Most people not planning how they will fund their care
Roughly half of English adults do not know what ‘social care’ means and have not planned how they will pay for their care when...
Declining confidence among council leaders to deliver care
Confidence among council leaders and chief executives to deliver adult social care has declined by 21% in the past eight months, a survey has...
Net capacity boost for CareTech
Net capacity in residential and supported living at CareTech was 2,622 places at the year-end (2017: 2,534 places), a net increase of 88, its trading...
Voyage Care partners with Chroma to provide music therapy
Chroma is partnering with Voyage Care to provide neurologic arts therapy to patients who are undergoing neuro-rehabilitation.
The art therapy provider will initially deliver a...
Equal pay strike disrupts homecare services in Glasgow
Around 8,000 council workers took part in a two-day strike over equal pay this week disrupting homecare services in the city.
As well as affecting...
Recruitment and training problems leading to poor end-of-life care
Staff shortages and a lack of training means older people’s end-of-life care is often unacceptable, the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) chief inspector of adult...
Impact considers cash injection to buy care homes
Impact Healthcare REIT is proposing to raise £150m after identifying a portfolio care homes it wants to buy.
The real estate investment trust, which intends...
iCON snaps up Choice Care for £153m
Investment group iCON Infrastructure has bought Choice Care Group from Caledonia Investments plc for £152.5m.
The provider of residential and supported living services for people...
Long-term care spending reaches £14bn
Long-term care spending climbed by £369m to reach £14bn in 2017/18, according to a financial report published by NHS Digital.
Overall, the number of people...
Councils accused of buying homecare services ‘on the cheap’
The homecare sector needs at least £402m per year to ensure workers receive the statutory National Living Wage (£7.83), while also ensuring providers can...
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