A damning report by MPs in the Health Select Committee warned that the public does not trust the CQC to tell them if care homes and hospitals are fit for purpose. Stephen Dorrell, the Chairman of the Committee has said the CQC must do more if patients are to have confidence in its hospital inspections. …
Paul Burstow, a Liberal Democrat MP and former care services minister, has recently issued a report on the funding of elderly care costs. In the report he has suggested that the winter fuel allowance, which is currently universally available, should be means-tested in order to contribute to the cost of reforming elderly care in England. …
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It has been decided that the debt-stricken South London Healthcare NHS trust should be dissolved after an official consultation. The trust which runs three hospitals in London was the first to be placed in administration after it started losing £1.3m a week. Special administrator Matthew Kershaw said the trust should be dissolved and other organisations …
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has warned that NHS managers will lose their jobs if they preside over failings in care. Mr Hunt said “proper accountability” was needed in the NHS. He made these comments ahead of a report into failings at Stafford Hospital, which is expected to be published in the next few months. Between …
Following a series of critical reports and ahead of the findings of a public inquiry into care at Stafford Hospital David Cameron said he wanted to make improving care one of his top priorities for 2013. The Prime Minister said there is still a long way to go to raise standards of care in the …
From 2015, children taken to accident and emergency departments will have their details put through a £9 million computer database in order to identify potential victims of abuse. The Child Protection – Information System will identify children who have been to casualty on more than one occasion. It will also identify children who are living …
Last month, the Department of Health (DOH) published its final report into the abuse allegations in Winterbourne View. The plan of action set out in the report is wide ranging and will escalate the pace of change in the way services are delivered to those with learning disabilities. The trend of moving service users from …
In September 2012, CQC issued a consultation paper on its strategy for 2013 to 2016 called, “The next phase”. Although the consultation exercise has now closed, and CQC’s response is awaited, the actual consultation document makes for some interesting reading. There are some encouraging signs for providers which we pick up in this article. A …
Full of Christmas cheer, the Department of Health published its consultation document, Market Oversight in Adult Social Care, on 1 December 2012. Following the demise of Southern Cross, there is a heightened concern within Government that the current system is insufficiently robust to deal with major provider failure in the adult social care sector. The …
Most will look back on 2012 with fond nostalgia but it is hard to remember a more challenging time in the health and social care sector. Whilst the rest of the nation revelled in a landmark year filled with enormous sporting achievement, a very special milestone for the Queen and news of a royal baby, …
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