Barchester Healthcare up for sale
Barchester Healthcare, one of the UK’s biggest care home groups, is up for sale in a deal valued at over £2.5bn as owners Dermot...
Hancock announces £240m for social care this winter
Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock (pictured) has announced emergency funding worth £240m for the adult social care sector to help ease demand...
Four Seasons starts search for buyer
Four Seasons Health Care is to launch a formal sales process in January in efforts to restabilise the troubled business.
A sale is excepted to complete...
Older people express concerns over social care support
Older people have spoken of their concerns in how local officials determine their eligibility for social care support.
In interviews carried out by Human Rights...
HIQA finds 40% of care homes breaching regulations
Inspectors have found evidence of non-compliance of regulations and standards in 40% of care homes in Ireland.
The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) has...
Care and support provision ‘extremely volatile’, say council directors
More than half of local authorities in England are rationing care and support, a survey of council directors has found.
Despite an increase in the...
Mears chairman Bob Holt to stand down
Mears Group chairman Bob Holt (pictured) will not stand for re-election at the organisation’s 2019 annual general meeting.
The decision comes days after Shareholder Value...
Care businesses increasingly attracting buyers from further afield
Growth in the proportion of deals by buyers located out of local or regional areas from the target business is reflecting more of a...
Number of care home residents grows 3.1%
Care home resident numbers in England from 1 March 2022 to 28 February 2023 reached 372,035, representing a 3.1% uplift from last year (2022:...
CQC ‘closely monitoring’ future viability of Allied Healthcare
Allied Healthcare has failed to provide adequate assurance to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) that the company has funding or new investment to ensure...
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