Prime Life continues its expansion

Prime Life Ltd, the Midlands based health and social care provider controlled by the Van Herrewege family, has continued its major expansion programme in...

SCIE appoints new board member

The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) has appointed Ziggi Alexander CBE to its Board of Trustees.Alexander holds a varied portfolio of roles in...

Is privately funded home care declining?

A report published jointly by Skills for Care and the UK Home Care Association (UKHCA), Who Cares Now?, has found an unexpected fall in...

Capital’s care ‘under-funded’ and ‘under-staffed’ in a nationally failing market

Green Paper proposals on elderly care will not deliver the radical improvement in services required, according to a King's Fund report which claims the...

Investors tap into telecare

Private equity investor Bridgepoint has acquired telecare equipment and services provider Tunstall Holdings from HgCapital in a transaction worth £225m, making the former owner...

£1.5m funding injection for city carers

Unpaid carers looking after relatives in Bristol city are to benefit from £1.5m of extra funding following a council pledge made last month during...

Allied reacts to homecare revolution

A restructuring programme, new corporate identity and £8m IT system have been unveiled by Allied Healthcare as part of a project to develop company...

Highlanders act to prevent abuse

Guidance and procedures to protect vulnerable people from abuse in care homes and other community care settings has been approved by Highland council in...

Blackburn counters OFT claims

Reacting to May's Office of Fair Trade (OFT) call for better information on care home to be made available to the general public Blackburn...

Care Council for Wales re-appoints

Welsh Minister for Health and Social Services Brian Gibbons has announced three re-appointments within the Care Council for Wales.Arthur Todd of Conway county borough...