Care home insurance need after Southern Cross transfers?
Charities
6th December 2011
Additional care home insurance policies may be required as the final properties have now been transferred from troubled firm Southern Cross.
The government has announced that the move has been achieved with all parties working together to ensure minimum disruption to residents was caused.
According to the Department of Health, no one has lost a place in any of the facilities and all individuals have been looked after during the switch over to new operators, with transfers scrutinised and approved by the Care Quality Commission.
Care services minister Paul Burstow welcomed the successful transfer of the remaining homes owned by the firm, adding: "Without this huge co-operative effort, the situation could have been very different for the 31,000 residents and 40,000 staff."
In related news, the Care Quality Commission has recently come under fire in a report from the National Audit Office for missing registration deadlines and being responsible for a fall in levels of compliance and inspection activity.
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