Care Markets

Bupa UK achieved revenues of £2,711.2m for the year ended 31 December 2014, compared to £2,573.5m the previous year. The provident association reported an underlying profit for its UK operations, which includes its 280 care homes, of £175m (2013: £139.5m) in its preliminary results.

Care Homes: Ian Smith, chairman of Four Seasons Health Care Group

Voyage Care has acquired two autism services for an undisclosed sum. Nottinghamshire-based Redcliffe House, which provides services for people with complex needs, will now...

Surrey county council’s cabinet has approved the closure of six care homes in the area that provide residential care, respite, daycare and reablement services.Brockhurst...

York council has abandoned plans to build two care homes as it can no longer find anyone to develop them at a price it...

Local authority commissioners should consider allowing providers to be more flexible in how they use the contracted time when providing homecare services, according to...

A $100m (£68m) Dementia Discovery Fund was announced at the World’s Health Organisation’s First Ministerial Conference on Global Action Against Dementia last month to...

The House of Commons health select committee has ‘strongly recommended’ that the government provide free social care at the end of life. In its latest...

In the latest push to move mental health, learning disability and autism services away from institutional settings, the Department of Health has published a...

Older people do experience positive benefits from using personal budgets but they are not as pronounced as with other age groups, a new report...