Care UK contracts update

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998Care UK has signed its PFI contract with Westminster city council for the provision of a 110-bed nursing...

DGAA home opens

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998DGAA Homelife has opened The Cotswold Home, its 14th nursing and residential home. The home comprises 51 beds...

Owners ruled unfit

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998The owners of a dual registered home in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire have been ruled unfit following a registered...

Former factory too large for registration

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998A registered homes tribunal has ruled that proposals to register a former factory as a residential home by...

Registration cancelled

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998The owner of two nursing homes in Staffordshire has lost his appeal to a registered homes tribunal and...

Owner’s appeal succeeds

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998The owner of a residential home in Coventry has won her appeal to a registered homes tribunal after...

Call for end to inconsistency on standards

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

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

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

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