Our News
We have a variety of news items in the care sector that offer prominent and useful information to casual and professional readers. We have worked with a plethora of UK Councils in the residential care sector and have a wide range of article placements in mainstream newspaper outlets. All news items are here to help individuals receive the care they need at a fair price.
How much should you be paying for residential care?
Ray Hart is interviewed by Radio 4 You and Yours.
The Telegraph – The real reason why the middle classes pay 194pc more for care
Middle-class families who have to pay for their own care are not merely subsidising council-funded residents but becoming the sole source of care homes’ profits. This means that previous calculations of the “self-funder tax” – the difference between fees paid by private residents and fees paid by councils – have been hugely underestimated.
Health Tech Newspaper – CHC Technology
The cultural change of using technology to purchase CHC placements: are we ready? Ray Hart, director at Valuing Care, discusses the cultural change of using technology to improve the purchasing process for CHC placements. He discusses the benefits, and explains why training is essential to its success.
Health Tech Newspaper: The Cultural Change of using technology to purchase CHC placements
Ray Hart, director at Valuing Care, discusses the cultural change of using technology to improve the purchasing process for CHC placements. He discusses the benefits, and explains why training is essential to its success.
BBC Radio 4 – You and Yours | Hidden contract costs
Ray Hart talks to Peter White about the need to review contracts for hidden clauses about payments to be made when rooms become vacant due to resident deaths.
BBC Radio 4 – You & Yours
Ray Hart, Director at Valuing Care, is interviewed by Winifred Robinson Care home fees for people funding themselves could rise by between six and ten percent by the time the new national living wage comes into force in April, according to industry watchers. We hear from…
Daily Mail: Rising Care Home Fees
Care crisis! The cost of a room in a care home, presently about £750 a week, will be £1,000 a week by 2020, experts warn The firms running care homes will try to plug the gap by raising fees, experts say. Valuing Care, a respected care fees analyst, predicts they will rise 8 per cent a year ‘for the next decade’.
Health Tech Newspaper: New CHC Online System
Valuing Care has launched a new online ‘Continuing Healthcare (CHC) Cost Toolkit’ to help commissioners manage and purchase better, more cost-effective CHC placements. This online system enables CHC placements to be commissioned in the most cost effective manner.