Letter: An overstretched NHS is being forced to pick up the pieces when private care homes go bust, writes Gillian Dalley
One hundred care home operators are reported as going out of business last year, and over 400 in the past five years . Residential care has for far too long been the unsuccessful model for services intended for the public good being run instead by the private sector.
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