Category: Care Inspectorate
Domiciliary care provider launches franchise drive
Bright Care, one of the most innovative new entrants into the domiciliary care sector in Scotland, is launching a franchise drive with the eventual aim of becoming one of the biggest enterprises of its kind in the UK. Edinburgh-based Bright Care, run by young entrepreneur Tim Cocking, has already clocked up £1m turnover since [...]
Care Inspectorate announces new chair
The Care Inspectorate today welcomed the announcement of its new chair. Paul Edie has been appointed by Scottish Ministers to chair the board of the Care Inspectorate, the body charged with regulating and inspecting care services and social work across Scotland. Mr Edie will also sit on the boards of the Scottish Social [...]
Scotland’s care regulator New Elderly Care initiative
Scotland’s care regulator today launched a new initiative to enhance the quality of life of older people receiving care services. The Care Inspectorate has worked with a team of experts to develop the ‘Make Every Moment Count’ resource, which contains easy to read and simple guidance for everyone supporting older people in a care home [...]
Care Inspectorate create three key care management roles
Scotland’s care regulator is to create three key management positions as part of its continued drive to provide creative and innovative scrutiny of care of children, young people and adults. The Care Inspectorate is to appoint three senior officers who will play a major role in the future operation of the organisation, whilst having the [...]
Care Inspectorate give Nightingale House care home a Very Good rating
A Paisley care home, Nightingale House has achieved and retained its Grade 5, or ‘Very Good’ rating in a report by the Care Inspectorate. Sterling Care Homes Ltd, which owns Nightingale House, was acquired by Arti Poddar in 2008. The company employs 50 staff at Nightingale House and provides care services for older people with [...]
Residents and Relatives Praise Cumbrae House Care Home
Cumbrae House in Glasgow part of Lambhill Court Limited has been awarded a grade 4 rating in its latest inspection by the Care Inspectorate, the independent scrutiny and improvement body for care and children’s services. Cumbrae House is a unique development at St. Georges Cross located where the city centre meets the West End. [...]
Local MSP Requests Special Visit to Outstanding Care Home
A CONSISTENTLY outstanding care service has sparked a clamour for entry – from the local MSP. Glasgow MSP Humza Yousaf was so impressed by the latest inspection results at Carntyne Care Home he wrote to staff and residents requesting a special visit. Now the delighted workers and residents will play host to Mr Yousaf this [...]
Timely dementia diagnosis is a basic human right
Alzheimer Scotland welcomes the focus of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia’s report in improving the rates of diagnosis. Receiving a timely diagnosis is a fundamental human right for every person with dementia and is essential in ensuring they have access to the range of supports and treatment which help them to continue living [...]
Learning IT, Nithsdale Lodge Care Home residents enjoy new skills.
Peter Donnelly and John O’Neill, residents at Nithsdale Lodge Care Home, part of Lotus Senior Living in Pollokshields are delighted to be starting open learning modules in IT with Langside College, Glasgow. Nithsdale Lodge in Glasgow’s Pollokshields is a 35 bedded care home offering all rooms with en-suite facilities. Since moving into Nithsdale Lodge, [...]
Nicola Sturgeon to launch Second Year report on Scotland’s National Dementia Strategy at Alzheimer Scotland’s national conference
Today, at the Thistle Hotel in Glasgow, Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will officially launch the Second Year report on the progress of Scotland’s National Dementia Strategy at Alzheimer Scotland’s national conference: ‘Creativity and dementia – policy and practice’. She will deliver the keynote address at 11.35am. The conference will focus on a number [...]
Potential to diagnose dementia early has been ignored
Today, NICE has backed measures to improve support of dementia carers by approving targets on registering and assessing dementia carers in the NHS Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF). This set of three targets will be piloted and could enter the QOF from 2014/15: The percentage of patients with dementia with the contact details of a [...]
Badging Staff Meets Care Quality Commission Outcome
Since 2010 healthcare practices regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) must meet service delivery criteria including the clear identification of individual staff members. The guidance publication entitled Essential standards of quality and safety specifies that, for providers to achieve the required standard of care and welfare of people who use their healthcare services, their [...]
Selling Close Care Property
The biggest problem facing owners of close care properties is the misunderstanding, or just ignorance, of the general public as to what exactly Close Care is all about. Homes With Care define it as Assisted Living units that can be rented or bought by people needing more help than can easily be achieved in standard [...]
Rustington nursing home starts two-year quest for end of life excellence
The team at Care UK’s Darlington Court nursing home is this week starting a nationally accredited programme of training and evaluation to gain the country’s highest recognition of end of life care. The Gold Standard Framework Care Home Accreditation (GSFCH), approved by the NHS, Department of Health, Age UK and Macmillan Cancer Support, is [...]
Cumbrae House Care Home Welcomes their New Home Manager Lorna Flanagan
Care home owners Mr & Mrs Poddar are delighted to announce the appointment of Lorna Flanagan as Home Manager at Cumbrae House in Glasgow part of Lambhill Court Limited. Cumbrae House is a unique development at St. Georges Cross located where the city centre meets the West End. Lorna, 57 who lives in Crookston in [...]
Preventing Infection in Care-A top priority for Scottish care provider
Govan based Florence House part of the Lambhill Court Ltd family of care homes has been involved in a national evaluation of a new education initiative to support infection prevention and control in Care Homes and the home environment across Scotland. The education programme was developed by NHS Education for Scotland (NES) in partnership with [...]
CQC Inspector arrested on suspicion of money laundering & bribery
The City of London Police today arrested an ex-employee of the Care Quality Commission, as part of an ongoing investigation concerning allegations that proprietors of care homes were being pressurised into paying fees for favourable inspection reports. In an early morning operation, a 43 year-old woman was arrested by detectives at her home in [...]
Care Inspectorate Staff Celebrate RoCA Success
Care inspectors need to be praised for the important role they play in ensuring that our most vulnerable citizens receive quality care and support, Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said. The Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Cities Strategy was speaking as she congratulated 40 Care Inspectorate staff who have completed an academic qualification [...]
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