LaingBuisson comments on overseas patients market
Speaking to the Financial Times, LaingBuisson consultant Ted Townsend has said that Cleveland Clinics entrance in the London market is unlikely to relieve pressure on the NHS, rather it extends the capital's ability to provide services to patients from overseas. Read the full FT story...
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Complex care market looking ‘broadly positive’ in latest LaingBuisson analysis
Prospects for adult specialist care operators - at least those positioned at the complex end of the spectrum - remain broadly positive, according to LaingBuisson’s latest report, Adult Specialist Care - second edition. This is despite the austerity-driven real terms decline in adult specialist care...
NHS and councils must ‘develop different relationship’
LaingBuisson Chairman Stephen Dorrell has told the Communities and Local Government Committee that the continuing crisis in social care will only be addressed once a new style of relationship is developed between health services and local councils. Speaking in his role as chair of NHS...
LaingBuisson’s DfE report published
The Department for Education has published a major study carried out by LaingBuisson on developing the capacity and diversity of provision of children’s services in England. The report, available here, was written in the context of notable high profile failures in children’s services, and in...
LaingBuisson’s Care Cost Benchmark figure informs CLG Committee
LaingBuissons' Care Cost Benchmark research has been cited by Four Seasons Health Care head Tim Hammond in the current House of Commons Health Select Committee hearing looking into health and care funding. According to The Guardian, members of the Commons committee have been told that...
Stephen Dorrell quoted on health funding
Britain must stop “fetishising” the NHS budget and give more taxpayers’ money to councils, one of the health service’s leaders has said. The political mantra of protecting the NHS is damaging the health service because hospitals are used as an expensive way to look after...
FT Adviser uses LaingBuisson data in retirement planning feature
Nobody likes to think of the prospect of requiring regular healthcare assistance in later life, yet the cost of care can be substantial if one has not prepared for it. The average cost of a being in a care home varies from area to area,...
LaingBuisson data used in BBC cost of care analysis
As we live longer, many of us will need support in our old age. But few of us know how much an hour of homecare costs, or the fees charged in residential and nursing homes, and whether the local council will help foot the bill....
Sunday Express takes LaingBuisson fees survey to spotlight lack of funding
Writing in the Sunday Express today, Lucy Johnstone uses findings published in the latest edition of the LaingBuisson's Care Market's Annual Survey of UK Local Authority Usual Costs to discuss the impact of reduced social care funding on people living with dementia. Extrapolating that councils are...
BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours on LaingBuisson’s Homecare report
Care providers are deserting the council-funded homecare market because of increasing costs and the level of fees paid by some local authorities. That's according to analysts LaingBuisson which has just produced a substantial report on the industry. It says this is a 'make or break'...