Care Markets

Insurance provider Partnership announced five steps to help develop the UK insurance market to serve people with long term care needs, alongside the ABI...

The number of people receiving state support for care fell by 9% during 2012/13, according to the latest figures from the Health and Social...

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is to develop guidelines and quality standards on service user experience of social care, the...

Care workers in Glasgow city council's residential homes went on strike last month after claiming that council changes would see pay cuts of around...

Care minister Norman Lamb has indicated that people who do not meet the highest eligibility criteria may still get some state-funded help. As the Care...

London local authority has been penalised by the Local Government Ombudsman after the council ignored the family’s choice of care home.The complaint centered on...

A new draft of the fundamental standards for care providers could see the Care Quality Commission (CQC) given the power to prosecute operators without...

Leicester city council’s plan to introduce a fostering service for its elderly residents has been criticised by the local branch of Age UK. The scheme, which is operated by Shared Lives Plus and regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), will see elderly people live with local families who are paid to care for them. Leicestershire Age UK told the Leicester Mercury that the scheme should be approached with a degree of caution as it would involve placing potentially vulnerable people in homes with strangers. However, assistant city mayor for adult social care, Rita Patel, argued: It's not suitable for everybody but for people who want to be in a family environment, who want to be taken care of on an individual basis, it's a fantastic scheme.’

Four Seasons Health Care, which is owned by private equity firm Terra Firma, announced that it has appointed Tim Hammond chief executive of its...

MITIE Group PLC, a strategic outsourcing company, announced that it has acquired Complete Care Holdings Limited one of the UK's leading complex care companies,...