CM Special Report

Like many other organisations in the UK, the care sector relies on overseas skilled-workers to help service the population’s health and care needs.

Registering patients with GPs is increasingly becoming a problem for mental health hospitals. Andrew Parsons, partner at RadcliffesLeBrasseur investigates Many independent mental health hospitals registered with...

Bursting onto the scene less than 18 months ago, The Good Care Group is a high-end homecare company which has set out to offer as wide a portfolio of support services as possible in a bid to capture a growing market of people who would rather not move out of their own homes.

Last month saw the biggest shake up of the country’s major long term care providers for well over a decade, with the reassignment of care facilities formerly run by Southern Cross Healthcare leading to considerable changes among independent companies working in the sector.

Partnership announced last month that sales of care annuities increased for quarter one of 2014 compared to quarter one of 2013.

The Budget in July delivered an unanticipated blow to social care providers. The introduction of a compulsory living wage rising to £9 in 2019 means a real-terms increase of about 50% over four years to bottom-line staff costs where employees are paid the minimum wage. Providers who currently pay above the minimum may not be able to continue to do so. This may affect recruitment and retention.

Investing in care - CCMn meets Sovereign Capital partner Dominic Dalli

Employers running care homes may be forced to increase their wage bills for 'sleep-in' workers in line with National Minimum Wage Regulations (NMW) following recent decisions by the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT). It's common practice in the care sector to pay workers a fixed fee for 'sleep-in' night shifts instead of a higher hourly rate. However, following the recent decisions of Esparon v Slavikovska and Whittlestone v BJP Home Support, these workers may now be entitled to NMW for the duration of these shifts.

By ECCA chief executive, Martin Green

Care home investor Target Healthcare REIT Limited announced the acquisition of a portfolio of three modern, purpose-built care homes for £13.9m