Care Markets

Public service union Unison has branded Nottinghamshire council’s plans to sell off its residential care housing stock to private operator Runwood Homes as a massive scandal’.

Homecare provider Sevacare (UK) Ltd has reported another year of strong growth with turnover up 43% to £7.4m (2009: £3m) and bottom line profits exceeding the £1m mark for the first time.

New adult social care policies were unveiled by all three main political parties at their respective party conferences last month.

Jane Mordue has been appointed as the chair of Healthwatch England and as a non-executive CQC board member. She has held both of these positions...

After carrying out 40 unannounced inspections of hospitals and care homes looking after people with learning disabilities in a post-Winterbourne blitz’, the government regulator has concluded that service users are often not at the centre of their own care.

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

Care home interests in Birmingham have this month been scrutinising the Open Book Accounting 2 Report’ released by KPMG on 31 May, with its highly detailed analysis the actual cost of providing care home services for older people and younger adults in England’s second city. Based on a survey of care providers with a response rate varying from 25% to 32%, there are some interesting numbers, but no big surprises.

More people in residential care are satisfied with the service they get compared to those who receive domiciliary care, according to an extensive government survey of care service users.

Community Care Market News (News) October 2004 Care providers have warned that jobs in the sector are at risk, following the latest...

Care services minister Liam Byrne has said that the launch of a pilot scheme which hands elderly and disabled people the keys to individual budgets for care will herald a new era of sector stimulation for independent providers.