Care Markets

Community Care Market News (News) June 1998 Turning Point has announced the closure of its residential drug rehabilitation centre in Hackney, East...

Community Care Market News (News) March 2004 The government has published its Guidance on Access and Systems Capacity Grant 2004/05 and the...

Saga announced yesterday that it is set to proceed with an initial public offering (IPO) and float on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The share offer will include an opportunity for private investors in the UK, Channel Islands and Isle of Man to apply for Saga shares.

Community Care Market News (News) August 2001 More than a quarter of all acute hospital beds occupied by the over-75s in Berkshire...

Private care homes have the capacity to support hard-pressed acute hospitals in winter. This is because private care homes are busier in summer than in winter. More than five times as many people accessed short-stay services in a Bupa care home in June than any other month of the year. This is usually to give family carers a break, or for older people to use them to recuperate after illness or treatments. 68% of people who selected a Bupa care home for a short stay, did so for May and June. Yet few short-stay admissions are made to care homes during the winter months according to Bupa research despite this being the period when the NHS is often under greatest stress from flu, winter bugs’ and bad weather injuries. Bupa argues therefore that there is capacity for care homes to take more of the winter stress and relieve the burden on hard-pressed NHS hospitals, and that commissioners could take more advantage of short-stay care as an option throughout the year. Managing director of Bupa Care Services, Andrew Cannon said: Greater integration of the health and social care systems can have real benefits for the NHS and for patients. Care homes can help to ease the seasonal pressure on acute hospital beds by providing responsive and flexible short-stay care. Avoiding unnecessary admissions and supporting earlier discharges from hospitals would save money for the NHS and ease people back into their own homes faster.’

Community Care Market News (News) May 2001 A new influx of independent financial advisers will boost the number of long term care...

About to embark on a massive project which will see his company join the Saga Group (CCMn August/September 2011), Allied healthcare head Sandy Young told delegates at Laing & Buisson’s Investing in Healthcare conference that the demographics, increasing acuity of needs in home-based care, the emergence of lower cost models and the expansion of consumer choice all present exciting opportunities for providers.

Community Care Market News (News) March 1999 Plans to introduce annual tables to monitor and publish the performance of social services departments...

Community Care Market News (News) October 2002 Scottish Care is to meet with the Scottish Executive and the Convention of Scottish Local...

Community Care Market News (News) February 2003 The Department of Health (DoH) has published a report of the findings from the second...