Author name: bhups

There are undoubtedly a number of major challenges facing the healthcare sector – a growing elderly population, better diagnosis leading to often-lengthy courses of expensive treatment or surgery, more rigorous scrutiny by the general population, the media and government and a scarcity of resources, financial, practical and human. Of all of these I see the most immediate being the chronic shortage of qualified nurses and it’s this that needs addressing urgently

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Healthcare Management Solutions (HCMS) is expanding its selection of services for the care sector to offer a bespoke ‘Finance Function’ to oversee the accounting and financial systems on behalf of private operators, receivers, administrators and lenders.

Why is the government progressing with the high-speed rail link when it can’t afford to pay the care bill for vulnerable people?

The recently announced news of the CQC’s return to a star rating system has had the wires buzzing for some time now and it has been the cause of much hot debate.

Chief executive of insolvency consultancy and care home operator Healthcare Management Solutions Tony Stein explains how the groups’ various functions marry up and gives CCMn an update on the sector’s newest major operator Akari Care.

Concern over the management of care homes in the UK is a topical and sensitive issue. Mismanagement of care homes has now begun to take precedence over the sector’s widely publicised financial difficulties.

Tony Stein, managing director of Healthcare Management Solutions, asks whether the care sector is losing sight of the CQC’s purpose…

Care homes seem to be coming an increasingly frequent topic of conversation – here, Tony Stein sets out why this may be and, more importantly, what to look out for and how we can help.