The crisis creeping up on learning disability care

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Financial pressures on local authority budgets and an alarming shortage of suitable social housing stock are increasingly jeopardising the provision of support for adults...

CCMN Special report – Business Case

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Paul Kaiser has over 25 years’ experience in corporate finance transactions and has specialised in advising on a whole host of M&As, disposals and...

Sector Opinions: The Law Commission’s final report on adult social care – how was...

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As CCMN went to press last month the Law Commission released its vision of a unified social care statute (CCMN May 2011). Almost three years...

View from the Top – Dr Pete Calveley comments on the latest CQC hospital...

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The disturbing report of what the Care Quality Commission (CQC) found in its hospital inspections underlines the extent to which the current model for...

William Laing on the past month in care

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The last few weeks have not been good ones for the private sector in public relations terms (though not-for-profits have come out unscathed). The financial...

Case Study – children’s palliative care

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Anne Harris, Director of Care Services at children’s charity Rainbow Trust, explores the challenges of ‘end of life care’ at home for children and...

Care in the Courts pt2 – PCTs in the dock?

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In April, CCMN explored the current state of affairs regarding care providers taking local authorities to judicial review over what they consider to be...

Excellence outsourced – should the CQC be allowed to sell off the care ratings...

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The care watchdog is set on outsourcing its latest attempt at an excellence rating system for social care providers, with the window for tender...

People not numbers – personalisation agenda case study

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Having recognised the principle of Putting People First, government focus has turned towards a wide agreement of transforming adult social care. By April of this...

CCMN Business Care – MedicX

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When healthcare plays the property marketThe ownership and management of property is a vital component in most industries, and despite gathering energies to move...
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