Care Home Professional managing director Rob Corder shares the top five things he has learnt about the sector this year. Delayed transfer of elderly people
Corder's Column
Following the CQC’s damning assessment of the state of the care home sector last month, there are signs that the penny is finally to begin to drop that we can’t go on like this. While
I live in Bedfordshire, a middle class county that is home to the multi-cultural Luton in the West and the almost entirely white working and
The Government is sleepwalking towards a situation in residential elderly care where available rooms will all but vanish for local authority funded people in some parts of the country. The biggest operators are scrambling to
Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary wants to kick the private sector out of running care homes. The Labour party’s Shadow Health Secretary, Andy Burnham, is hoping to
In November last year, the CQC endured unwelcome headlines because its inspectors were accused in The Times as “routinely staying in luxury rooms costing up to £240
The word crisis is over-used that it has lost almost all of its punch. However, if a trusted institution like BBC Radio Four uses the word alongside supposed facts about the care home industry's £4 billion
Alistair Burt MP, the Minister of State for Community and Social Care at the Department of Health, has declined an interview with Care Home Professional,
Schools inspector Ofsted provides a useful comparison tool that allows parents to search for the best schools in their local area. The Care Quality Commission
The Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change has published a challenging paper analysing the financial structures of the biggest five care home operators in the UK. Its report: Where does the money go? Financialised chains
