Southern Cross gives itself three years to improve quality

Southern Cross Healthcare, the UK’s largest long term care provider, has admitted that standards of service delivery across its portfolio of care beds are...

Minimum wage up, but LPC urges councils to meet actual costs of care

Despite heavy lobbying from heads representing many industries across the country calling for the national minimum wage level be frozen in the face of...

Deficits recorded at Paycare

Wolverhampton-based Paycare has produced another set of disappointing results for the year ended 31 December 2008. Following a fall in premium income in 2007,...

Improvements at The Hospital Medical Group

Cosmetic surgery provider The Hospital Medical Group (THMG) has recorded its eighth consecutive year of revenue growth. Sales increased by 4% to £26.2m in the...

Assura predicts £4m losses

Primary care specialist Assura is predicting trading losses of £4m in the current year – at the lower end of its expectations.In a trading...

UK companies looking at recession opportunities

UK businesses are using the recession to get ahead of their competitors, according to new research examining recessionary behaviour amongst established UK companies by...

Recession is a Nu Nu for Midlands provider

Midlands-based nursery provider Nu Nu plc has filed accounts for the year ended September 2008 which show a company in good health despite the...

Decline in fortunes for childcare market, suggests leading report

The growth of the childcare market has been halved on figures for the previous year and both demand and occupancy figures are weakening as...

Revenue down but Nestor reports ‘good progress’

The cost of redundancies, vacant properties and potential liabilities from past clinical incidents have dented operating profits at Nestor Healthcare.Revenue was down 9% to...

‘Lighter’ Nestor strengthened by Carewatch sale

The disposal of Carewatch last October and the decision to end some non-profitable contracts has served to help Nestor Healthcare tighten margins in its...