WARRINGTON based home care provider, Home Instead, is continuing to spearhead the UK’s home care sector with the appointment of its first Director of Care and Quality.
Established in 2006, the company has swiftly risen to the forefront of specialist home care for the elderly across the UK, with 245 franchised offices.
Its latest executive level appointment of pharmacist Sanjeev Kaushal demonstrates Home Instead’s commitment to pioneering new levels of home care. Based at head office in Lower Stretton, Sanjeev’s primary remit will be to identify ways the company can further reduce the growing burden on the NHS by increasing its range of at home care services.
Sanjeev has 16 years’ experience working predominantly in top 5 Fortune 500 healthcare corporations, most recently Lloyds Pharmacy Clinical Homecare and McKesson UK where he was Senior Head of Pharmacy Operations and Quality and Chief Superintendent Pharmacist respectively. Sanjeev has also worked in the NHS as a cancer care lead for adults and paediatrics improving medicine adherence and quality of life standards.
“Sanjeev’s appointment is a reflection of our ambition as a company to meet the rising demand for specialist care within the home environment,” commented Martin Jones, CEO of Home Instead UK. “There are currently over 11 million people aged 65 in the UK. In ten years’ time this will have increased to 13 million people, that’s 22 percent of the population. Couple that with the 70 percent rise in people living with multimorbidity – more than two diagnosed long-term conditions such as diabetes, cancer, asthma and dementia – and it’s clear that our homes will increasingly become the hospitals of the future.
Bringing Sanjeev into our Executive Team is part of our strategy to drive the changes needed within the care industry to respond to these shifts in demographics. This will require new approaches and the confidence to lead the field in bringing long-term conditions and treatment plans out of hospitals and into our homes. Sanjeev’s clinical expertise is vital in identifying these opportunities and helping plan the training and potential qualifications that our care professionals will need in order to deliver this growing capacity of our business.”
Sanjeev was previously a Board Director for the National Clinical Homecare Association as well as working collaboratively with the Department of Health and developing strategic relationships with regulators and key decision makers. He holds an MSc in Hospital (Advanced Healthcare Management and Pharmacy Practice) from Kings College London and an Improving Global Health, Quality and Safety Certificate from Harvard University.
Commenting on his new role, Sanjeev said, “Home Instead has a fantastic reputation as a pioneering care company and the team has a clear plan to establish homecare as the default care option in the future. The integration of technology into care delivery has bought huge advantages to the industry and there are many more opportunities to transform the range of care services delivered in the home. This is a hugely exciting time for the care sector and, having worked at the forefront of healthcare for many years, I am ideally placed to identify the areas where Home Instead can expand its remit to support the health and wellbeing of home care clients for the long term.”
