Starting on Thursday, February 8th 2024, the recently awarded five-year contract is a direct response to input from patients and staff. Additionally, this initiative is set to generate 50 new jobs within the county while enhancing the catering service for both staff and inpatients.

ISS will be hiring 50 food hosts, a new role at KMPT, who will be responsible for serving food and assisting patients with placing orders and meal planning on the Trust's wards in Margate, Canterbury, Maidstone, and Dartford.

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Rylands Nursing and Residential Care Home in Shropshire is for sale through Christie & Co with an asking price of £1.95m.

Located in the leafy Shropshire town of Newport, Rylands Nursing and Residential Care Home is a ‘Good’ rated business registered to care for up to 44 residents. It occupies an impressive converted and extended, three-storey, nineteenth-century building with 39 bedrooms including two companion rooms.

The care home is currently operated through a management company, so presents a good opportunity for an experienced operator or small regional group to add to its portfolio.

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Leading Scottish care provider, Meallmore Ltd, has announced its new senior team, as Cillian Hennessey takes over as managing director.

Cillian takes over the top job from Gerry Hennessey, who has retired from his role after 35 years. Gerry and his brother Aidan were founding directors when Meallmore was established in 1987. The company has grown steadily and has successfully retained its original family business values. Gerry will remain as chairman for Meallmore, while Cillian takes over the running of operations.

Cillian joined the family business in 2010 as area manager after working as an investment surveyor.

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A 68-bed care home development scheme in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, from by market-leading developer, Frontier Estates, has been sold to family-run care provider, Boutique Care.

The Burgess Hill schem will join the group's three exceptional care homes in Newmarket, Shepperton, and Broadstairs.

The site extends to 1.57 acres and is located to the south of Kingsway in the popular West Sussex town of Burgess Hill. The proposed scheme comprises a 68-bed care home over three-storey accommodation.

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Anchor, England’s largest not-for-profit provider of care and housing for older people, has completed its deal to acquire the entire share capital of Halcyon Care Homes.

The 11 purpose-built residential care homes, one of which is currently in development, are located in the East Midlands and the South of England - and brings the total number of care homes operated by Anchor to 125.

The acquisition is a key part of Anchor’s Business Plan to have more and better homes where people love living in later life.

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Anchor, England’s largest not-for-profit provider of care and housing for older people, announces further expansion of its care home portfolio.

Anchor has exchanged contracts to expand further its care home business - with the acquisition from Hadrian Healthcare of two new freehold residential care homes in Yorkshire.

The two exceptionally high-quality, purpose-built homes in Skipton and Roundhay, Leeds, are currently under construction and are due to become operational in April 2023 and June 2024 respectively.

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Family-run Stonehaven Care Group, one of the largest care home operators in Devon, has acquired Woodhayes nursing home in Exeter.

Woodhayes is a reputable nursing home set in a Grade II Listed, Victorian property, formed from three linked and extended buildings.

The home is registered with the CQC to provide care for up to 27 clients and is run by a registered manager with a full staff team.

Woodhayes has been owned and operated by registered charity.

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Bristol-based group, Cedar Care Homes has acquired Hill House Care Home near Malmesbury in Wiltshire through Christie & Co, bringing the portfolio to 16 sites.

When the previous owners purchased Hill House Care Home via Christie & Co in 2008, it was trading as a boutique residential care home registered for 19, operating from a beautiful nineteenth-century property.

The pair have since obtained planning for a state-of-the-art, extension and developed a 42-bed purpose-built wing, which sits alongside the original period property on over 11 acres of beautiful grounds.

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Four Seasons Health Care Group has instructed Christie & Co to sell a portfolio of 111 freehold care homes located across England, Scotland and Jersey, all trading under either the Four Seasons Health Care Group or Brighterkind brands.

With a total of 6,054 bedrooms, this portfolio is well specified, with the majority of homes comprising over 40 spacious bedrooms, 80% of which have en-suite provision.

A significant proportion of the homes for sale are purpose-built or have purpose-built extensions.

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There are approximately 564,000 care home beds in the UK (462 in England, 46k in Scotland, 26k in Wales and 16k in Northern Ireland) spread across 17,600 homes. Residential homes make up 70% of the stock vs. 30% residential. The UK care home market is highly fragmented. There are roughly 5,500 different care operators in the UK. 84% of care homes are privately run, a slight increase from the 82% in 2015. 13% are run by charities, such as MHA and 3% by local councils. Despite the fragmentation there are 5 providers (largely Private Equity owned) that own a significant share of the market. Known as the 'Big Five', they are: HC-One - the newsest group, founded in 2011, has 324 care homes with 14.

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Fairleigh House care home in Swansea, South Wales, has been sold via Christie & Co for an undisclosed price.

For the last 30 years, Fairleigh House has been a family-run business offering residential care for up to 20 people with dementia. The home is arranged in a substantial, attractive period property in Sketty, an affluent and desirable suburb of Swansea.

Since it was established, Fairleigh House has been owned by Linda Jones who recently decided to sell to pursue a well-earned retirement.

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Barchester Healthcare has acquired an Aspire LPP best-in-class care home development site in Tenterden, Kent, via Christie & Co.

Aspire LPP achieved planning consent for this 64-bed care home development following a proactive planning process with the local council resulting in a high-class contemporary design for the care home which will meet the demands of the local area.

The consented care home will benefit from en suite wet rooms to all bedrooms, café, hair salon, activity room, cinema.

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Meallmore Ltd has announced 66 new positions within the company as part of the Kickstart Scheme.

In a bid to help young people into work, the care home provider has announced the positions are open for 24 out of their 26 homes across Scotland.

The successful applicants will work for six months on a fixed term contract for a maximum of 25 hours per week. During this time the new employees will have the opportunity to work across catering, hospitality, administration and care.

The Kickstart Scheme is open to people aged 16-24 who are currently claiming Universal Credit.

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Caterlyst Insights looks into the future for the hospitals in the UK: • 40 new hospitals being built by 2030 will include 21-st century catering facilities including restaurants, central kitchens, patient dining spaces and ward kitchens • Changes in hospital menus and production to reduce waste, and air miles • An increased focus on catering for outpatients • Conversion of locally managed catering to the centralised buying power of foodbuy • Healthier more nutritious meal options for patients, visitors and staff • A growth in self-pay private acute medical care driven by long NHS waiting lists and a greater awareness of available private services. (image: Medirest)

NHS and private hospitals that offer overnight accommodation: • Number of sites: 1,512 • Number of Trusts: 135 (acute) • Market value: £643m • Number of meals served: 280 million • Number of beds: 191,437 • Number of private hospital sites: 221 • Number of private hospital beds: 10,000 (5% of all beds) (source: Caterlyst, video still: County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust)

Care home giant, Barchester Healthcare has acquired a site formerly occupied by The Old Hall care home in Send, Surrey, via Christie & Co, for an undisclosed sum.

The Old Hall care home was previously owned by The Geoghegan Group, which purchased it as a trading care home registered for 39 service users through Christie & Co in 1997.

The company obtained planning permission to demolish the property and build a luxury care home for 60 service users. In March 2021, the business ceased trading and the site was demolished.

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Kingdom Homes, a portfolio of 12 care homes in Fife, Scotland, has been sold through Christie & Co.

The portfolio was sold for £37.5m, with a potential deferred payment of up to £2.5m subject to the future performance of the homes.

The 12 Fife-based homes, which comprise 480 beds, were previously owned by Colin and Margaret Smart who made the decision to sell in order to retire from the care industry and focus on their hotel business.

With backing from investor.

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Specialist business property adviser, Christie & Co, reports a noticeable increase in appetite for closed care homes in the Midlands region. Tamara Gee, Associate Director - Healthcare at Christie & Co, comments, “A clear increase in appetite for closed, vacant care homes in the Midlands has sparked a rise in the number of offers received. Due to the current demand, in some instances, price-per-bed numbers are stronger than they were pre-pandemic which is positive for those looking to sell.” Recent deals, such as the sale of closed residential care home, Haversham House, in Stoke-on-Trent and closed former nursing home, Cloverfields, in Shropshire illustrate this demand. The former Haversham House property is a 1990s purpose-built.

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State-of-the-art care home, Greenan Manor, operated by Scottish care home provider, Meallmore, has been officially opened by Siobhian Brown MSP.

Greenan Manor provides excellent standards of care for its residents, including those living with dementia. It has been expertly designed and features 52 fully furnished ensuite bedrooms.

The spacious dining areas provide an excellent area for residents to enjoy healthy and tasty meals. It also has a private dining room that can be booked to provide a more intimate dining experience with family and friends.

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Care operator, Mohammed Maqsud Khan of Westerfield House, a well-established care home in Ipswich, has been successfully refinanced via Christie Finance to expand to become a £25m village.

Since acquiring the property in 2011, the now Westerfield House has been painstakingly and sympathetically developed by Mohammed Maqsud Khan (known as Mac) and his team to become an impressive care facility, which provides residential care and assisted living services to its local community.

The property originally operated as a hotel set in over nine acres of land.

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