home in Seaford has begun using 360-degree virtual reality headsets within its new Memory Lane Community, part of a growing move to bring reminiscence-based technology into specialist dementia care. Continue reading Inside the VR Headsets Being Trialled in a Sussex Dementia Care Setting
Leicestershire Partnership Trust has told the Lampard Inquiry why it abandoned a bedroom monitoring system that a neighbouring trust is expanding across every inpatient unit. Continue reading Bereaved Families Take On Oxevision as NHS Adoption Figures Are Disputed
Home and Community Care Ireland has asked its government for £85 million to expand support hours, fund carer mileage, and close a disability care gap. Continue reading Irish Home Care Group’s £85m Ask Exposes a Workforce Problem the UK Hasn’t Solved Either
The government has set out a decade-long capital strategy that will lift the NHS capital budget to £15bn by 2029/30, with billions earmarked for crumbling estates, RAAC removal and 250 neighbourhood health centres.
Continue reading NHS £15bn Capital Plan Targets Estate Repairs and Neighbourhood Health Hubs
A Canadian technology company has launched a passive, whole-home monitoring system designed to give home care agencies visibility into what happens between scheduled visits without cameras, microphones, or wearable devices Continue reading Home Care Agencies Gain Round-the-Clock Activity Insights Without Cameras or Wearables
