Christie gives Ridgmont a boost

Ridgmont Care Homes Ltd, the nursing home operator run by ex-ANS finance director Roger Storey, has received a welcome boost from a revaluation of...

BFCP to join ECCA

Community Care Market News (News) November 2004The British Federation of Care Providers (BFCP) is to join the English Community Care Association (ECCA), the largest...

Ashbourne pays £60m for Highclear

Ashbourne Healthcare, the care home business owned by mid-market private equity specialist Electra Partners Europe Ltd, has acquired fellow provider Highclear for more than...

Sanctuary chairman

Sanctuary Care, the Worcester-based not-for-profit housing association has appointed Graham Stacy CBE as its new chairman. Stacy, who replaces Joan Nash, spent most of...

New look for home care association

Community Care Market News (News) November 2004The British Association of Domiciliary Care (BADCO) relaunched itself last month as a new organisation aiming to represent...

Vulnerable Adults List

Claire Curtis-Thomas asked the Secretary of State for Health (26 October 2004: Column 1205W) if he will make a statement on the operation of...

Hertfordshire adult services director

Sarah Pickup has been appointed as director of Hertfordshire County Council's adult care services. She has been the department's acting director since September last...

Lincolnshire home care rethink

Lincolnshire County Council has withdrawn plans to increase home care charges for the elderly by as much as 43%.The council had planned to increase...

Maidenhead to build 60-bed home

Maidenhead councillors have approved plans to demolish a 23-bedroom residential home for the elderly and replace it with a new one with more than...

Admissions suspended following Merthyr Tydfil inspection

Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council has been forced to suspend admissions to its four care homes for older people, following a recent inspection by...