Medicals Direct acquires Company Health Group’s operating subsidiaries

Medical services solutions and occupational health provider Medicals Direct Group has acquired three companies operated by former rival Company Health Group (CHG) Plc from...

Pipeline strong for a record high Mears

Record results have been posted by the homecare and social housing maintenance company Mears Group which, despite the prospect of tightening purse strings across...

Is the White Paper good for the independent sector? William Laing offers his view

If implemented, the White Paper would significantly extend the role of the state in funding long term care for the English propertied middle classes. This...

Southern Cross shares fall off the cliff…again

Shares in the UK’s largest elderly care provider slumped to a new 12 month low at the end of March after a pre-close update...

Cerrus Saturn enters new orbit

The Surrey-based software provider Cerrus Ltd, designer of the social care management system Saturn, has been acquired by the Aim-listed Advanced Computer Software (ACS)...

August Equity commits further £20m to homecare

Private investment group August Equity has bought the live-in carer agency Active Assistance from ISI Equity Group in a deal which will see it...

PSPI wants £25m injection

Following quick on the heels of a trading update which put performance in 2009 in line with expectations (CCMN March 2010), the listed European...

Cigna reports record dental sales

CIGNA HealthCare has reported record sales of its dental plans in 2009.Despite the recession, the insurer said sales of its plans increased by 67%...

Robinia launches into 2010 with name change

Robinia Support Services, the provider of specialist support and care services for people with a wide range of learning disabilities, has changed its name...

Avery celebrates heady twelve month run

Avery Healthcare is understandably keen to boast that the path it set itself on just over a year ago to open ten new homes...