Month: December 2017

Labour decries NHS Crisis

The Labour Party has described the deepening NHS crisis as a “disaster”. Recent figures have shown there are over 100,000 job openings across the NHS. It has been brought to light by a freedom of information request by the Labour Party, that there is serious understaffing occurring across the NHS with over 40,000 nurses and …

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Lack of funding sees at least 1,400 people with dementia spending Christmas in hospital

Due to underfunding, there is a lack of available care homes and home care for people with dementia and many are being made to spend Christmas Day in hospital, despite being fit enough to go home. The Alzheimer’s Society has said those with dementia are being delayed in hospital up to 10 times as long …

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Disappointment in challenging the local authority’s fee setting decision – Judicial Review on breach of the Care Act dismissed.

Earlier on this year, Care England brought judicial review proceedings against Essex local authority regarding the introduction of new fees under a commissioning framework introduced in 2016. Under the commissioning framework, care home and nursing providers were offered a maximum of £538.37 and £577.29 per week per resident. This rate was allegedly offered without any …

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Caring Times – Fixed Penalty Notices – To pay or not to pay CQC? That is the question

Adult social care providers are required to have a registered manager. It is a condition of their registration with CQC under section 33 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008. A breach of this condition without reasonable excuse can lead to a provider being prosecuted, the sanction being a fine which is unlimited. As …

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HSJ – Helpful Guidance on Sentencing in Health and Safety Cases

Helpful guidance on sentencing in Health and Safety cases The Sentencing Remarks of The Hon. Mr Justice Haddon-Cave in the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecution of Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust provide a rare and clear insight into the courts’ current approach to sentencing in serious health and safety prosecutions.   The Hon. Mr Justice …

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The King’s Fund loses its Chair

King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust’s Chair resigns in protest over underfunding of health care services. According to the Guardian, Lord Kerslake contended that due to severe Government underfunding that ‘hospitals cannot perform their key role properly’. Since taking on responsibility for Bromley’s Princess Royal University hospital in 2014, the Trust has struggled to cope alongside …

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Drink and Drug News – Forewarned is forearmed – The CQC’s new briefing is essential reading for the sector

On 29 November 2017, CQC published ‘Substance misuse services: The quality and safety of residential detoxification’, a briefing of the 2016/ 2017 inspection cycle. The document, which is necessary reading for all within the sector, is significant for its almost exclusively negative tone. The 9 page document contains no reference to the hard work of …

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New provider guidance on CQC inspection now in force – Care Talk Magazine

On 1 November 2017 CQC implemented its new inspection guidance following on from the latest consultation on its next phase of regulation.  The release of the new guidance supersedes the previous Provider Handbooks and instead CQC has implemented more concentrated guidance aimed at each sector it regulates.  The guidance sets out how CQC will regulate …

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