Month: February 2017

Over 23,000 allegations of abuse made against domiciliary care workers

Information gathered under a freedom of information request from BBC radio 4 reveals that at least 23,428 safeguarding alerts were made between 2013/14 and 2015/16 about domiciliary care workers contracted by local authorities. The request was submitted to councils across the UK and only half of them responded to the request.  This means that in …

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Lexis Nexis – Viability of remedies against public authorities

Public bodies serve the public. Increasingly those affected by public authority decisions are aggrieved and seek a remedy. Clearly if the grievance relates to breach of contract or a tort (civil wrong) the public body may be held liable for remedies arising under the common law. Such claims include breach of statutory duty (where such …

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Ridout Report February 2017 – CQC Enforcement Action – CQC’s powers to impose conditions of registration

At Ridouts we have noticed an increase in CQC using its power to impose conditions of registration on providers’ services.  In particular, the imposition of positive conditions – those that require providers to take affirmative action – appears to have increased in recent months. Under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (“Act”), CQC has …

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Drink & Drug News- Q & A February 2017

Q: ‘We have received criticism for not providing clear patient pathways on exit from our residential treatment service. We are very focused on aftercare and have strong relationships with the fellowships and other community groups – however these are informal and we do not have documentation. How should we present our evidence to demonstrate that this is …

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Age UK urges Government to provide ‘urgent funds’ for adult social care in the Spring Budget

The charity, Age UK, has called on the Government to inject urgent money into the care system in the Spring Budget. They’ve warned that the care system for older people is living on ‘borrowed time’. In a report labelled, ‘The Health and Care of Older People in England 2017’ the charity has revealed that one …

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Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG) publishes ‘top ten’ tips to help people make right social care choice

The disability charity, Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG), has published guidance to help people who are worrying about how they can pick the best social care support for them or their family. Labelled ‘Top ten tips when choosing a support provider’, the list is designed to help people consider the difference between support from a …

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NHS doctors write to Theresa May asking her to increase spending on health and social care

A letter has been sent to the Prime Minister urging her to increase spending on health and social care. With signatures from around 2,000 NHS consultants, associated specialists and GPs, the letter strongly calls on the need for investment in the NHS. Dr Rob Galloway, emergency consultant and Anita Sugavanam, consultant anaesthetist from Brighton and …

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CQC completes first round of all adult social care and GP inspections

CQC has completed the inspection of all adult social care and GP services registered prior to 1 October 2014. This is quite a feat and involved inspecting over 30,000 adult social care services and over 8,000 GP practices. CQC often missed their own self-imposed deadline for completion of this work owing to staffing issues and …

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