Care Markets

The Somerset Care Group has appointed Dr Jane Townson as chief executive. Dr Townson has been a non-executive director of the care home operator...

A radical shake up of the commissioning structure is needed in order to integrate health and social care, according to The King’s Fund. Following up on the Barker Commission’s report (CCMn October 2014), its latest publication recommends that all areas of the country work towards having a single local commissioner and one budget for health and social care by 2020.

The gap between local authority care home fee rates for older people and the costs of care places in real terms will widen once...

The residential care capacity in the specialist care sector is on a slowly declining trend as councils opt for supported living wherever possible, LaingBuisson...

Awareness of the care cap among over 50s, to be introduced next year, has dropped since 2013, according to new research from Saga. It...

A report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has found that improvements are needed in 24-hour support for people having a mental health crisis...

Combining health, social care and housing services for older people can cut NHS costs by more than a third, according to a three-year study...

A cap on long-term care costs was orginally intended to stimulate the stagnant insurance market and secure the foundations for tighter financial security in...

Prior to its acquisition by Formation Capital, Safanad and Court Cavendish (CCMn November 2014), HC-One reported revenues of £314.6m for the year ended 30...

A recent survey by ComRes on behalf of the Local Government Association found that three quarters of MPs agree that social care funding from...