Founded by Professor Patrick Carr, an acknowledged leader in the field of long- term health and social care, CNHS was set up to provide advice/ consultancy and management services to those who operate Nursing, Residential Care and Small Homes.

CNHS provides help in those areas close to the hearts of Owners and Operators or private establishments, namely;

Since it was set up in 1994, CNHS has provided advice to hundreds of Owners, carried out consultancy work for over 50 companies - ranging from Plc's to Small Owner-operated Homes, and has taken over the management of ten Homes, at the request of Owners/Registration Bodies/ and in one instance the Registered Homes Tribunal.

Contact Details are as follows:

Professor Patrick Carr's C.V.

Through direct access to Professor Patrick Carr, CNHS gives Owners/Operators the opportunity of talking to someone who is qualified not only in nursing (both general and mental), but is also a Lawyer, Educator and Researcher who has lectured widely and published a number of Standard Works in the field of health and social care

Following a long career in both mental and general nursing in the UK, Patrick Carr completed degrees in law and sociology culminating in his doctorate at the University of Manchester. He then went on to Manchester Polytechnic where he became Head of Nursing Studies (1975-1986). There he developed nursing Studies into one of the largest departments of its kind in higher education in the United Kingdom, in the process producing many landmark course such as the Community Psychiatric Nursing courses, and the first Post-Registration Degree Course for Nurses to run in Europe. At the polytechnic he founded, and ran for some years, a national research institute devoted to mental health research.

In 1986 Dr Carr joined the Registered Nursing Home Association - RNHA, as its General Secretary later to become Chief Executive. He helped build the RNHA into the premier trade association in the private residential healthcare sector. Dr Carr acted as Association Spokesman, to both Government and the media, in the process meeting Ministers on many occasions; and generally "fronted up" for the Association and the nursing home sector.

Dr Carr, being qualified in both nursing and law, is an expert on the interface between  health and social care and the law. Whilst with the RNHA he was able to put this to good use to by successfully representing Members on many occasions in Hearings/Tribunals/Courts. Since leaving the RNHA he has provided expert evidence in various courts, including oral evidence under cross-examination.

Professor Carr left the RNHA in 1994 to set up CNHS- the Care and Nursing Home Service- an Advice / Consultancy / Management Service dedicated to the needs of those providing care in the long term health and social care field. The service provides advice on the key core areas of community care, education and training, quality assurance and registration and inspection.

As a result of his extensive clinical, teaching and research experience, both within and outwith national health systems in the UK and overseas, Professor Carr has become recognised as an Industry Spokesman of international standing, and it was on that basis that the United Nations agreed to fund his Research Project 'Quality Assurance in Long-Term Care', based at Florida State University, where Patrick received a Clinical Professorial Appointment.

Patrick and his wife (who is also a nurse) operated their own Nursing Home in Cheshire between 1979 and 1995

Professor Carr's publications include: ' Community Psychiatric Nursing - Caring for the Mentally ill and Handicapped in the Community', 'The Research Process in Nursing' , 'Crossing the Rubicon of Community Care', and ' The Care Assistant's Guide to working with Elderly Mentally Infirm People'.

Professor Carr's Qualifications are as follows: BA(Hons), Phd, RMN, RGN, RNT, F.LLA