HMT moves forward with hospital sell off

The Healthcare Management Trust, which operates two private hospitals and four care homes, reiterated its plans to move away from healthcare and further into...

Bupa OH shows top line growth

Bupa Occupational Health Limited, in its annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2012, showed top line growth due to health...

Marginal healthcare growth for Care UK

Care UK Health and Social Care holdings, the diversified healthcare outsourcing company, reported a 9.4% increase in group turnover to £487.5m for the year...

Private sector fights for £5bn NHS work

Private sector companies are engaged in an ’gold rush’ to stake their claim to £5bn of NHS work being tendered including hospitals, mental healthcare,...

Profit boost for Glen Care

Glen Care, which provides residential care for mentally ill people, reported an increase in profits for the year ending 31 July 2012.It experienced growth...

Wales carries on spending

Last month Statistics for Wales released budgeted spending by local authorities for financial year 2013/14. Looking at the numbers, one might be forgiven for...

Home stop eats into Life Style turnover

Life Style Care Plc, one of the three companies trading under the Life Style brand, recorded a drop in revenues of 10% in the...

A quarter of social workers admit to exaggerating older people’s needs

More than one in four social workers have admitted to exaggerating older people’s disabilities to ensure that they qualified for local authority support in...

Constable new chief executive at Tracscare

Paul Constable has taken over the helm at specialist care provider Tracscare. He was previously managing director (operations) at Leonard Cheshire Disability, with responsibility...

More satisfaction in residential care

People in residential care are significantly more satisfied than those receiving homecare services. This is one of the key provisional findings from the latest...