Forest Healthcare acquisition

Community Care Market News (News) February 2003Forest Healthcare Ltd, has acquired Borehamwood Care Village in Hertfordshire which comprises 39 registered care homes with nursing...

Tameside joins fee debate as Nottinghamshire settles

Care home owners in Tameside are the latest to threaten legal action over the level of fees paid for local authority funded nursing and...

Care costs

Paul Burstow asked the Secretary of State for Health (19 Dec 2002: Column 1042W) what the average cost per week is of keeping a...

Charity judicial review rejected

Community Care Market News (News) February 2003A learning disability charity's bid to contest the National Care Standard Commission's (NCSC) decision not to allow it...

Care UK AGM and acquisition and change of brokers

Care UK plc has published a trading update to coincide with its Annual General Meeting, reporting that group performance is in line with market...

Home care

Paul Burstow asked the Secretary of State for Health (9 January 2003: Column 328W) how many households received older person home care in each...

Home care exempted from VAT

Community Care Market News (News) February 2003The government has announced its intention to abolish VAT on homecare. In a statement late last year John...

CHOICE non-executive director

CHOICE (Community Homes of Intensive Care and Education) has appointed David Howard as non-executive chairman. Most recently Howard was a non-executive director of Care...

Hospital discharge and readmission

Paul Burstow asked the Secretary of State for Health (9 January 2003: Column 329W) how many delayed hospital discharges there were associated with delays...

Sector ’emerging from doldrums’ says Christie & Co

Community Care Market News (News) February 2003Care home property values increased by 3.1% in 2002 and the market is set to stabilise in 2003,...