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'...
LaingBuisson announces the appointment of Stephen Dorrell as Chairman and Henry Elphick as CEO
LaingBuisson, the UK’s leading healthcare market intelligence provider, today announces the new appointments of The Right Honourable Stephen Dorrell as Chairman and Henry Elphick as Chief Executive Officer. Stephen Dorrell was a Member of Parliament for 36 years and during his career held the position...
