Care Markets

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...

MPs published the Education Committee’s Sixth Report of Session 2013-14 on Residential Children’s Homes last month which outlined when it is appropriate to refuse...

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...

There are ‘huge opportunities’ in the care sector for investors according to director of researching and forecasting at Colliers, Walter Boettcher, speaking at the...

Trish Lee has joined Embrace (formerly European Care) as chief executive. Ms Lee previously spent nearly six years as chief executive of Nuffield Health’s...

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 2013, Ms Mitchell was director general at Age UK, where she spearheaded work on social care, health and patient engagement.