Care Markets

Alternative Futures Group has appointed Sharon Hanner as an autism specialist in order to further help those it supports with the condition. Most recently,...

Chief executive of the MS Society Michelle Mitchell has joined the board of trustees at The King’s Fund. Before joining the MS Society in...

Derbyshire county council has ended its contract with Housing & Care 21 to build 800 extra care apartments after the operator withdrew from the...

East Anglian-based care provider Healthcare Homes has appointed Michele Eaton as a compliance officer. She will work closely to ensure standards are in place...

Four Season Health Care’s specialist care business The Huntercombe Group has appointed Valerie Michie as its new chief executive. Currently managing director of Serco...

Four Seasons Health Care and Bupa’s care homes division – both of which are mainly funded by local authority placements – have reported drops...

Linda Robinson has been appointed chief executive of Age Northern Ireland. She will head the charity which supports more than 30,000 older people by...

Four Seasons Health Care and Bupa’s care homes division – both of which are mainly funded by local authority placements – have reported drops in profits in their latest sets of accounts, with earnings falling way behind self-pay providers such as Barchester Healthcare. The results will give yet another warning to both local authorities and central government that continuing investment in care home services could be at severe risk in locations dominated by public pay, and that any further squeeze on margins could even threaten the maintenance of basic standards by those providers which are unable to rely on cross subsidies from private payers to deliver adequate operating margins.

The projected £2.5bn annual cost of implementing the Dilnot fee cap has been underestimated by the treasury by around £150m a year according to consultancy Candesic.

St Andrews announced today that Gil Baldwin is to take over as chief executive of the mental health charity in July following the departure of Professor Philip Sugarman earlier this year. Mr Baldwin is currently advising the UK Government in relation to its G8 commitments on dementia. His background includes military service working all over the world including the Balkans and Iraq where he helped to re-establish civil societies and the underpinning infrastructure. He then joined Aviva, where he became managing director of Aviva Health. Following this he became chief executive of Tunstall which provides services which enable people with healthcare needs to remain living independently in their own homes.