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Rig Medical Recruitment’s results for the year ending 31 December 2011 show plummeting operating profits and a fall in turnover.

The London Orthopaedic Clinic has welcomed Dr Deane Halfpenny to itsWimpole Street premises. Dr Halfpenny is a consultant in musculoskeletal pain medicine with experience and specialist knowledge in particular areas of expertise including spinal pain and injury, acute back, neck and shoulder pain, myofascial pain syndromes and neuropathic pain.

The Department of Health (DH) is to consult on new controls for large care providers to prevent another Southern Cross scenario.

Conwy county council and North Wales Housing are developing a £8.6m extra care housing scheme on the site of a former care home in Abergele. Hafod y Parc will feature 49 one and two bedroomed apartments and will offer independent living with care, designed to cater for the needs of each individual. Business development director at North Wales Housing, Phil Danson, said: There is a clear need in North Wales for more extra care housing that allows people to sustain an independent lifestyle with peace of mind through a care option. Extra care housing facilitates this need and we are pleased to be able to announce plans to develop a second scheme of this nature in North Wales.’

Making the best of dementia care services and preparing for future challenges

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a complaint over a BMI Healthcare advert which read BMI Healthcare - the consultants' choice’.

Bupa Occupational Health, the occupational health and screening services arm of Britain’s largest medical insurer recorded a loss in its report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2011.

Peter O’Donnell, senior vice president and chief financial officer (CFO) of Unum UK, has been named to replace Jack McGarry as president and CEO. Mr McGarry is to return to the US to manage the company’s closed block of business.

The battered reputation of England’s domiciliary care services took another hit last month thanks to a BBC investigation and a scathing report from public sector union Unison.

High Court judges have ruled partially in favour of a group of care home providers in Devon over the county council’s elderly care fee levels for the 2012/13 financial year.