The National Audit Office has released a report dated 2 December 2011 on the Care Quality Commission (CQC), which has identified a range of failings and inefficiencies within CQC. Some key points include: · The providers regulated by CQC account for approximately 10 per cent of GDP. Currently over 21,000 providers in over 40,000 …
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Users and carers’ opinions on care services will be published alongside ratings of their quality on an online “good care guide” designed to replace the star ratings scrapped last year, Paul Burstow has said. The care services minister said he wanted to develop a social care comparison site to provide service users with real-time information …
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Jonny Landau considers what the Sefton judgment means for the care sector. Following a year of unprecedented challenges to the care sector, a High Court judgment on fees offers a welcome ray of hope. The Sefton Care Association and several of its member care homes successfully challenged Sefton Council’s decision to freeze care home fees …
The care sector’s pursuit of fair and realistic fees took a huge leap forward this month following the ground-breaking Judgment in The Sefton Care Association & Others v Sefton Council. The background facts will resonate across the sector. Sefton Council froze care fees in response to budgetary pressures without consulting care providers or taking into …
It’s all too easy to be negative about the care sector, so this month, as Christmas approaches, I thought it was time to reflect on some of the positive messages around care. Here are some of them. There has never before been such focus on the welfare and choice of service users. Regulatory requirements, adult …
Single registration, enabling a provider to be registered in relation to multiple services, was trumpeted as a more proportionate and sensible way of regulating the sector when the Health and Social Care Bill (now Act) was passing through Parliament. However, providers who fall into this category are at considerable risk of a new form urgent …
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