Chai Patel, founder of HC-One, the UK’s third largest care home provider has stepped down from his position as chief executive. Dr Patel who founded HC-One in 2011, will continue as chairman of HC-One. Justin Hutchens has been appointed as the provider’s new chief executive. He has spent his twenty-three year career in the healthcare sector in the United States and will be joining HC-One on 1 June 2017 from HCP Inc. where he was president and previously executive vice-preside

More than 90,000 European care workers in the UK are living in limbo, none the wiser about how they will be affected by Brexit. Here are some of their stories Article 50 has been triggered, beginning the countdown to the UK’s exit from the European Union. Yet none of the 92,000 EU nationals working in the care sector here are any the wiser as to how it will affect them. So far, Theresa May has refused to guarantee the rights of approximately 3.3 million EU nationals currently

A CARE agency in Swindon has confirmed it is struggling to recruit new workers after it was revealed more than 900 carers in England are quitting per day. This week figures were released that showed more than 338,000 care workers in England left their jobs last year – equivalent to more than 900 a day. Low pay and the presumption that the job has no long-term career prospects have been cited as factors that have put off potential carers. Coun Brian Ford, Swindon Borough Counc

At least 25 residents were evacuated from a care home after a large fire tore through the property. Seven were taken to hospital, two in a serious condition, after the fire at Standon House Care Home in Tamworth, Staffordshire, on Saturday night. The fire was accidental, caused by "poorly discarded smoking materials," Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service said. All residents were moved to alternative accommodation, police said. About 20 firefighters were sent to the property,

Scotland's care homes are facing growing staff shortages, according to a survey of care providers. Figures released by Scottish Care suggest three quarters of homes (77%) have vacancies. Almost nine in 10 (89%) of care at home and housing support services had positions lying empty. The Scottish government said it was committed to raising the status of carers and developing new models of care provision. Scottish Care, which represents independent care providers, said staffing

Competition and Markets Authority finds families have been charged fees for ‘extended periods’ after death of residents Care homes are charging families for weeks after the death of an elderly relative in some instances, prompting a string of complaints to the competition watchdog that is investigating the sector. The Competition and Markets Authority has received complaints about families being charged for sums that can amount to thousands of pounds to cover for the time it

A centralised, free-at-the-point-of-use NHS and council-run, means-tested social care aren’t working together – and patients are paying the price. Neil Kinnock was on the radio at the weekend, talking about his hero Aneurin Bevan with the journalist Matthew Parris and one of Bevan’s biographers, John Campbell. Any conversation about Bevan’s life is mostly about the NHS and so it was this time, too. But it was a useful reminder of how, among all the battles fought over its cre