Tony Billingham, president of the West Midlands Care Association, shakes hands with John Noott, president of the Registered Care Homes Association of Hereford and Worcester. The two groups struck a deal over Christmas which will make them one of Britain's biggest lobbying bodies on behalf of care and nursing services.
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