Caremark is a British home care services company that operates a network of franchises, specialising in both private-pay and state-funded home care. It was founded by Kevin Lewis, Chief Executive, in 2005 and is based in Worthing.
History
Lewis established a care home in Brighton in 1987. He saw a new opportunity after the British government passed the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990, to provide care to people in their own homes with an independent company which could be publicly financed by local authorities.
In 2019, Noorina Boodhooa, who owns the franchise in the London Borough of Barnet, and is also senior clinical site manager at the Royal London Hospital met with Boris Johnson to discuss long-term funding solutions and improving hospital-to-home transfers.[1]
In 2020 the business had 128 offices and employed about 6,000 people. Most of the offices are in the UK, with 12 in Ireland, one in Malta and one in India. The Indian office, in Cochin provides free care in a home for 180 people who have been 'abandoned'.[2]
In April 2020 the business was looking to recruit 3000 extra staff in the UK because of demand caused by the