A case recently heard before the Scottish courts could hold particular importance to care providers and their health and safety consultants across the UK. While the facts of the case sit outside of the care sector, the overriding principles could still apply to operators within the sector, especially with the increase in regulatory activity and …
Guardian research has shown professionals are reluctant to climb the career ladder with only one in six social workers wanting to be managers. The latest survey by Guardian Social Lives found that only 15% of the 1,400 respondents planned to move into management roles in the next five years. Reasons for this were identified by …
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New plans published on 20 March 2017 by the Department of Health will prohibit discrimination against whistleblowers when they apply for jobs with NHS employers. The plans will strengthen the legal recourse whistleblowers can access if they believe they have been discriminated against because they appear to have blown the whistle. Appropriate remedies will be …
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CQC, as obliged under the Equalities Act 2010, has published its new objectives for equality for the next two years. The five objectives identified by CQC and their headline points are listed below: Person centred care and equality CQC intend to ensure that the correct leadership is in place to realise the ambition of delivering …
A BBC Panorama investigation has found care firms have cancelled contracts with 95 UK councils, saying they cannot deliver services for the amount they are being paid. This figure comes from a Freedom of Information request, which was responded to by 197 of 212 UK councils. The research was carried out for Panorama by Opus …
Age UK have said Christmas sparked a big rise in calls to the charity from older people and their families asking for advice about care homes. The charity experienced a significant increase in calls to its national advice line during winter of last year, with a 12 per cent rise in calls from older people, …
Age UK say care home advice was at the top of their callers list at Christmas Read More »
Further to Philip Hammond’s recent announcement in the budget that an extra £2bn of funding will be granted to social care in England over the next three years, the care home industry has called on the government to ensure that the money makes its way to frontline services rather than staying with local authorities. Their …
CQC is in the process of developing a new statistical surveillance tool which is intended to help guide its inspection programme towards those providers who are most at risk of providing poor care. The tool will be used to focus inspections of NHS trusts and will be based on its ‘Intelligent Monitoring’ (IM) tool that …
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In a final report and draft bill published today, the Law Commission has stated that the deprivation of liberty safeguards (DoLS) are frequently not used when they should be, leaving individuals without the protections parliament intended. After local authorities experienced a tenfold increase in applications in England and a 16-fold increase in Wales following the …
The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has drafted a new quality standard which says people showing signs of sepsis must be checked carefully, and once someone is classed as high-risk they should be seen by senior staff and given the right treatment. Recent cases have shown that there are inconsistencies in how …
New NICE guidelines ask for life-threatening sepsis to be treated within one hour Read More »
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