Care Markets

The Orders of St John Care Trust has appointed Dan Hayes as chief executive. Formerly operations director for the Trust, Mr Hayes has been...

Care home providers have expressed serious concerns if plans approved by the British Medical Association (BMA) that would see GPs no longer providing primary...

Cygnet Health Care has appointed Dr Humphrey Needham-Bennett as group medical director.Dr Needham-Bennett is currently medical director and consultant general & forensic psychiatrist at...

A Court of Appeal ruling last month could have consequences for how much the NHS contributes towards nurses in care homes.As the Department of...

Bupa has appointed Simon Blair and Janet Voûte to its Board as non-executive directors.

In his final report on NHS hospitals, Lord Carter has called for action to be taken on the ‘major problem’ of delayed transfers of...

Josh Farrer has joined SureCare as franchise sales manager.Son of managing director Gary Farrer, he will be leading a major new recruitment drive to...

Not-for-profit care home operator Anchor Trust reported a 1.5% rise in revenues for the year ended 31 March 2015 from £265.8m to £269.8m. Of this figure, £122.4m was from care home fees (2014: £121.9m) and £140m generated from retirement housing rents (2014: £134.9m). After deducting operating costs of £258.1m (2014: £247.5m), Anchor had an operating surplus of £11.7m, significantly less than the previous year’s £18.3m. The surplus for its retirement housing decreased by £1.5m to £28.2m (2014: £29.7m) with increased income from housing rent being offset by higher property maintenance costs, and higher depreciation costs. Its care homes, however, recorded an operating deficit of £0.2m, a decrease of £0.4m on 2014’s surplus of £0.2m.

Compared to other countries such as New Zealand and the USA, historically the UK has lagged behind when it comes to providing appropriate accommodation for older people – and especially older people’s housing-with-care.

Care home group Minster Care Management reported a 9.5% rise in revenues from £25.4m to £27.8m for the year end 31 March 2015.Cost of...