Tag: Domiciliary Care
Alzheimer Scotland comment on the case of Jeanette Maitland, whose husband received 106 carers over one year
No one should have to go through the experience that Jeanette Maitland and her late husband faced. Unjustifiably frequent changes of support and care staff are simply not acceptable in any circumstance, particularly where dementia is concerned, and we must learn some very quick lessons from this terrible situation. There are around 84,000 people [...]
Hica at Home expands its homecare service in the North west
Over 200 new jobs are to be created by the Hica Group as it expands its Hica At Home homecare operations in the North West. Hica At Home is recruiting 50 people now to service a recently-awarded Lancashire County Council tender to provide care services for residents at the newly-opened Brookside extra care housing scheme [...]
Any improvements to care inspections are positive, but the question remains, is it enough?
Changes to Home Care Inspections The Guardian recently ran an article where Philip King of the CQC explained the new programme of inspections due to be rolled out for home care across the UK. He illustrated the practical difficulties of inspecting home care, including the fact that the carer may well be providing care of [...]
Unnannounced Visits To Home Care Services Begin
The Care Quality Commission (CCQ) has this week embarked on a special programme of 250 unannounced inspections of home care services. Over the next three months the CQC will be carrying out inspections to test ways of getting better information about how services are performing and what people think about their services. The inspections will [...]
HET Software awarded ESPO Electronic Homecare Monitoring Framework
h.e.t. software, the leading provider of software solutions for the social care industry, is pleased to announce its re-award onto the Eastern Shires Purchasing Organisation (ESPO) Electronic Homecare Monitoring Framework. ESPO is one of the UK’s largest public sector professional buying organisations. They provide a comprehensive procurement service to enable customers to [...]
West Midlands Home Care Create 150 New Jobs
Afro-Caribbean Businesswomen of the Year 1996 – Nikki Walker is set to create 150 new domiciliary care jobs having just secured two new contracts for her company West Midlands Home-Based Care which provides 24 hour care and domiciliary services to people living in their own homes. The care provider won contracts from Walsall and Warwickshire to [...]
Ark Expands Home Care Across UK
Leading care provider Ark Home Healthcare (Ark) is to recruit over 100 new care workers this year as it continues to expand its home care offer across the UK. The jobs will be provided in Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire and will support in part a recently-won contract with Surrey County Council to provide domiciliary and [...]
Westward Care Deliver Care At Home
Regional care provider, Westward Care has launched At Home – a premium home care service for older people in Leeds which provides a professional and reliable alternative to moving into a care home. “There was a time when things were black and white. You were either able to lead an independent life at home, [...]
Harrogate Food Angels
A FIRST FOR HARROGATE AS THE FOOD ANGELS COME TO TOWN Harrogate’s community will now be receiving fresh, hot meals delivered to their homes for the first time thanks to a newly launched service – Harrogate Food Angels. The initiative is set to make an immediate positive impact on those who rely [...]
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 [...]
Bluebird Care Launches Website
Bluebird Care, one of the largest and fastest-growing care at home providers, has reported a surge in enquiries at its head and regional offices since launching its new website www.bluebirdcare.co.uk earlier this month. The informative website for the Petersfield-based company, which has over 130 offices nationwide and provides over 6,800 care visits a [...]
New Huddersfield Care Business To Create 50 Jobs
A new service specialising in caring for older people in their own homes has opened its doors this week and hopes to create 50 new jobs in the area. Home Instead Senior Care is based at Brooke’s Mill in Armitage Bridge and will serve clients across the Huddersfield area. For co-owner [...]
TUC Day of Action
Are you involved in the strikes on Wednesday? Do you sympathise with the strikers? Let me know if the day of action has an effect on your business and staff. Will it damage your business? Will you be able to provide adequate care? Leave your comments below;
HSBC REFINANCE NURTURES GROWTH AT SEVACARE
Wolverhampton-based Sevacare, the 6th largest domiciliary care at home business in the UK, has been supported with £5m of funding by HSBC’s Corporate Banking team in the Midlands. Led by Senior Corporate Manager Martin Walters, supported by Chris Westwood of HSBC Invoice Finance, the funding will enable Sevacare to continue with its [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Protect Your Clients Assets
Are you a Residential Home Provider or Nursing Home Provider? What existing arrangements do you have in place to manage vulnerable client’s funds? Are any existing arrangements in place robust enough to cover yourself from any associated risks? For example are you holding large amounts of funds for [...]
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 [...]
Simon Bird Joins Care South
Care South is pleased to announce that chartered surveyor Simon Bird has joined the Senior Management Team as Property and Business Development Director. Care South is a registered charity and leading provider of high quality, innovative care (including specialist dementia care) with 20 residential and nursing care homes and close care available [...]
Jewish Care Offers Support By The Sea
A dynamic group of Bournemouth-based volunteers has been offering support to their local Jewish community. The tight-knit team includes Pat Cravitz, Josie Lipsitz, Marcia Goodman and Liz Harris has been helping people access local social services, offering advice regarding obtaining funding for services as well as giving emotional support to vulnerable members [...]
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 [...]
Meals On Wheels-Maintaining Independence
As the evenings quickly begin to draw in the problem of social isolation becomes more apparent amongst our growing elderly population. It is possible in the warmer weather and light evenings to access outside space to have social contact with other people but as the winter approaches we all tend to [...]
The Next Step-Finding Appropriate Placements After In-Patient Rehabilitation
The ABIL meeting held on 4 October addressed the challenges and successes of finding placements that fully meet the needs and wants of a patient, whether immediately after in-patient rehab or years down the line. After a welcome from Norman Keen, Chair of ABIL, Enable Care’s Keith Hawley opened the meeting challenging [...]
Who Are The Twenty Most Important Care Providers In The UK?
As the role of independent healthcare providers grows ever stronger, and the prospect of greater outsourcing of services becomes a reality in the ongoing NHS reform programme, the chief executive of healthcare intelligence provider Laing & Buisson has published a list of the twenty most important providers operating in UK healthcare [...]
Care Quality Commission Launches Consultation On Fees
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is consulting about changes to the fees it proposes to charge providers of health and adult social care for 2012/13. These fees cover CQC’s work in registering providers and monitoring their compliance with government standards of safety and quality. The consultation sets out proposals to extend the [...]
HICA To Open Specialist Day Care Centre
At a time when day care centres across the country are facing cuts and closures, the HICA Group is shortly to open a day care centre in Hull, which has been designed specifically for people with dementia. The new centre, built within the grounds of HICA’s The Rowans care home in [...]
Which? Domiciliary Service And Why- Which? Needs Your Help!
Consumer organisation, Which?, is in its third year of investigating via freedom ofinformation requests what criteria local councils are applying for eligibility for domiciliary care, and is interested in your experiences and views re the quality of dom care. In 2010, Which? found that two thirds (70%) of local authorities in England [...]
Private Equity Financing – A Cause For Celebration Or Concern?
Until recently, domiciliary care wasn’t a topic to grace the front pages of the broadsheets, let alone the tabloids. But recent events have brought it out of the shadows and it seems everyone is talking about it. The interest has been sparked by a series of unrelated – and, [...]
Enara Purchase Colvin and Longacre Domiciliary Services
August Equity LLP portfolio company, Enara Group Limited, has today announced the completion of its 30th acquisition, following two recent acquisitions. Enara, a domiciliary care provider, has acquired Colvin Nursing Agency Ltd and Longacre Homecare Limited. Colvin is based in Hampstead and provides nursing, personal and domiciliary care to clients in [...]
Diary Of A Domiciliary Provider
DIARY 27th June 2011 Got to thinking over the weekend – service user / customer / client / patient – which is the best generic term – as there is a long running thread on LinkedIn on how providers should refer to the people who use our services. I dislike [...]
Fairer Funding Is The Right Route To Go Down
Care UK welcomes the publication of the Fairer Care Funding report as a useful step forward in creating a simpler and more equitable way of paying for social care. Mike Parish, Chief Executive of Care UK (pictured), the care home operator, said limiting people’s exposure to their own [...]
Domiciliary Life-ADASS Results
DIARY 24th June The results of the ADASS survey on the success of personal budgets come as no surprise. The data indicates that the increase in personal budget numbers of 35% in the year to March was almost entirely accounted for by increases in council-managed budgets. This is box-ticking at its [...]
Our First Trip To The Care Show
Pictured Consultant Carrie Lewis On the 22nd – 23rd June 2011 Anna and I attended the Care Show Birmingham. With it being our first time at the Care Show we weren’t sure what to expect. We attended many of the walk in seminars with our note pads at the ready and [...]
Cutting Edge of Domiciliary Care
DIARY OF A HOME CARE COMPANY DIRECTOR Being a care provider in the domiciliary arena in 2011 is clearly a challenge; balancing service user / customer/ client needs with Local Authorities attempting to get their minds round the whole subject of personalisation against a background of cost cuts is “interesting”. I [...]
Flawed System Exposed
The English Community Care Association (ECCA), the leading representative body for independent care providers, has responded to the interim report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission on home care. Martin Green, Chief Executive of ECCA, says: “The report identifies that the rhetoric of personalisation and empowerment is not the reality of [...]
