NHS improvement plan

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Community Care Market News (News) July 2004There was little mention of social care in the Department of Health's (DH) NHS Improvement Plan, published last...

Ladyman fails to deliver on care home refund pledge

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Community Care Market News (News) July 2004The government has missed its deadline for refunding thousands of elderly people who have been inappropriately denied fully-funded...

Big guns battle it out for Reading block contracts

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Community Care Market News (News) July 2004Life Style Care plc, the care home provider run by Ramesh Sachdev, has opened its largest care centre...

DH responds to report on elder abuse

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Community Care Market News (News) July 2004Campaigners have urged the government to rethink its strategy on elder abuse, after the Department of Health (DH)...

Scottish watchdog criticises councils’ ‘patchy’ service

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Community Care Market News (News) July 2004Scottish councils are offering a 'patchy and inconsistent' service, meaning that more than 1,800 elderly people were waiting...

£4.5m direct payments funding

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Community Care Market News (News) July 2004Health Minister Stephen Ladyman allocated a further £4.5m of funding to 44 charities last month as the government...

OFT probe sidesteps top-up complaints

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Community Care Market News (News) July 2004The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is to look into complaints that care home operators are failing to...

Agencies using visa scam to exploit overseas care home workers

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Community Care Market News (News) July 2004Unscrupulous employment agencies are using a visa scam to hire foreign nurses to work in British care homes...

‘Crisis’ in voluntary sector recruitment and retention

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Community Care Market News (News) July 2004Voluntary sector campaigners have renewed calls for the government to address the 'growing crisis' in the recruitment and...

Question marks over government’s delayed discharge ‘success’

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Community Care Market News (News) July 2004Almost two thirds of older people are not receiving access to social workers either in hospital or after...
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