A CARE provider in Salisbury is aiming to double in size over the next three to five years.

Abicare delivers bespoke visiting and live-in care packages to residents in their own homes and is seeking to create a high performing care organisation to meet increasing local need.

The company has provided more than 5 million care hours to thousands of care recipients since it was established 20 years ago.

With NHS pressures and demand for quality homecare, Abicare says it has restructured to enable growth, ensuring it can support national and regional health frameworks and take its innovative healthcare solutions to the wider marketplace.

Tasked with taking the company forward is an experienced team of three industry professionals with more than 50 years combined expertise in leading successful healthcare businesses.

Taking the lead is chairman Ian Talbot, supported by chief commercial officer Steve Carter and chief operating officer Matt Hibberd.

Steve will head up a new clinical care division due to launch next year and Matt will lead Abicare’s personal care division.

They will work with the company’s existing team of 350 care professionals to drive expansion and strengthen local authority relationships and partnership opportunities.

Abicare is also recruiting more than 100 new care personnel over the next 12 months, along with identifying new regions for expansion, including Somerset, Bristol and Gloucester.

Ian said: “Over the last 12 months, we have worked to reimagine the traditional homecare model to better meet the needs of society.

“We are in a unique position to use our key care capabilities to support care recipients, even those with more complex clinical needs, in their own homes.

“The restructure enables us to facilitate the delivery of a comprehensive suite of complex care and reablement services in the home, expediating earlier discharges from hospital and potentially avoiding hospital admissions altogether, ensuring a meaningful impact not only on the lives of those we care for, but the communities in which they live.”

For further information visit www.abicare.co.uk