Health targets discriminatory

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998The government's public health targets discriminate against older people, according to Help the Aged. The charity claims that...

ABI opposed to compulsory insurance

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has concluded that compulsory insurance as a solution to the problem of...

Craegmoor opens new specialist care provision

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998Craegmoor Healthcare has this month opened Ashfield Lodge Nursing Home which caters for 20 elderly mentally infirm residents....

Guide to registered homes published

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998Paul Ridout, solicitor with Dibb Lupton Alsop and a member of CCMN's editorial board, has this month published...

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...

Amendments to CRAG

The Department of Health has published local authority circular (LAC(98)8) which outlines amendments to the charging assessment rules local authorities apply in respect of...

New chair and trustees for HACT

The Housing Associations Charitable Trust (HACT) has appointed June McKerrow, director of the Mental Health Foundation, as chair of the organisation. June McKerrow started...

General Social Care Council

The Secretary of State for Health was asked (Hansard 11 March 1998 at column 236) if the government will include proposals for a national...