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Together with Music to continue singing for another three years

On the first anniversary of Intergenerational Music Making’s (IMM) national music programme, Together with Music, HC-One are thrilled to announce that funding for the campaign will continue for another three years. A Together with Music relationship, introduced through our digital platform, begins with the virtual exchange of a song, providing an inherent opportunity for individuals …

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Chai in the Times: Carers must get the recognition and support they deserve after this crisis

The coronavirus crisis has shone a spotlight on the vital role social carers play in our health and care system and in our nation’s ability to respond to a health crisis. Millions of social carers have risked their lives each day to bring kindness, comfort and joy to some of society’s most vulnerable people, and …

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Bupa deal set to create UK’s biggest care homes provider

An investment group that is set to be the biggest care homes owner in Britain has vowed that it will not become the next Southern Cross. HC-One is poised to acquire about 120 homes from Bupa, possibly through a debt and equity deal amid unease about the implications for the group’s debt levels and with …

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Care home chief warns sector is on the brink of catastrophic failure

Care homes are teetering “on the edge” and a chronic shortage of funding risks “catastrophic failure” within the National Health Service, the businessman expected to be the biggest operator of residential homes has warned. Chai Patel, chairman of HC-One, which could take over more than 120 homes from Bupa, predicted that six national chains would …

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Chai Patel: social care is ‘an essential public good’

Few entrepreneurs would cheerfully accept state control of the prices they charge, let alone call for it to be imposed. But then Dr Chai Patel is no conventional businessman – and these are desperate days for the social care sector in which he is a key player. “I’d be very happy if the government wanted …

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