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Care UK AGM
Residential care and nursing group Care UK has arranged new borrowing facilities with its banks for the next ten years - taking its limits...
Cigarette break costs carers their job
Following a nine month investigation into the conduct of staff at the Dan-y-Myndd care home in Rhondda, south Wales, six previously suspended carers were...
Independent operators push up care market value
Rising new-build costs and increasing care fee levels were just two reasons behind 2004 being a 'phenomenal' year for growth in the care home...
Gloucestershire to transfer homes again
Gloucestershire county council has selected The Orders of St John Care Trust (OSJ) to run the 21 care homes it owns. It is currently...
Expansion appointment at Robinia Care
Robinia Care, provider of care for adults and young people with learning difficulties, has announced the appointment of Andrew Nicholson to the position of...
Ladyman unveils nursing care funding boost
Health Minister Stephen Ladyman has revealed increases to funding for both 'high' and 'medium' need registered nursing care contribution (RNCC) but, for a second...
Social services (older people)
Sandra Gidley asked the Secretary of State for Health (25 Jan 2005: Column 327W) what action he is taking to improve the assessment of...
IT links up ENHANCE
A major new IT support network has been installed by Hampshire county council to link up the care homes, care workers and residents under...
King’s Fund gives Derek Wanless go-ahead to finish ‘jigsaw’
Health policy think tank The King's Fund has commissioned Sir Derek Wanless to head an inquiry into the demand for and supply of social...
New chair for JRF
Sir William Utting CB, formerly the Chief Inspector of Social Services, has become chair of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's trustees, replacing Kenneth Dixon CBE...
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