Ealing renews domiciliary care contracts

Care Markets
The London borough of Ealing is advertising for interested organisations to express an interest in the provision of domiciliary care services in the borough.At...

Directory shows continued expansion of major providers

Care Markets
Community Care Market News (News) March 1999Corporate providers of nursing and residential care continued to expand during 1998, according to the twelfth edition of...

Bettercare centre opens

Care Markets
Community Care Market News (News) March 1999Bettercare has opened its £3m Emberbrook Care Centre on the former Milk Marketing Board site in Thames Ditton,...

Hackney restructures external home care

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The London borough of Hackney is seeking to dramatically reduce the number of external agencies providing home care in the borough.The move follows an...

Government action ‘will push up cost of carers’

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Community Care Market News (News) March 1999The Federation of Recruitment and Employment Services (FRES) has warned that the combined effects of the Working Time...

Cheshire takes legal action over debts

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Cheshire county council's social services department is to take legal action against people who have persistently refused to pay home and day care charges.Around...

Haringey seeks home care block contracts

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The London borough of Haringey is looking to change the way it purchases domiciliary care for elderly people.The council currently purchases around 250,000 hours...

Better Rehabilitation could cut waiting lists

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Community Care Market News (News) March 1999A report published this month by Age Concern argues that hospitals could make 72,000 more admissions a year...

Doncaster introduces charges

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Doncaster metropolitan borough council will introduce charges for the use of day centres by people with learning difficulties.The decision, which was ratified at a...

Residential care (appointments)

Care Markets
The Secretary of State for Health was asked (Hansard 16 February 1999 at column 389) if the Department of Health (DoH) will make a...
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