Carehomeadvisor.com – bringing an objective view to care home choice
LaingBuisson, the leading healthcare market intelligence provider, announces the launch of CareHomeAdvisor. Endorsed by Age UK, Independent Age and Care England, CareHomeAdvisor is a consumer website which informs people which care homes provide the best quality care. Choosing a care home can be highly emotive....
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LaingBuisson and BKR partner to provide independent care and education service inspections and assessments
LaingBuisson and BKR Care Consultancy are pleased to announce a partnership to provide CQC-type and Ofsted-type inspections across England, Wales and Scotland. Inspections are conducted by a highly experienced, 26-strong inspection team that have undertaken more than 300 inspections. They include former CQC inspectors, senior...
LaingBuisson responds to CLG Committee’s report on Adult Social Care
Data from LaingBuisson Reports (Care of Older People, 27th ed, 2015 and Care Cost Benchmarks, 7th ed (2015-16) was cited in the Communities and Local Government Committee report into the provision of funding for adult social care. Responding to the report, William Laing, Director, said:...
LaingBuisson intelligence adding to the national social care debate
The Financial Times reports that care home residents who pay their own fees are subsidising local-authority funded residents by more than £100 a week, according to figures taken from the latest research conducted by LaingBuisson. Speaking to Gill Plimmer, William Laing said that self-finding residents...
Care home funding shortfall leaves self-funders filling £1.3 billion gap
Self-funding, or private-pay, care home residents are keeping the sector afloat according to the latest figures from healthcare market intelligence provider LaingBuisson. The latest update to its Care Cost Benchmarks toolkit has found that the average fee per resident paid to care homes falls short...
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...
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...
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....
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'...