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Paul Sheron to head up learning and development at New Directions

New Directions has appointed its first head of learning and development to drive forward training opportunities for its team of more than 350 members of staff. Paul Sheron will help the provider of adult social care services for over 390 supported people to achieve its goal of being a learning...

Agency use at Voyage Care falls due to higher recruitment and retention

Higher recruitment and retention helped cut agency costs at Voyage Care, its quarterly results showed. Agency fell in Q2 to 2.4% of direct care hours (Q1 2023/24: 2.7%; Q2 2022/23: 5.7%) and was now lower than pre-Covid-19. Staff and agency costs for Q2 2023/24 rose by £7.6m, or 14%, to £62.4m...

Owner of homecare provider handed slavery and trafficking order

A slavery and trafficking risk order (STRO) has been handed down to the owner of a Leicestershire-based homecare service provider. Leicester Magistrates’ Court approved an application from the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) for an interim order against Patience Oyeniran at a hearing on Wednesday 22 November. Oyeniran managed Panashe...

Gold Care Homes grows provision with three settings

Gold Care Homes has acquired three properties as it continues to develop its operations. It has bought Marlborough Court in Thamesmead, Murrayfield in Edmonton, both in London, and Norwood Green in Southall, Middlesex, from Four Seasons Health Care. Marlborough Court is a purpose-built home providing en suite accommodation for up to 78 adults, lounges, outdoor areas and an aviary. Murrayfield provides en suite accommodation for up to 74 adults, lounges and gardens. Both homes offer care across respite, residential, nursing, dementia and palliative care services. Norwood Green provides care services across...

Hallmark searches for external investment as brothers decide to retire

Hallmark Care Homes is searching for an external investment partner to allow shareholders and brothers Ram and Vidya Goyal exit the business and retire. The brothers plan to spend more time with family and focus on other philanthropic work and projects, while Avnish Goyal will remain as the chair and founder of the provider and continue to lead the organisation, supported by managing director Nye Brown. ‘Refinancing represents an exciting opportunity for the future of the business, supporting growth and investment as we continue to deliver award-winning care,’ said Brown. ‘As we...

Dan Braithwaite joins Mills & Reeve as principal associate

Dan Braithwaite has joined Mills & Reeve as a principal associate to support the firm’s health and social care mergers and acquisitions practice. He joins from Pinsent Mason, where he was part of the healthcare team for more than 11 years. He also has experience working in the inhouse legal...

Totally profits plummet following contract losses

Totally plc has said it remains confident in the scale of the opportunity presented by NHS partnerships despite reporting a 20.6% fall in revenue following the loss of its contracts in North West London. The elective care and out-of-hospital services provider booked...

Cleveland Clinic London strengthens orthopaedics team

Cleveland Clinic London has strengthened its capabilities and expertise in orthopaedics with the appointment of consultant orthopaedic surgeons Paul Trikha and Sam Rajaratnam. Rajaratnam is an internationally renowned consultant orthopaedic surgeon, specialising in knee replacement surgery and sporting injuries of the knee. His areas of surgical interest include knee replacement surgery, rapid recovery and faster return to function, reducing pain after...

Phoenix revenues return to ‘normalised’ levels after Covid contracts cease

Central London-based private healthcare operator Phoenix Hospital Group has reported a 14% dip in revenue to £20.3m for the year ended 30 September 2022 following the cessation of its Covid-related contracts. The Group, which operates hospitals in Weymouth Street and Chelmsford and acquired the One Healthcare portfolio subsequent to the year end, said revenue had returned to ‘a more normalised...

Poll reveals quality and NHS waits driving people to go private

Perceived better quality of care and long NHS waiting times are the key reasons for accessing private healthcare, according to new data from patient organisation Healthwatch England. More than 1,700...

Optometrists call for national strategy as NHS waits force patients to pay for treatment

The Association of Optometrists (AOP) is calling on the government to commit to a national eye health strategy after new data revealed that 79% of its members had patients...

Bupa launches preventative wellbeing products

Bupa UK Insurance is launching a new suite of preventative wellbeing products for its members in January. The new services are part of the health insurer’s ‘prevention revolution’ campaign, and...

InSight: Investment opportunities in the global animal feed market

The global animal feed market is estimated at US$500bn, including additives at US$41bn, and both are growing faster than the population at 4%.1 The mix is changing towards more valuable livestock-based product. Arabella Zuckerman, analyst and Adam Scott, senior partner at Mansfield Advisors consider the growing importance of animal feed How...

Sweden: Elos Medtech to de-list from Nasdaq Stockholm

Shortly after raising SEK4.337bn (US$400m) in a rights issue, Elos Medtech, a development and manufacturing partner for medical devices with a focus on dental and orthopaedic implants and instruments, has received approval to leave the public markets and de-list its shares from Nasdaq Stockholm. Proceeds from the rights issue pays for Elos’ acquisition of CDMO Klingel Holding from IK Partners. The decision is driven by a request from major shareholder EM Intressenter, which holds approximately 94.3% of the shares and approximately 83.6% of the votes in the company, for compulsory of remaining...

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