Move into extra care market proves fruitful for Ashley House

Ashley House posted positive preliminary results for the year ending 30 April 2013, indicating its strategy to extend its reach further into the social...

PMLD guides launched

Mencap and the PMLD Network have launched a series of how-to guides and films to help local commissioners and service providers better meet the...

Cambridge and Peterborough adults services contract delayed

The tendering process to provide a range of health and care services adults and older people’s services in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough – a contract...

Younger adults services weather council cuts storm

Spending on frontline services for working-age adults with learning disabilities has largely been sheltered in the midst of swingeing council cuts to adult social...

Revenues up at Cornwall Care

Care home operator Cornwall Care Limited reported a 10.8% increase in turnover for the year ended 31 December 2012. In total, the charity had...

Cornish PLD commissioning flawed

Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly Primary Care Trust failed to conduct transparent decision-making in its commissioning of learning disability services, according to a...

Bupa launches dental health plan to small businesses

Bupa has made its dental health plan available to SME, corporate and individual customers. Routine dental care carried out at Bupa Dental Centres, such...

Engage Mutual slips deeper into loss

Health cash plan provider Engage Mutual sank deeper into loss last year as its results for the year ending 31 December 2012 show, though...

Lasercare profits rise despite growth fall

Lasercare Clinics, the cosmetic skin treatment provider which trades under the name Sk:n, in the year to 31 August 2012, saw turnover fall slightly...

Cash plans slide halts

The number of contributors to health cash plans in the UK was flat in 2012, rising by 0.1% to reach 2.6m at the start...