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Shropshire seeks recovery of debt
Shropshire county council is threatening to take around 80 people with learning disabilities to court in an attempt to recover monies owned for attendance...
Essex homes win quality accreditation
Essex county council is considering extending a quality assurance scheme to all its residential care homes following the successful completion of the accreditation system...
Age Concern guide to combat overuse of drugs
Age Concern has this month published a guide to good practice regarding the use of anti-psychotic sedatives on patients with dementia in care homes....
Joint reviews report mixed performance
The Social Services Inspectorate (SSI) and Audit Commission have this month published three reports of reviews of social services departments. Whilst West Sussex received...
Gloucestershire looks to reduce delayed discharges
Gloucestershire county council's social services committee has expressed its continuing concern at the high number of people whose discharge from hospital is delayed because...
Bolton director
Andy Robertson has been appointed director of social services for Bolton metropolitan borough. He was appointed acting director in October last year following the...
Care UK bid
Care UK plc formally announced early this month on the London Stock Exchange that it was in very early preliminary talks with a third...
Alzheimer’s disease therapies may pay for themselves
Community Care Market News (News) July 1998The costs of new drug therapies which are used to treat patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) may be...
Two new national training organisations for health
Community Care Market News (News) July 1998The establishment of national training organisations for the healthcare sector and for personal social services will help to...
Praise for hospice care
Community Care Market News (News) July 1998The NHS must learn from the broad experience of the hospice movement to bring palliative care into the...
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