Council care homes sold for £3m
Two care homes, which were owned and operated by Suffolk County Council, have been sold for a combined sum of nearly £3m.
Sidegate Lane in...
Jill Kerr to leave Balhousie Care Group
Jill Kerr will be leaving her role as chief executive of Balhousie Care Group at the end of the month.
Kerr, who has led the...
Market segmentation to worsen bed capacity crisis
Segmentation of the care home market will leave sub-40 bed facilities ‘exceptionally vulnerable’ in the next few years as austerity measures, a funding gap...
Pilot project aims to speed up communication between care professionals
Person Centred Software is piloting a scheme to give providers across London a joined-up picture of people’s health and care information.
The digital care planning...
Sunrise Senior Living to pay £2m in compensation
Sunrise Senior Living is to pay more than £2m in compensation to former residents unfairly charged upfront fees, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)...
Berkeley Home Health begins recruitment drive with pay uplift
Berkeley Home Health is increasing care assistant pay in Somerset and Wiltshire to a minimum of £15 per hour, as it looks to meet...
Long-stay inpatients face barriers to leaving services
Positive outcomes for people moving out of long-stay inpatient care facilities are being ‘hampered’ by commissioners’ unrealistic cost estimates and ‘rigid’ processes, a report...
McCarthy Stone promotes Shane Paull to COO role
McCarthy Stone has promoted Shane Paull to the role of chief operating officer.
He has worked at the business for the past 23 years and...
Integrated care ‘complex and time consuming’, say MPs
There is no hard evidence that integrated care – at least in the short term – saves money, with the process being complex and...
‘Small fraction’ of financial support spent on care staff
Government support helped avert financial crisis in the care home sector during the pandemic, but it remains unclear if all emergency funding went to...
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