Care Markets

Life Style Care plc has revealed it invested £4.25m to bring the 22 Southern Cross it acquired in November 2011 up to standard.At the...

More needs to be done by local authorities in Wales to engage with the care home market, according to a report from the Welsh...

August Equity announced last month that it had acquired Compass Services for Children Group for £18m to support the organic growth of the business. Compass,...

The proporation of delayed discharges from England’s hospitasl due to a lack of a suitable social care placement has reduced in the past 12 months. Figures for December 2012 released by the Department of Health showed that of the 107,631 total delayed transfers of care for the month, just over one quarter were attributable to the social care sector with 6.5% caused by both the NHS and the social care sector. Delays attributable to social care, howev er, have decreased by 4,624 days since December 2011 and now account for 26.6% of all delayed days, compared to 29.7% in December 2011.

Ark Healthcare Holdings Ltd, the home care and home healthcare provider, reported an increase in revenue for the year ending 31 March 2012 but...

The British Red Cross revealed last month that almost two thirds of councillors believe that their local authority had cut or frozen funding for...

Revenues at domiciliary care provider City and County rose by 52% to £55.3m from £36.2m for the year ended 31 March 2012.Operating profit increased...

The Sanctuary Group’s care home arm reported a turnover of £64.8m for the year ended 31 March 2012, an increase of 9.6% on the...

Bupa is planning to create the country’s first ‘teaching’ dementia care home, new chief executive Stuart Fletcher has revealed.The facility will conduct research into...

Chairman of Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals Foundation Trust. David Prior, has been named chair of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) replaciing Dame Jo...