MPs call for end to ‘confused system’
Community Care Market News (News) February 1999 The Health Select Committee of the House of Commons has concluded its investigation into the...
Leading doctors call for substantial investment in intermediate care
Community Care Market News (News) December 2001 Intermediate care must not be seen as a cheap option for patient care, GP bodies...
Round-up of selected new developments, openings and closures
Community Care Market News (News) October 2004 Cornwall Care has added a specialist dementia wing to one of its eighteen homes. The...
National Service Framework for older people published
Community Care Market News (News) April 2001 The government has published its long-awaited National Service Framework for Older People (NSF) setting out...
Shortage of care home places is main cause of delayed discharges
Community Care Market News (News) March 2003 Primary care trusts (PCTs) and social services need to develop better relationships with independent care...
Care network to encourage partnership
Community Care Market News (News) November 2002 The Department of Health and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister have launched an...
Personal care key issue in election debate
Community Care Market News (News) May 2001 As the politicians presented their manifestos for the coming election, independent providers and organisations campaigning...
NHS-funded nursing care changes
Community Care Market News (News) March 2004 The DoH is to freeze the lowest band of NHS-funded nursing care funding in a...
Two-thirds of English MPs believe there aren’t enough quality care homes for constituents
Two-thirds of England MPs, including just over half of Conservative MPs and 82% Labour MPs, agree that there aren’t enough ‘high-quality’ care homes for older...
Winners and losers in fee rate negotiations
Community Care Market News (News) July 2003 Community Care Market News' annual survey of baseline fee rates paid by local authorities for...