Joint working initiative for Havering

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Havering borough council and Barking and Havering health authority are to create a new management position aimed at improving joint working between health and...

Haringey director

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Mary Richardson has joined Haringey council, as director of housing and social services. She was previously director of social services at Waltham Forest where...

NHP acquires 25 homes

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Nursing Home Properties (NHP) this month announced the acquisition, through its subsidiaries, of 25 care homes comprising 1020 beds for £38.214m.The acquisitions are:1. The recently...

Call for end to inconsistency on standards

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Community Care Market News (News) May 1998The Better Regulation Task Force, an independent advisory body set up by the Chancellor of the Duchy of...

Means test confusion leads to overpayment

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Community Care Market News (News) May 1998A new report published by Joseph Rowntree Foundation has discovered that some older people are making a greater...

Independent sector provides 44% of local authority home care

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Community Care Market News (News) May 1998Figures on community care in England published this month by the Department of Health in a statistical bulletin,...

Vulnerable people deserve a better deal say Audit Commission

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Community Care Market News (News) May 1998Housing authorities are struggling to cope with changing and rising demand, according to a report published this month...

Partnership must be way forward

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Community Care Market News (News) May 1998Speaking at Laing & Buisson's conference on inter agency collaboration last month, Under Secretary of State for Health...

Royal Commission submissions

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Community Care Market News (News) May 1998A number of organisations have this month published their submissions to the Royal Commission on the Long Term...

CCC updates residential contract

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Community Care Market News (News) May 1998The Continuing Care Conference (CCC) has published the second edition of its framework contract between residential care providers...
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