Route to recruitment

The recruitment market is tough. Ellie Robinson examines how some care providers are tackling the issue by taking on overseas workers With increasing challenges around...

Urban Village Group care setting to be operated by Bracebridge

Developer Urban Village Group is expected to open its first care home setting, which will be let to Bracebridge Care Group, in April. The Maples...

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...

Cera surpasses target for at-home appointments by 50%

Cera delivered more than 1.5 million at-home appointments in January, surpassing its target by 50%. It had aimed to carry out one million appointments last...

CM meets… Torsten Mack

Following spells at BC Partners, Priory Group and Goldman Sachs, Torsten Mack joined Downing LLP as investment director in 2019. Here, he discusses Downing’s...

Acquisitions help drive up results at City and County Healthcare

Expansion of City and County Healthcare’s homecare and complex care offerings helped drive up turnover and EBITDA at the provider. Acquisitions helped generate £22.9m of...

A failed formula

Professor Green believes finding solutions is not that difficult The prime minister recently held a health forum, which concluded the way the NHS could...

ICSs not addressing ‘longstanding tension’ between health and care

Integrated care systems (ICSs) may not make a difference to patients unless government gets ‘a grip’ of the current health and social care crisis,...

EBITDA slips at Ideal Carehomes despite rising fees and openings

Rising fees and the number of care home beds could not stem slips in revenue and EBITDA at Ideal Carehomes Topco Ltd, as settings...

Providers warned over cyber security as digital switchover gathers pace

The move from paper to digital is making ‘real positive progress’ but there is still some way to go. Deven Pamben provides coverage from...