Care UK & Hanover Housing MoU

Community Care Market News (News) November 2004Care UK, the quoted specialist health and social care provider, has signalled its confidence in the extra care...

McCarthy & Stone doing well

McCarthy & Stone, the UK's leading retirement housing provider, has recently announced its annual results for the year to 31 August 2004. The results show...

Wales struggling with direct payments

The number of people using direct payments in Wales has fallen in the past year, new research has revealed.Of the 70,000 service users eligible...

Scots still dying younger

Community Care Market News (News) November 2004Eight out of ten UK local authorities with the lowest male life expectancy at birth in 2001/03 are...

HFT chairman

National learning disabilities charity HFT has announced the appointment of Robert Wood as the new chairman-elect of its council of trustees. Wood takes over...

SCIE takes charge of government agencies

The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) has confirmed that it is to take control of seven key Department of Health (DH) agencies in...

Physiotherapy report on home care

Community Care Market News (News) November 2004There are massive variations in council home care provision across England, with some local authorities providing very little...

Guidance for councils on top-ups

New Department of Health guidance ostensibly designed to stop councils from extracting top-up fees from care home residents has been criticised by the long...

Policy roadblock in London

There are fundamental policy dilemmas the government must face up to if it is to improve to social care services for London's elderly, the...

Welsh delayed discharge stats

Community Care Market News (News) November 2004The total number of patients experiencing delayed discharge from hospitals in Wales was 785 on 15 September 2004,...