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Providing better outcomes for older people in a new era of austerity is one of the great challenges facing social care businesses in the years ahead. Jennifer Roberts looks at potential ways forward for independent providers in the latest Caring for your Business newsletter. The newsletter, published monthly, also looks at: How cuts are ‘killing’ [...]

Providing better outcomes for older people in a new era of austerity is one of the great challenges facing social care businesses in the years ahead. Jennifer Roberts looks at potential ways forward for independent providers THERE’S no doubt about it. Social care providers are entering a period of great uncertainty – perhaps the most [...]

By Jennifer Roberts www.caringforyourbusiness.co.uk AS local authorities juggle their budgets in the aftermath of the Spending Review, there will be opportunities for Britain’s home care providers to grow their business. In the light of changes that will be happening across the UK, it is worth looking at some of the opportunities that are likely to [...]

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A new scheme to help small companies, charities and voluntary organisations compete for billions of pounds worth of contracts has been unveiled by the Coalition Government. It has announced a number of key measures to prevent small business owners and organisations being shut out of procurement processes because of excessive bureaucracy and petty regulation. They [...]

By Jenny Roberts Caring for your Business is often asked by care providers to identify opportunities to develop their business. Anyone in the home care sector who watched the Channel 4 Dispatches programme Secret NHS Diaries would have seen three people experiencing their final journey in life in three different settings – a hospital, in [...]

By Jennifer Roberts IN ALL areas of our lives we have become more aware of our rights. Perhaps, more importantly, we are pursuing those rights through complaining, whether it’s about poor service, bad food, bad advice or services and products not meeting our expectations. It is no different In health and social care. Gone are [...]

by Jennifer Roberts IT WOULD appear that everywhere we look a transformation of one kind or another is taking place. Change can be positive and sometimes very necessary to help us improve, achieve and become creative. But it can also make us feel insecure and uncomfortable whilst we try to make sense of the implications [...]