Additional capacity helps drive financial performance at Aspris

Additional capacity and fee levels helped drive up revenue and cut losses at Aspris Children’s Services. The group, which operates divisions in the UK and...

Curam partnership to support carers with medication management

Care worker marketplace Curam is partnering pharmacy service PillSorted to improve medication access and management for its carers and their clients. Through digital platforms, Curam...

Election silence on social care ‘finally broken’ by Lib Dems

Care sector representative bodies have welcomed plans by the Liberal Democrats to reform social care. Under the party’s proposals, free personal care would be offered...

Staying alert

Uncertainty clouds the inspection regime following the introduction of a new assessment framework and the CQC now subject to a government review. Carl May-Smith,...

Signature Senior Lifestyle invests over £1.4m in staff pay uplifts

Signature Senior Lifestyle is investing more than £1.4m in pay increases for its staff. This follows a 10% rise to the company starting rate last...

Mills & Reeve strengthens health & care and life sciences teams

Law firm Mills and Reeve has appointed three new partners across its health & care and life sciences sectors, based in Birmingham, London and...

Knight Frank promotes Julian Evans to global head of healthcare

Knight Frank has appointed proprietary partner Julian Evans to the newly-created role of global head of healthcare as it continues to strengthen its global...

Laura Shelton appointed regulatory partner at HCR Law

Health and social care lawyer Laura Shelton has become a regulatory partner at HCR Law. Formerly a senior associate at Ridout Solicitors, where she spent...

Transforming integrated care

Values-based care needs to be rooted in the system, argues Daniel Casson Integrated care systems are emerging as a powerful mechanism to address the complex...

Council leaders set out plans for reform  

The County Councils Network (CCN) has called on the next government to set out how it will fund local authorities and reform council services...