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Profits down for Somerset Care
Somerset Care experienced a small drop in revenues from £80.8m to £80.1m for the year ended 31 March 2015.
After subtracting cost of sales of...
Mears care business still facing challenging times
In a trading update to the London Stock Exchange last month, Mears Group reported that trading remains challenging for its care business.
Introduction of living wage to cost £387m per year – JRF
The National Living Wage (NLW) will affect at least 50% of care home workers when it is introduced in April 2016, according to new...
Aurelius Group acquires Allied Healthcare for £19m
After almost a year on the market, pan-European investor Aurelius Group has acquired Allied Healthcare, the UK’s largest domiciliary care provider, for £19m.Under the...
Surge in social care complaints to LGO
The Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) has reported an 18% increase in complaints and enquiries about adult social care in the past year.
In 2014/15 LGO...
Access for mental health patients must improve – IMHSA
Independent mental health providers are calling on NHS England to take decisive action on payment and service integration to make parity of esteem a...
Osborne leaves councils to plug social care funding gap
The care sector was left largely disappointed by the contents of George Osborne’s Spending Review last month.
In terms of plugging the funding gap for...
Advanced Health & Care explains how its mobile solution Caresys Mobile is enhancing the...
Care home provider, Fairways Care (Fairways), will increase efficiencies and further enhance care standards after selecting Caresys Mobile, a care management solution from Advanced...
PAC raises concerns over Care Act
The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has concluded that government ‘has not been sufficiently open and transparent’ on the burdens imposed on...
ICO guidance on data protection in care homes: Phillippa Doyle, associate at Hempsons, looks...
Residents and employees have a right to privacy, which includes keeping their personal information confidential, only accessed by authorised people and only shared when...
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