Tag: CQC
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 [...]
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 [...]
How Many Of Us Care For The Elderly, Really?
Do we really think of our patient, clients, service users as we do our family? Well if we are registered with CQC to provide care, be it domiciliary, or actual care home living support then we really need to remember that respect and dignity should be at the core of our service. At Healthcare landscape [...]
Lawrence Tomlinson comments in the wake of BBC’s Panorama
CQC is just a symptom: It’s time to treat the cause of the UKs social care problems Following the revelations of the horrendous treatment of an Alzheimer’s patient in Ash Court Care Home, Lawrence Tomlinson, Founding Chairman of Ideal Care Homes, speaks out. Mr Tomlinson calls for quality to be given top priority across the [...]
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 [...]
Care Show An Outstanding Success Once Again
With over 180 exhibitors and more free educational content than ever before, Care Show Bournemouth (www.careshow.co.uk/bournemouth) was set to be a big success. Doors opened on March 27th at Bournemouth BIC to a queue of eager visitors from across the south of England, keen to explore the biggest free care trade exhibition in the UK. [...]
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 [...]
ECCA Responds To PAC Report
Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report into CQC demands action on improvement English Community Care Association (ECCA), the leading representative charity for social care in England, has commented on the PAC report into the Care Quality Commission. The PAC report, released today, into the Care Quality Commission (CQC) sets out some strong messages and [...]
CQC responds to Failure Accusations
CQC response to PAC report We are disappointed that the PAC report, based on last year’s NAO report, does not recognise the significant improvements of recent months. These improvements were noted in the Performance and Capability Review published by the Department of Health in February, which referred to CQC’s ‘considerable’ achievements in “setting the [...]
Discover CQC Updates and Innovative Suppliers at Care Roadshow Gateshead
Now is your chance to access educational seminars and to network with leading care suppliers and industry experts by registering for Care Roadshow Gateshead. The free event is to be held at The Lancastrian Suite on Tuesday 22nd May. The roadshow is your chance to source leading products tailored to your care home and [...]
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 [...]
Good Care Guide-A search tool or a menace?
There has been a lot of debate since the launch of www.goodcareguide.co.uk and many of the comments have been negative so I thought I’d speak to the owners and ask them directly what their intentions are regarding the site and ask the questions many operators wanted to ask. On first speaking to Stephen Burke, Director [...]
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. [...]
£4.7 million care home opens its doors
A new luxury care home in Alloa officially opens today, (Friday, 20th January) creating more than 100 jobs. Parklands, the state-of-the-art, purpose-built care home in Alloa Park Drive represents a £4.7million investment by Meallmore, one of Scotland’s leading providers of nursing and residential care. Marshall Construction will hand over the keys to the 62-bed [...]
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 [...]
BBC Investigate Further Abuse at Harlow Care Home
Partridge Care Centre in Harlow, Essex is facing further investigations by the police after BBC Essex uncovered neglect and abuse of elderly residents. Over the last 2 years the CQC have made various recommendations regarding the quality of care at Partridge Care Centre. In 2010 the CQC took enforcement action against the home. [...]
Maria Mallaband Announces Expansion Plans
Philip Burgan Chief Executive of Maria Mallaband Care Group announced this week that he’d like to hand over the reins within the next 10 years. MMCG has a turnover of £100m and they hope to double in size over the next year. They recently acquired 35 care homes as a result [...]
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 [...]
Nicotine Improves Cognitive Ability, Says Study
Nicotine has been shown to improve cognitive performance in smokers who have stopped smoking according to a study published today in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Previous short-term studies with nicotine have shown attention and memory improvement in people with Alzheimer’s disease. This study looked the effects of [...]
ECCA Responds To CQC Consultation On fees For Providers From 2012
The English Community Care Association (ECCA), the leading representative charity for independent care providers, whilst welcoming the decision not to increase fees further for providers in 2012 and to reduce the fees in the lowest band for adult social care providers without accommodation, ECCA still feels that the fees scheme for Adult Social [...]
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 [...]
Four Seasons Under Government Scrutiny
In a written statement to government Paul Burstow Minister of State-Care services has confirmed that Four Seasons have met with senior officials from his department twice in the last 12 months to explain the company’s financial position and his department will continue to keep in close touch with the company. During these [...]
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 [...]
Care Quality Commission Response To The National Audit Office Report
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) welcomes the report from the National Audit Office and its helpful recommendations. We note that the value for money judgement is based predominantly on CQC’s early task of registering health and social care providers. The head of the National Audit Office, Amyas Morse, has acknowledged the difficulties [...]
Castlebeck Announces Action Plan
Castlebeck, the specialist provider of healthcare services, today announced details of an Action Plan to make fundamental changes and improvements to its care services across the UK. The Action Plan is Castlebeck’s response to the Panorama Programme into one of its facilities – Winterbourne View. The implementation of the Action Plan is already [...]
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 [...]
AGE UK Statement On EHRC Home Care Enquiry
Michelle Mitchell, Charity Director at Age UK says: “The evidence of physical and financial abuse uncovered by the EHRC home care inquiry is shameful. It is simply unacceptable that care in people’s own homes, where they can be at their most vulnerable, is often inadequate, disrespectful and lacking in dignity. By definition [...]
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 [...]
Baroness Greengross raises Hydration question in House of Lords
November 2011 On the 7th November Baroness Greengross tabled a question in the House of Lords to ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have plans to implement a hydration policy in hospitals and care homes. The responses reflected the view that the implementation of policies would not have the desired effect, would [...]
Celebrities join Apetito to celebrate National Community Meals Week
Community Meals hit the headlines when a host of dignitaries and celebrities joined apetito, the leading national supplier of Meals on Wheels to local authorities throughout the UK, as it made its daily deliveries to pensioners across the country. To celebrate this year’s National Community Meals Week and raise awareness of the service, [...]
Shaping Our Age
New research released from WRVS, the UK’s largest charity delivering preventative care for older people, shows that services older people believe are crucial to their wellbeing are suffering as a result of government cuts across the country placing older people’s health at risk and putting an overstretched NHS under even greater pressure. [...]
