Domiciliary care contracts

Partners at Bevan Brittan Monica Macheng and David Owens examine issues the CMA could look at should a market study of domiciliary care take...

Meeting legislative responsibilities

More than four in ten homecare providers in Wales have handed back a care package within the past six months. Closer analysis shows that the...

Shifting strategies

Operators are looking at growing their private pay client base. Eleanore Robinson analyses this segment of the market As local authority commissioning of homecare services...

Keeping connected

As a regular point of contact and support for hundreds of thousands of people every year in the UK, homecare staff are on the...

Dr Jane Townson appointed UKHCA interim chief executive

Former Somerset Care Group chief executive Dr Jane Townson has been appointed as interim CEO of the UK Homecare Association (UKHCA) for an initial...

Social housing watchdog critical of long-term lease obligations

Bespoke Supportive Tenancies Ltd (BeST) – a provider of homes for vulnerable adults - is falling to meet governance and financial viability standards, a...
Diversification proves positive for Impact Healthcare

Impact’s share placing ‘significantly oversubscribed’

Impact Healthcare REIT’s share placing which was announced last month has been ‘significantly oversubscribed’. The board exercised its right to increase the size of the...

Charity partners with Centrica to give carers more paid leave

Carers UK has partnered with Centrica to try and help one million carers stay in or return to work by 2020. The energy and services...

Ashley House signs off contracts despite frustrations

Ashley House has signed contracts to start work on two care schemes and has been awarded further projects but the length of time to...

CM meets… Yvonne Hignell

The managing director of Bluebird Care speaks to Deven Pamben about the challenges and opportunities facing the homecare sector, as well as how technology...