Tag: Care Quality Commission
CQC Reports On Hospitals & Care Homes
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) today publishes a further 10 reports from a targeted programme of 150 unannounced inspections of hospitals and care homes that care for people with learning disabilities. The programme is looking at whether people experience safe and appropriate care, treatment and support and whether they are protected from abuse. A [...]
The government must respond to the care funding crisis
Alzheimer’s Society has today set out five areas that require urgent reform to end abuse in care homes. The call comes ahead of shocking footage to be shown on BBC’s Panorama tonight, which shows serious abuse of a vulnerable person with dementia at a care home previously rated excellent by the CQC. Andrew Chidgey, Director [...]
CQC Statement On Ash Court Care Home Sentencing
Following two unannounced visits to Ash Court Care Centre by the Care Quality Commision last summer and the subsequent arrest of a care worker which resulted in an investigation into an alleged assault involving an elderly female resident; Matthew Trainer, Deputy Director of CQC in London, said today: “CQC welcomes the sentence handed down today. It is right that [...]
18 Further Reports From Unannounced Visits By CQC
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) today publishes a further 18 reports from a targeted programme of 150 unannounced inspections of hospitals and care homes that care for people with learning disabilities. The programme is looking at whether people experience safe and appropriate care, treatment and support and whether they are protected from abuse. A [...]
Join The Care Roadshow Glasgow In April
With free seminars and leading exhibitors, why not join the many professionals already registered for Care Roadshow Glasgow. The free event is to be held at the Glasgow Royal Concert Halls on Tuesday 24th April. The roadshow is your chance to source leading products tailored to your care home and to learn about the latest [...]
Out-of-hours providers in England register with the Care Quality Commission
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) today announced the completion of registration for independent out-of-hours medical services. All but one of the forty eight providers in this group has now been successfully registered with the Commission and no registered provider has been given any compliance conditions. In May last year the government agreed to a request [...]
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Is Inconsistent In Many Care Homes
Awareness of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards in care homes and hospitals grew in 2010-2011 but staff training on how to apply them was still patchy, leading to inconsistent practice, says the Care Quality Commission (CQC). There are gaps in information about other parts of the safeguards system, involving councils and primary care trusts, which [...]
CQC Announces Regulatory Fees Updates
Following two consecutive consultations on the fees that it charges to health and social care providers, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has announced changes to its fee structure and the amounts that certain providers have to pay under the Health and Social Care Act 2008. These have been approved by the Secretary of State for [...]
CQC Publish Further Reports Of Services For People With Learning Disabilities
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) today publishes a further 19 reports from a targeted programme of 150 unannounced inspections of hospitals and care homes that care for people with learning disabilities. The programme is looking at whether people experience safe and appropriate care, treatment and support and whether they are protected from abuse. A national [...]
CQC Report Misses The Point
The English Community Care Association (ECCA), the leading representative charity for independent care providers, has commented on the fact that CQC has finally released data from its special review into healthcare in care homes, originally conceived in 2009. Martin Green, Chief Executive of ECCA, said: “The CQC report on healthcare in care homes completely misses [...]
Review of Healthcare Services For Care Home Residents Published
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has today published the results of a review of how the healthcare needs of care home residents are met. It addresses how older people and people with learning disabilities living in care homes access healthcare services, whether they have choice and control over their healthcare and whether they receive care [...]
Commission On Improving Dignity In Care
The Commission on improving dignity in care released its draft report and recommendations for public consultation on Wednesday on 29 February 2012. The draft report sets out ten key recommendations for hospitals and ten key recommendations for care homes to help them tackle the underlying causes of undignified care, as well detailed recommendations on the changes [...]
Cynthia Bower Announces Resignation As Chief Executive Of CQC
Cynthia Bower, Chief Executive of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) today announced her resignation. Cynthia Bower said: “After almost four years leading CQC, I feel that it is now time to move on. The process of setting up an entirely new system of regulation has been intensely challenging – but we have accomplished an enormous [...]
Improvements In NHS Outpatient Departments
NATIONAL SURVEY SHOWS IMPROVEMENTS IN PEOPLE BEING SEEN ON TIME FOR THEIR APPOINTMENTS AND CLEANLINESS IN NHS OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENTS BUT treatments still need to be better explained to patients. The national survey of NHS outpatients has shown improvement in the way that patients perceive key aspects of care including being seen on time or early [...]
Oadby Care Home Worker Sentenced For Abusing Elderly
The conviction of a care home worker should act as a deterrent to others tempted to mistreat vulnerable people, Leicestershire Police have said. Malcolm Cramp, who worked at the Brockshill Woodlands Care Centre in Oadby, Leicestershire, was sentenced to 12 months at Leicester Crown Court on Friday (February 10). He was convicted of seven counts [...]
Person Centred Care Not Being Delivered
People often not at the centre of their own care, says CQC as it publishes reports from its review of services for people with learning disabilities. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) today publishes a further 20 reports from a targeted programme of 150 unannounced inspections of hospitals and care homes that [...]
Four Seasons Loans Restructure Goes Ahead
Four Seasons, now the UK’s largest independent care home operator are negotiating the restructure of their £780m debt and are hoping to raise £230m via their shareholders. Four Seasons Healthcare took 140 homes from ashes of Southern Cross to make them the largest provider of elderly care in the UK. The debt, [...]
Bournemouth Welcomes The Care Show
Care Show Bournemouth returns to the BIC on the 27th and 28th of March for two days of industry networking, education and product showcases. This industry leading trade exhibition promises to be the most comprehensive Care Show to date, attracting exhibitors and visitors from across the South of the UK. Providing business solutions for owners [...]
Improve Monitoring Across Care
The English Community Care Association, the leading representative charity for care providers has commented on the CQC’s suggestion that hospitals should keep the dossier on people who are admitted from care homes with malnutrition or hydration issues. Martin Green, Chief Executive of ECCA, says: “There is a need for improved monitoring across the [...]
Parkside Hospital Now In Putney
Parkside Hospital now also in Putney. Parkside Hospital will be opening a new outpatient facility in the Upper Richmond Road, Putney in February 2012. Parkside Hospital at Putney will comprise four consulting rooms, a diagnostic area with ultrasound facility and a minor procedures room. The facility will reduce travelling time and offer an alternative [...]
CQC Publishes Reports On Services For People With Learning Disabilities
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) today publishes a further 12 reports from a targeted programme of 150 unannounced inspections of hospitals and care homes that care for people with learning disabilities. The programme is looking at whether people experience safe and appropriate care, treatment and support and whether they are protected from abuse. [...]
CQC TO INVESTIGATE EMERGENCY CARE
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has announced it is using its investigation powers to look into the delivery of emergency care services by University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust. The investigation is underway. The investigation will focus on the emergency care pathway and will explore whether there are problems [...]
CQC Publishes Its Review Of Services For People With Learning Disabilities
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) today publishes ten reports from a targeted programme of 150 unannounced inspections of hospitals and care homes that care for people with learning disabilities. The first five reports were published in December. The programme is looking at whether people experience safe and appropriate care, treatment and support and [...]
What Price Quality?
What Price Quality? It’s been a turbulent year in the care sector with the collapse of Southern Cross, the Panorama expose of abuse at Winterbourne View, Andrew Dilnot’s recommendations for the future funding of social care, and a regulator seemingly unable to persuade politicians, the public and care providers alike of its value. As 2012 [...]
JEWISH CARE’S ADULT SOCIAL WORK TEAM WINS NATIONAL AWARD
The Jewish Care adult social work team has won silver award for the Adult Team of the Year category in the annual National Social Worker of the Year Awards 2011. The team was presented with their award at a ceremony at the House of Lords on Friday 16th December which was attended by [...]
1001 beds for Healthcare Homes as Care Provider Reaches Milestone
A milestone has been reached by East Anglian care provider Healthcare Homes after its 1001st bedroom was registered by the Care Quality Commission. Throughout 2011, the Colchester-based company has invested heavily in an expansion and refurbishment programme at many of its homes across East Anglia. With the most recent addition of six new [...]
Gathering Evidence For The 16 Essential Standards
The National Care Association are holding an event on Thursday which many care operators may be interested in attending; Gathering Evidence for the 16 Essential Standards Date: Thursday, 15th December 2011 Times: Workshop 1 – 9am-12.30pm Workshop 2 – 2pm-5.30pm Venue: National Care Association, 45-49 Leather Lane, London EC1N 7TJ For care home [...]
An Efficient & Effective Regulator Is The Cornerstone Of A High Quality Care Market
The English Community Care Association (ECCA), the leading representative charity for independent care providers, has today responded to the National Audit Office Report on the efficiency of CQC. Martin Green, Chief Executive of ECCA, says: “The National Audit Office report has identified a range of failings and inefficiencies within the Care [...]
Can We Deliver Excellent Home Care?
Can it really be true that 50% of those home care service users questioned have suffered some form of abuse? Nobody can who’s listened to the news last week can fail to be horrified by the stories and figures released by the EHRC- What is happening to our sector? How can [...]
Home Care Services To Be Targeted By CQC
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is to carry out a themed inspection programme of home care services. The programme will help the regulator develop new ways to ensure these services meet the essential standards people have a right to expect and that people are being treated with dignity and respect. The [...]
Martin Green Comments On Care Alliance Vision For Care
Martin Green, Chair, Care Providers Alliance, says: “Care providers are committed to ensuring quality care for service users. A cornerstone of this has to be proportionate and effective regulation. The Care Providers Alliance stands ready to work with CQC to deliver a regulatory regime that will support providers to build on [...]
Care Providers Alliance Launches A Vision For Regulation
The regulation of care and support: a Care Provider Alliance vision Background to the Care Providers Alliance The Care Providers Alliance (CPA) is a group of representative bodies within the adult social care sector who have come together to ensure a coordinated response to the major issues that affect the sector. The [...]
CQC Investigation Identifies Serious Failings
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) today publishes its full investigation report into Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRT). The investigation into quality of care at the King George and Queen’s Hospital sites, which began in early July, identifies serious problems and places requirements on the Trust to deliver [...]
HealthWatch England Will Be The National Consumer Champion
Next month sees a major step in the setting up of HealthWatch England, with the start of the recruitment of its Chair. HealthWatch England will be the national consumer champion that will give voice to collective views of the people who use NHS and social care services in England. Patrick [...]
NCA Welcome Abandonment of Excellence Scheme
The National Care Association has welcomed the Minister for Social Care’s announcement that, following consultation, the proposed adult social care excellence award scheme has now been abandoned due to wide spread opposition from within the sector. National Care Association Chairman Nadra Ahmed OBE said, ‘We are delighted that our campaign over the past few months [...]
ECCA Responds To Excellence Scheme
The English Community Care Association (ECCA), the leading representative charity for independent care providers, has responded to the announcement that the proposed Care Quality Commission (CQC) excellence scheme will not go ahead . Martin Green, Chief Executive of ECCA, says: “The care sector is committed to delivering quality and excellence in care [...]
Whose fault is it?
CQC calls for action to improve care for older people CQC today publishes a report into the standards of care that elderly people receive in hospital – and calls for a system-wide response to combat the failings identified. This report summarises the findings of 100 unannounced inspections of NHS acute [...]
Getting Registration Right
The English Community Care Association (ECCA), the leading representative charity for independent care providers, has responded to the DH consultation on proposed changes to regulations for CQC registration. Martin Green, Chief Executive of ECCA, says: “Getting registration right is the cornerstone of developing a quality health and social care system that [...]
CQC Excellence Award On Hold
At the National Care Association’s Annual Conference the Care Quality Commission chair Dame Jo Williams said that she saw no prospect of the Excellence Award scheme going ahead after it had received a ‘universal thumbs down’ by provider bodies and organisations such as the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services during [...]
UKHCA Comments On CQC’s Excellence Award.
Following Dame Jo Williams speech at the National Care Association Annual Conference this week where she confirmed that the CQC’s suggested ‘Excellence Award’ would probably not go ahead given the response from various other leading organisations such as the NCA, UKHCA, Adult Social Services and other relevant bodies; the UKHCA responded: [...]
HICA Care Homes MD Wins National Award
Ty Platten, Managing Director of the HICA Group’s Care Homes Division, has beaten representatives of some of the UK’s biggest independent healthcare providers to win a prestigious national award. Ty won the Management Excellence Award category in the Laing & Buisson Independent Healthcare Awards. The Awards showcase professional skills, management leadership, excellence [...]
Chris Choi to Chair Second Day of NCA Annual Conference
Chris Choi, Consumer Editor for ITV News, is chairing the main session on the second day of the upcoming National Care Association‘s annual conference. National Care Association’s annual conference day two programme will include three sessions; Challenges and Opportunities with keynote speaker Dame Jo Williams CBE, Chair of the Care Quality Commission, [...]
ECCA Responds To Health Select Committee Report On The Care Quality Commission
The English Community Care Association (ECCA), the leading representative charity for independent care providers, has responded to the Health Select Committee’s report on its review of the Care Quality Commission. Martin Green, Chief Executive of ECCA, says: “The findings of the report echo ECCA’s comments over the last year. We [...]
A Picture Of Health For Social Care?
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) today publishes its third annual report to Parliament on the state of health and adult social care in England. The report covers the period April 2010 until March 2011 and encompasses evidence from the CQC’s first year of regulation under the Health and Social Care Act 2008. [...]
CQC’s Responds To The Health Select Committee Report
The Committee’s report highlights the major challenges CQC has faced in merging three existing regulators, setting up a new regulatory model, and registering more than 39,000 provider locations – including previously unregulated sectors – against aggressive Parliamentary deadlines and with a 30% budget reduction . We know registration has been a difficult [...]
Paul Burstow Updates The Government On Southern Cross
Paul Burstow updates the government on Southern Cross- A company that will be no more from the end of October. Paul Burstow MP Written Update On Southern Cross September 12, 2011 I wish to update the House further on the situation regarding Southern Cross Healthcare. Throughout, the Government’s overriding concerns have been [...]
Heathcotes Receive Excellent Results!
The Heathcotes Group is a provider of specialist residential care for adults with learning disabilities, complex needs and associated challenging behaviours. The Group currently operates 13 services across the country, with ambitious growth plans in place that will see that number increase to 20 by the end of 2011. The [...]
National Care Association Invite Dame Jo Williams To Speak At Conference
Dame Jo Williams CBE, Chair of the Care Quality Commission, will be the keynote speaker at the National Care Association’s annual conference this September. National Care Association Chief Executive, Sheila Scott OBE says that “…with concern about the CQC so high on the care sector’s agenda we are eagerly anticipating what [...]
