Four Seasons goes online

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Four Seasons Health Care has launched a website that aims to offer users comprehensive information about the company and the services it offers. In...

Gwynedd

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Gwynedd social services for adults are 'too reliant on residential care', according to a joint review of its social services by the Audit Commission...

HCA attacks standards

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Hampshire Care Association (HCA) has criticised requirements contained in the government's National Minimum Standards for homes for younger adults, saying they threaten to force...

Harrow tenders for provision of care

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Harrow Council is inviting expressions of interest from providers of a number of care services following a successful Private Finance Initiative (PFI) bid earlier...

Key appointments to NCSC

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Health Minister, Jacqui Smith has announced the appointment of Ron Kerr as chief executive of the National Care Standards Commission (NCSC). Kerr has been...

Covert administration of medicines can be justified

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Community Care Market News (News) October 2001Guidelines allowing nurses to disguise medication in food and drink in certain circumstances have provoked a strong reaction...

Councils need to address ‘sticking points’ in elderly care services

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Community Care Market News (News) October 2001Social care services for older people are improving across the country, but social services departments need to address...

Liberal Democrat blames bed blocking on high number of home closures

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Community Care Market News (News) October 2001The loss of 50,000 long term care spaces over the last five years is to blame for bed-blocking...

Funding pressures force closure

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Community Care Market News (News) October 2001A Sue Ryder care home in Suffolk will close at the end of November due to funding pressures....

VAT removed from continence products

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Community Care Market News (News) October 2001The Department of Customs and Excise has announced that continence products will no longer be subject to VAT....
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