Commercial Risk in Healthcare

“The owner of a home care business wept yesterday” as she “accused the Government of overlooking carers,” according to The Times, 21 April 2020. Alice Ushamba said she had lost a third of her “clients” and half of her “carers” within a month.

Hants Healthcare Limited, in Hythe Southampton is a Private Limited Company incorporated in August 2016.  Alice Ushamba is not the “owner” of the business neither is she listed a person with “significant control.”  There is, however, a Mr Moses Ushanba, a Zimbabwean national, who has significant influence or control by owning for than 25% but not more than 50% of the shares in Hants Healthcare Limited.  Mr Ushamba resigned as a Director of the Company on 31 January this year.  The last, unaudited, accounts were submitted in August 2018.

Hants Healthcare Limited carries out “social work activities without accommodation for the elderly and disabled,” under their own commercial arrangements.  Whilst one is deeply concerned for the care of those who are affected, the inventory management of a private concern would not seem to be the direct responsibility of the “Government,” as the tearful Alice Ushamba claimed to the BBC World at One yesterday.