Care Markets

Managing director of Marches Care, Mandy Thorn has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s birthday honours. Ms Thorn, who is also one of...

The Priory Group of companies has appointed Tom Muir to the newly-created role of group director of corporate affairs. He was previously head of...

CCMn meets David Pearson, who took on the leadership of the Association of Directors of Adult Socical Services earlier this year to find out...

Care UK and Metnor Construction have started work on a £7.5m care home in Cringleford, Norfolk. The 80-bed home will offer residential, nursing and specialist...

Official figures have shown that service users are more satisfied in residential care than remaining at home. Despite the push towards domiciliary care by the...

Bedford borough council and South Essex Partnership University Trust been fined for inappropriately caring for a man with mental health issues in his own...

Hot on the heels of the publication of the new fundamental standards (CCMn July 2014), Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced that from April 2015 care providers who treat vulnerable people without dignity and respect will be put in special measures’.

Official figures have shown that service users are more satisfied in residential care than remaining at home. Despite the push towards domiciliary care by the government and many local authorities, the Health and Social Care Information Service’s (HSCIC) annual Adult Social Care Survey found that 72% of service users were extremely or very satisfied with their residential care.

Bedford borough council and South Essex Partnership University Trust been fined for inappropriately caring for a man with mental health issues in his own home after officers became fixated on the man’s wishes to live independently’. A joint investigation by the Local Government Ombudsman Dr Jane Martin and the Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman Julie Mellor found the paranoid schizophrenia sufferer was malnourished and had poor dental health because professionals did not properly assess whether he had the capacity to make decisions for himself.

CCMn meets David Pearson, who took on the leadership of the Association of Directors of Adult Socical Services earlier this year to find out what his plans are during his presidency.