Research by Macmillan Cancer Support shows although 1% of cancer patients say they would prefer to die in hospital, only 38% do. This equates to 62,000 people a year across the UK. Reasons for this are due to a lack of health services outside hospitals, such as district nurses, to support people in their homes …
Research shows thousands of cancer patients denied wish to die at home Read More »
With the forthcoming elections approaching, public bodies, such as the CQC, are having to respect a ‘pre-election period’, which places certain short-term restrictions on what they’re allowed to publish and announce in the period before an election. CQC will not be publishing any new national reports during the pre-election period (13 April 2017 – 4 …
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In the past month, CQC has published over 100 reports on the quality of care provided by GP practices that have been inspected by specialist teams of inspectors. All of England’s GP practices are being given a rating according to whether they are safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, under CQC’s new programme of inspections. …
Care home residents and their friends and families have rated care homes across the UK, giving their top 20 for each region. The reviews were based on the overall standard of a care home, ratings on nutrition, staff, whether they are treated with dignity, value for money and the facilities. Carehome.co.uk collated the reviews and …
Care home residents pick their top UK care homes Read More »
At Ridouts Professional Services Ltd, we are finding that sustainability of improvements is the major preoccupation for CQC on reinspection of services. That focus is only going to grow in importance given the terms of CQC’s Strategy for 2016-21 which it has recently consulted on. The proposed changes to CQC’s inspection methodology, which are due …
Ridout Report – CQC ratings and the issue of sustainability of improvements Read More »
Lessons and learnings for providers In 2015/2016 the 660 highest fined defendants clocked up approximately £39m in fines. After the courts began applying the health and safety sentencing guidelines in 2016/2017, it took only the 20 highest fined defendants to accumulate the same level of fines. It took over 30 times as many defendants before …
A drug, discovered by scientists, has been found to stop all neurodegenerative brain diseases, including dementia. A UK Medical Research Council team stopped brain cells dying in an animal for the first time in 2013, creating headlines around the world. Nevertheless, the compound used was unsuitable for people, as it caused organ damage. But the …
In a report by charity Independent Age, an analysis based on CQC inspections of care homes, found the North West contains seven of the eight worst performing English local authorities on care home quality, with one in three care homes across the region performing poorly. London was found to be the best performing region with …
New report finds ‘stark variation’ in quality of care homes in England Read More »
Over the past year, one topic is a regular feature when substance misuse providers meet at conferences, at training events, and in the waiting rooms of law firms; that their CQC inspection reports are peppered with negative commentary. This commentary, according to providers, does not address their core services but the more tangential and arguably …
In an announcement planned for tomorrow by Labour Leader, Jeremy Corbyn, around 1 million carers would receive an extra £10 a week under plans for a significant rise in the value of a carer’s allowance. The increase would be funded by Labour and cost £538m by the time of the next election, by reversing the …
Unpaid carers to have 17% allowance increase under Labour Read More »
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