South Tyneside PCT rolls out new health centre

Work has begun on a new £8.5m state-of-the-art health centre for South Tyneside as part of the council’s first moves to bring health and...

Expansion at Healthcare Homes

Healthcare Homes Group, the company formed last summer by three former-members of Care UK’s senior management(CCMN August/September 2005), has appointed Lisa Clough to its...

FSHC promotion

Four Seasons Health Care has promoted former estates team member Roger Poynton to the role of group estates manager where he will take greater...

New adult services director at East Riding

Andrew Williams has been appointed as the new director of children, family and adult services at East Riding of Yorkshire council and is set...

Corporate expansion at Chandler & Co

Care sector financiers Chandler & Co have announced two key appointments in a move that increases the company’s healthcare expertise just months after it...

Charity establishes centre

Sue Ryder Care, the charitable provider of palliative and neurologically-focused care, has opened a Centre for Palliative and End of Life Studies in Nottingham...

Four Seasons wins intermediate contract

Darlington Primary Care Trust (PCT) has awarded Four Seasons Health Care a £1.1m contract to provide specialist intermediate and respite care in one of...

BME healthcare access study

A major study examining access to healthcare among black and minority ethnic (BME) groups has been launched by think tank the King’s Fund. The...

Private equity tax fears

The threat of higher tax for business managers and their private equity fund investors has abated, at least for the moment.The healthcare sector has...

Barchester greenlights multi-million pound expansion

In conjunction with the high profile rebranding exercise that will fully amalgamate the homes it acquired when it bought out Westminster Health Care in...