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DGAA refurbishment for stroke unit
Community Care Market News (News) December 1997DGAA Homelife has announced details of a £1.8m facelift and expansion of its Rush Court nursing home in...
Grants failure reduces independence
Community Care Market News (News) December 1997Older and disabled people can wait up to two years for essential adaptations and equipment because the disabled...
PPP Lifetime launches equity release scheme
Community Care Market News (News) December 1997PPP Lifetime has launched a new equity release scheme to fund long term care insurance, Asset Access. The...
LA staff lose out on transfers
Local government workers are losing out when services are transferred to private contractors, according to the preliminary findings of a survey carried out by...
Bed blocking
The Secretary of State for Health was asked (Hansard 11 November at column 538) to make a statement on proposals to tackle problems associated...
Council completes transfer
Dumfries and Galloway council has become the first council in Scotland to transfer its residential homes to the independent sector. Nine of the councils...
The Budget
Community Care Market News (News) December 1997An extra £97m for social services in 1998/99 was announced by Health Secretary Frank Dobson on 2 December,...
Royal Commission given one year to report
Community Care Market News (News) December 1997The government has announced the setting up of the long-awaited Royal Commission to investigate options for funding long...
ADSS survey on winter pressures
Community Care Market News (News) December 1997Decisions regarding the allocation of additional winter monies have involved a 'considerable' degree of cooperation between health authorities...
RNHA questions hotel scheme
Community Care Market News (News) December 1997The Registered Nursing Home Association (RNHA) has called into question the safety of a scheme whereby a charity...
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