CPA to produce benchmark standards

Community Care Market News (News) April 1998The Centre for Policy on Ageing (CPA) is to produce benchmark standards on behalf of the Department of...

New care centre – New Deal

Community Care Market News (News) April 1998BetterCare Ltd, operators of Uplands Care Centre in Streatham which opened in January 1998, has signed up to...

Health Action Zones named

Community Care Market News (News) April 1998Eleven areas of England - including inner cities and rural areas have been selected as the first Health...

EAT makes decision on Cornwall Care

Community Care Market News (News) March 1998The Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) has delivered its judgment in the case of Cornwall Care ruling that although...

Drug and alcohol grants

Community Care Market News (News) March 1998The Department of Health (DoH) has issued a Local Authority Circular (LAC(98)6) which sets out the arrangements for...

Debate of the Age launched

Community Care Market News (News) March 1998Age Concern is coordinating the largest public consultation initiative ever undertaken in Britain, entitled The Millennium Debate of...

Health Committee hears evidence on prevalence of Berlin Walls

Community Care Market News (News) March 1998The Health Committee has this month heard evidence from the Department of Health (DoH), the Association of Directors...

Nursing costs of long term care

The Secretary of State for Health was asked (Hansard 27 January 1998 at column 201) what consultation the government has carried out on the...

RNHA response to open reporting

Community Care Market News (News) March 1998The Registered Nursing Home Association (RNHA) has published its response to the consultation document published by the government...

Time to invest in rehabilitation

Community Care Market News (News) March 1998Pressures on hospitals and long-term care facilities could be relieved if rehabilitation services were developed more widely, according...