Private care homes are a failed model

A care home run by Four Seasons Health Care, which is seeking a buyer. Photograph: Photofusion/REX/ShutterstockOne hundred care home operators are reported as going out of business last year, and over 400 in the past five years (Collapse of care home firms ‘could force patients into hospitals’, 12 March). 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.Surely it is wrong for people, of