The Department of Health had to go cap in hand to the Treasury to request an additional £205m to balance its books for the 2015-16 financial year. It demonstrates a department under severe financial pressures that seems to operate outside of the rules that are set against other Governmental departments. The Department’s annual budget was …
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The staffing issue that has recently beset CQC and threatened to throw it’s already behind schedule inspection timetable has turned another corner. CQC speaks of the importance of its Experts by Experience to assist with the successful completion of inspections within healthcare settings. Earlier this year CQC handed the contract to fulfil its staffing needs …
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In November George Osborne gave Councils the ability to raise additional funds through council tax rises by up to 2% which must be used to exclusively pay for social care from April 2016. He also gave the Better Care fund an additional £1.5bn annually which will also help pay for care as it is used …
It is alleged that the charity Age UK struck a deal with E.On to offer pensioners energy tariffs at a seemingly higher rate. Age UK received over £6m a year for this deal. The deal is to be examined by regulators Ofgem and the Charities Commission. The rate that was offered on the tariff linked …
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The current regime in force in the UK is centred on substitute decision making whereby decisions are made on behalf of the individual lacking capacity. The driving force which operates against this norm is contained within the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) which seeks to afford those with disabilities mental …
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Under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 CQC can take steps to cancel a provider’s registration on an urgent basis on application to a magistrates’ court. Such powers can be taken against a single home registrant or in order to cancel a provider’s ability to carry on any regulated activities everywhere, by cancelling the …
The CQC was created in 2008 to take over the function of the previous English Health and Social Care regulators (The Commission for Social Care Inspection and the Healthcare Commission). It took on its role from 2009, at first merely continuing the functions of the previous regulators and subsequently introducing the new system of regulation …
Over the years it has attracted the highest penalty from the law, namely that a life be taken in retribution, by way of punishment, for taking the life of another. Since the mid-1960s, English sentencing, according to the law, has mitigated the ultimate sanction. Some would suggest that decades in prison is a more cruel …
GPs voted in favour of removing care home visits from their 2016/17 contract at last weekend’s Special Conference of Local Medical Committees. This comes as GPs are in the process of renegotiating their contract to provide GP services for the forthcoming year. The move to consider patients from care homes separately from all others is …
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The Citizen’s Advice Bureau (CAB) report as cited by the Times on 08 February 2016 – Hidden charges in care homes – is simplistic and could be much more helpful for residents and potential residents. It should be noted carefully that this will apply only to independently funded care i.e. full self-funders and those paying …
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