Care Markets

Responding to calls for increased accountability in the wake of the Winterbourne View (CCMn July 2011) and Mid Staffordshire scandals, Care Minister Norman Lamb has launched a consultation on proposals for directors of independent sector companies in charge of care homes and hospitals that allow neglect and abuse to take place to be held personally and criminally accountable for failures in care.

NHS Property Services (NHS PS), the company set up to look after properties which used to be owned by primary care trusts, and Community Health Partnerships (CHP), the company established to look after LIFT companies, the joint ventures between public and private providers of primary and social care services, are to merge in 2015.

Affinity Care Homes, the specialist care services manager, has acquired the Royal Buckinghamshire Hospital (RBH) in Aylesbury for an undisclosed sum.

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 response to councils raising their eligibility threshold for financial support.

Social care looks set to reap substantial benefit from the £3.8bn settlement for 2015/16 announced in last month’s comprehensive spending review, though one of...

Charity Mencap announced last month that it raised £10m to fund permanent homes for people with learning disabilities. Its housing service, Golden Lane Housing, launched...

The introduction of a national eligibility criteria for social care service users could cost councils around £23m, according to The Personal Social Services Research...

Health Care REIT has announced that it has completed the final phase of its acquisition of Sunrise Senior Living’s property portfolio. The £4.3bn deal includes...

Healthcare and care assistants should get best practice training and earn a Certificate of Fundamental Care before they can care for people unsupervised, according...

Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II has acquired Myriad Healthcare’s Caring Homes portfolio in a sale and leaseback agreement for £298.5m. Under the terms of the agreement,...