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Private equity interest spreads to France
Britain's private equity firms continued to make returns on long term care providers last month, with news that London-based EAC has sold France's sixth-biggest...
Innovative wage-fixing scheme could solve recruitment headache
Local authorities should consider imposing a mandatory wage-fixing scheme in order to improve the recruitment and retention of domiciliary care staff, a conference of...
DH responds to regulation task force recommendations
The government has accepted five recommendations made by a task force set up to monitor the regulation of social care in England.The recommendations, which...
New CSCI inspection regime
Care homes for elderly people could be given hotel-style rankings as part of a new inspection regime mooted by the Commission for Social Care...
Care Forum Wales boss to advise Assembly on policy
Mario Kreft, chief executive of Care Forum Wales, has been appointed a member of the National Partnership Forum for Older People. The forum was...
Cuts to Supporting People confirmed
The government has confirmed plans to reduce funding for the Supporting People care services programme, cutting the allocation to £1.72bn for 2005/06 from £1.8bn...
Ladyman: it’s direct payments or bust
Care providers will have to offer more choice and flexibility to home care service users - or else risk going out of business, Minister...
MHA to take over management of ExtraCare Trust homes
Methodist Homes for the Aged (MHA) is to take over eight dementia and nursing care homes run by the ExtraCare Charitable Trust as part...
Fall in local authority-supported care home residents slows
The number of care home residents being supported by English councils fell by 2% to 277,950 (all clients, all sectors) in the year to...
Care UK non-executive director
Care UK plc, the specialist health and social care provider, has announced the appointment of Ruth Carnall to the company's board as a non-executive...
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