Bexley to transfer residential homes

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Following a lengthy consultation process, Bexley council's social services has announced it is to transfer all of its residential homes for older people to...

Four Seasons completes merger

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Four Seasons Health Care has completed its purchase of CrestaCare plc, originally reported in July (CCMN Volume 6 Issue 4 at page 75). The...

Gateshead selects partners to develop residential care

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Gateshead council is to work in partnership with two not-for-profit organisations to modernise residential care for older people in the borough.The two organisations, Housing...

Housing Associations report increased revenues

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Housing 21 generated increased revenues in the year to March 1999 at £41.2m (£38.6m) with £29.1m (£26.5m) coming from rent of the 12,764 properties...

Pension provides cover for care costs

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Community Care Market News (News) October 1999GE Life has launched what it claims is the first product in the UK to combine an annuity...

New care association

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Community Care Market News (News) October 1999A new care association - the Christian Care Association - has been formed to promote Christian spirituality and...

Second receivership raises questions over industry funding

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Community Care Market News (News) October 1999The subject of funding for the long term care industry came to the fore once again this month...

ICON seeks action over fee levels

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Community Care Market News (News) October 1999Further to CCMN's lead article, above, The Independent Care Organisations' Network has recently written to the then Secretary...

UKHCA calls for government action on VAT

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Community Care Market News (News) October 1999The UK Home Care Association (UKHCA) is calling on the government, with the backing of a number of...

Statistics on adult community care published

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Community Care Market News (News) October 1999Information from the first national data collection resulting from the Referrals, Assessments and Packages of Care project was...
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