Orchard efforts’ bear fruit

Orchard Care Homes.com Holdings Limited reported a 18% rise in revenues from £106.3m to £125.4m for the year ended 31 March 2015, including £2m...

Despite growth revenues are static at Runwood

Despite adding more than 100 new beds to its portfolio, revenues for Runwood Homes remained static for the year ended 30 September 2015. The...

Outcome makes loss ahead of Options buy

Ahead of its acquisition of Options First Group, Sovereign-backed Outcomes First Group reported revenues of £45.9m for the year ended 31 December 2014, its...

Franchising – could it work for care homes? William Laing looks at whether this...

Franchising works well in homecare. A prime example is Bluebird Care, which pioneered homecare franchising in Britain and at April 2016 boasted 86% good or...

Specialist care growth opportunities in Scotland: Suhail Mirza finds providers anticipate that a steady...

It has been 16 years since the Same as You? learning disability policy was published - the first national review of learning disabilities in...

Blackwell joins Trowers’ healthcare team

Hillary Blackwell has joined Trowers & Hamlins real estate team as a partner, operating within its health and social care group. She was previously...

Dr Davis to operate Tracscare

Specialist care provider Tracscare has appointed Dr Felix Davies as chief operating officer. He joins from Beacon UK, where he was interim director of...

Bodmer takes on ADASS presidency

Executive director of adult social services at Norfolk county council Harold Bodmer is now president of the Association of Directors of Social Services. He...

Kelly leaves Barchester after 27 years

Harry Kelly has left Barchester Healthcare after 27 years with the operator. Mr Kelly moved to an advisory role last year after serving as...

Acquisitions boost CareTech’s business

Ahead of the publication of its results for the six months ended 31 March 2016, CareTech said in a stockmarket statement that ‘strategic initiatives...