Following Chancellor Philip Hammond’s Autumn Statement debacle, where social care didn’t even get a mention, the government has finally responded to the growing tsunami of
Corder's Column
It’s been a month of contrasting fortunes for care home providers across the country as cost and regulatory pressures create an increasingly polarised two-tier sector. In the top tier, February saw a string of homes
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
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 from hospital to care homes hurts everybody except hospitals. Governments
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
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 turn the clock back in Greater Manchester to the days
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
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, although we promise to keep trying. The minister’s team responded
