Who is chai patel

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Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are as essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. He began working in the NHS after training to be a doctor but left to work in the City. In he founded Court Cavendish, a long-term care services business. CareFirst Group was acquired by Bupa in In he was awarded a CBE for his services to the development of social care policies.

Dr Patel is also well known for being former chief executive of the Priory Group which runs the Priory rehab clinic, famous for treating celebrities such as Kate Moss and Jade Goody. He resigned from this role in and re-established Court Cavendish. Yet it is HC-One of which he is most proud. It was taken up by the regulators at the time as an example of best practice. I feel proud that, having returned to the care sector, I have seen our handbook once again embedded in the fabric of care homes," he says.

Dr Patel formed HC-One and took over the management of one-third of the Southern Cross care homes because he says: "I felt it needed to be done. It was something I felt I really had to do. There was very bad press around the time of the Southern Cross collapse, yet the majority of the staff were doing an excellent job. We carried out a very detailed review of all the care homes we took over from Southern Cross and every home has been examined by our internal quality inspection team.

We are redeveloping our training programme and have spent a lot of time engaging with residents and relatives, we are on our way but we have a long way to go. These are very serious issues. Patel is a rich man, but his career has had its troubles: a long battle with the medical regulator over a misconduct case taken against him, ultimately unsuccessfully, over conditions in one of his care homes; and a high-profile controversy in over a loan to the Labour party and his nomination for a peerage, which he turned down.

His latest business venture, a private equity firm, is opening opportunities in other sectors. He could walk away from social care tomorrow, for good, yet he keeps returning to it like a dog to a bone.

I still wake up every morning wanting to solve some of these problems, because I think we can do better. And it makes me happy to do what I do. David Brindle. Chai Patel has warned that the demands placed on the NHS by a poorly-funded care sector could precipitate its collapse.