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Sarah McCarty appointed chief executive of Social Care Wales

Sarah McCarty has been promoted to the role of chief executive officer at Social Care Wales, taking up the position in summer. McCarty is director of improvement and development at the organisation, a role she has had since April 2016. She began her career as a youth worker and a founding...

Care At Home Group secures facility from Cynergy Business Finance

Care at Home Group (CAHG) has secured a £550,000 invoice discounting facility from asset-based lending (ABL) firm Cynergy Business Finance. Established nearly 30 years ago, the operator provides home support services to adults and children with complex care needs, and was acquired by Karl Jacobie in 2018. It has expanded its...

Cedi Frederick to join Impact Healthcare REIT board

Cedi Frederick will join the board of Impact Healthcare REIT as an independent non-executive director on 1 April. He will also become a member of the audit, nomination, remuneration and management engagement committees on appointment. Over his 40-year career, Frederick has held senior management, chief executive and board member positions in...

Maria Mallaband Care Group geared to open £13m setting

Maria Mallaband Care Group (MMCG) is opening its £13m setting in Biddenham, Bedfordshire, next month. The 60-bed care home, which will launch with an open day next week (23 March), will offer personalised residential, dementia and nursing care. Bentley Grange, which has been built by contractor Lawrence Baker Ltd, is the latest addition to the MMCG portfolio of more than 80 care homes across the UK. The care home includes a hair and beauty salon, a cinema room, a wellness suite, private dining, and leisure suite as well as a grandchildren’s room. ‘For...

Reform fund to support community-based care models

The first portion of a £42.6m pot of funding will be used for projects, such as expanding community-based care models. Through the accelerating reform fund, £20m will be allocated in 2023/24 to support people in adult social care and unpaid carers, with £22.6m earmarked for 2024/25. The money will used to for projects such as Shared Lives, a service that matches people aged 16 and above with approved carers. Under this scheme, people move in with their Shared Lives carer on a short- or long-term basis, giving people with care needs more...

Chief technical officer at Check4Cancer

Check4Cancer has appointed Jake Cordran as chief technical officer. Cordran has significant experience across a number of areas including technology and security, IT architecture, data and analytics and product development. Check4Cancer chief medical officer Professor Gordon Wishart said the appointment was a significant milestone for the company, which would consolidate its...

Bupa and GenesisCare sign four-year deal

Cancer care provider GenesisCare has signed a new four-year agreement with Bupa. The new contract term, which runs until August 2027, will see both organisations working to expand the provision of radiotherapy and systemic therapy services for Bupa’s UK health insurance...

The problem with PROMs data

In the latest column from the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN), clinical advisor Dr Christopher Smith-Brown and health data analyst Paulo Arana explain the importance of Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) and highlight the quality issues with some of the data being submitted PHIN publishes six Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs): breast augmentation, cataracts, knee replacement, hip replacement, liposuction and...

OSD Healthcare appoints CEO

Day surgery and outpatient clinic OSD Healthcare has appointed Phil Bates as CEO. Bates has extensive experience in private healthcare, including managerial roles at Ramsay, Capio and Aspen Healthcare. He is currently hospital director at Ramsay Health Care’s The Yorkshire Clinic. Prior to that he was hospital director at Aspen Healthcare’s Parkside Hospital and Cancer Centre London, which now trades as...

Spire opens £5.5m clinic in Wales

Spire Healthcare has opened a £5.5m diagnostics and day surgery clinic in North Wales. Located in Abergele’s North Wales Business Park, The Spire Healthcare Abergale Clinic will deliver up to...

Stokes to take over as MPS chair of council

Medical defence organisation Medical Protection Society (MPS) has appointed Graham Stokes as chair of council. Stokes is a general dental practitioner with a special interest in implants and prosthetics. He...

Totally secures insourcing contract in Ireland

Urgent care and NHS insourcing provider Totally plc has secured a £700,000 insourcing contract for the delivery of oral and maxillofacial outpatient and day surgery services for the Saolta...

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