Tag: Mental Health
PERSISTENCE PAYS OFF FOR BYKER JOBSEEKER
The persistence of a 20-year-old man from Newcastle, who has applied for more than a 1,000 jobs since leaving school, has finally paid off. Wesley McGinn, who lives in Byker, has just started working for Care UK, which provides care services throughout the region in the health, residential, community and mental health sectors. Now a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Affected By Mental Health?
‘Park Bench’, a short film written and produced by a group of Jewish Care’s mental health educators along with Magpie Motion Productions was launched at the Martin B. Cohen Centre for Wellbeing in Edgware on Monday 10th October on World Mental Health Day. The red carpet event was attended by 80 [...]
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 [...]
Announcing The Launch Of Synergy Health Recruitment.
The health & social care recruitment consultancy run by Health Professionals for Health Professionals. Based in Halifax, Yorkshire and already with international clients and candidates, Synergy Health Recruitment was founded by Sheridan Bailey following her recent redundancy from the healthcare sector. Sheridan has 12 years working as a senior health [...]
Castlebeck Responds To CQC Report
Castlebeck respond to findings by the Care Quality Commission regarding Croxton Lodge and Cedar Vale Care Homes; Following the CQC’s statement issued on 28th July confirming enforcement action at Croxton Lodge and Cedar Vale, the company received formal warning notices in relation to these two facilities. The company is already in the process [...]
Castlebeck Responds To Forced Closure
Castlebeck has today (August 17th 2011) confirmed that it is to close its Arden Vale facility in Meriden, Coventry. The Company has reached this decision following its own internal review and ongoing engagement with the Care Quality Commission (‘CQC’). The Company is now making alternative arrangements for the 19 people in [...]
CQC Announces Third Castlebeck Service To Close
Arden Vale in Meriden, Solihull, is to close ahead of the conclusion of legal action by the Care Quality Commission. Castlebeck Care (Teesdale) Limited has agreed to close the service, which provides care for adults with learning disabilities and mental health problems. The decision comes after CQC served a legal notice proposing to [...]
Care Operator Receives Enforcement Notices In Darlington
Middleton Lodge Care Home near Darlington and owned by care group Potens has received 4 strict enforcement notices relating to the home and poor care. CQC inspectors made an unannounced visit to the £800 per week per bed care home and discovered several problems including; Inexperienced and unqualified staff administering injections, [...]
New Mental Health Strategy By Government
The results of the 2011 survey of people who use community mental health services, have been published by the Care Quality Commission, are set to play an important role in the Government’s new mental health outcomes strategy. The experiences of more than 17,000 service users across the 65 NHS mental health trusts [...]
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 [...]
Free Workshops On Mental Capacity Act
Social Care Institute for Excellence has announced more dates for workshops on the Mental Capacity Act. The training sessions are free to staff working in organisations registered with CQC to provide adult social care, including homecare, and aimed at senior staff and managers. A limit of three staff per provider on [...]
Go Ahead For Mental Health Unit In Bridgwater
Plans to build a 62-bed mental health unit in Somerset have been given final approval by Sedgemoor District Council. It will be situated near the A38 north of Bridgwater and will be built by developers Cygnet Healthcare. Although the proposal was given initial approval in December, this was subject to fulfilling certain conditions. These issues [...]
