Call for end to inconsistency on standards
Community Care Market News (News) May 1998The Better Regulation Task Force, an independent advisory body set up by the Chancellor of the Duchy of...
Means test confusion leads to overpayment
Community Care Market News (News) May 1998A new report published by Joseph Rowntree Foundation has discovered that some older people are making a greater...
Independent sector provides 44% of local authority home care
Community Care Market News (News) May 1998Figures on community care in England published this month by the Department of Health in a statistical bulletin,...
Vulnerable people deserve a better deal say Audit Commission
Community Care Market News (News) May 1998Housing authorities are struggling to cope with changing and rising demand, according to a report published this month...
Partnership must be way forward
Community Care Market News (News) May 1998Speaking at Laing & Buisson's conference on inter agency collaboration last month, Under Secretary of State for Health...
Royal Commission submissions
Community Care Market News (News) May 1998A number of organisations have this month published their submissions to the Royal Commission on the Long Term...
CCC updates residential contract
Community Care Market News (News) May 1998The Continuing Care Conference (CCC) has published the second edition of its framework contract between residential care providers...
Minister blocks Fresenius/Caremark merger
Community Care Market News (News) May 1998Nigel Griffiths, Competition and Consumer Affairs Minister, has announced that he has decided not to permit the acquisition...
Local authority can take property into account
Community Care Market News (News) May 1998South Lanarkshire council has won a judicial review which questioned its decision to charge an elderly woman for...
Opportunities in French market
Community Care Market News (News) May 1998New business opportunities are emerging in the market for the provision of elderly care facilities in France, according...
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