Onerous Pre-placement contracts – fight or flight?
Whether you are a care home operator or run a homecare (or similar) business, if you are caring for service users funded by social services your Contract (pre-placement agreement setting out the overarching terms on which care services are to be provided) with commissioners of Social Care is a vital document Read more
Buying a care home - what you need to know
There is a lot more to owning a care home than simply being a good Nurse or Doctor or having successfully run another type of business. The skills you will be required to acquire overnight will include selling, management, and staff selection skills, not forgetting business planning, cash flow forecasting and client care. Read more
More Powers for Care Quality Commission
More powers for CQC: The Government has announced that it plans to give The Care Quality Commission (CQC) powers to inspect the finances of large care providers in a bid to avoid a repeat of the sort of collapse witnessed with Southern Cross. Read more