Care Markets

Following the Care Quality Commission (CQC) branding mental health crisis care ‘inadequate’ (CCMn February 2014), police, mental health trusts and paramedics have signed a...

Chairman and interim chief executive of Four Seasons Health Care Ian Smith has called on councils to work with the government regulator to ensure...

The Court of Protection ruled has that a dementia sufferer, who was admitted to a care home under the Mental Health Act, can go...

Radical changes to community services are needed to realise the ambition of moving more care out of hospital and closer to people’s homes, according...

Further US finance is flowing into the care sector after Wall Street investment firm Anchorage Capital Group took a majority stake in New Century...

Secretary of state for Health, Jeremy Hunt announced details of a £90m package to improve dementia diagnosis in the UK and ensure two thirds...

The Low Pay Commission recommended an increase in the National Minimum Wage (NMW) of 3% in a move that is set to put even...

Craegmoor, part of the Priory Group of Companies, has acquired specialist residential care and support provider New Directions for an undisclosed sum.New Directions specialises...

Eildon Housing Association has opened a £7.9m development, half of which will be an extra care scheme. Dovecot Court, which has been constructed in partnership...

A report by the Independent Commission on Whole Person Care called for a radical new approach’ to rework the health and social care system over the next Parliament. The publication, which was commissioned by the Labour party, said, at the moment, 70% of the health and social care budget is spent on older people with long term conditions.