On Monday the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, announced in the budget that the government is giving local authorities an extra £650 million to spend on social care. However, only £240 million of this is ring fenced for adult social care. Councils will make the decision as to whether the remaining £410 million with go to either …
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Today the Joint Committee on Human Rights has called for changes to the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill via a report. Within the report the Committee has identified several points that they consider to be issues with the Bill. They’ve proposed:- To include in the legislation a definition of deprivation of liberty in the context of …
Following complaints from relatives about end of life care in homes, CQC have told the BBC that every nursing home needed to be capable of supporting people at the end of their lives. Andrew Sutcliffe, Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care for the CQC, has said:- “Nursing homes are where we see the greatest struggles …
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In August this year I wrote of my growing concern about the CQC’s rigid approach to registration of services for people with learning disabilities/autism. (https://ridout-law.com/ridout-report-august-2018-not-registering-the-right-support/) My concerns were around the CQC’s apparent failure to properly exercise its discretion when applying the Registering the Right Support guidance to registration applications. The experience of many of our …
Concerns have been expressed by care providers about the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill, currently going through parliament. Martin Green, Chief Executive of Care England, has expressed the sectors’ main concerns. They feel the government is not working with them in “shifting responsibilities” to care home managers that are a “clear conflict of interest”. The CQC’s …
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The CQC has set out proposals for a new factual accuracy process and has invited providers of health and social care providers to comment on suggested changes. In August this year CQC asked for views on ways they can improve their factual accuracy process. In response to these views, which included making the process digital …
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A minister has confirmed that the government will amend its planned replacement to the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLs) so that it applies to 16-and-17 year olds. Yesterday the House of Lords debated the bill, after the government were criticised for excluding 16 and 17 year olds from the scheme. Further criticism of the bill …
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Imagine if you will a world where public and private providers of health and social care are dealt with an even hand. A world where private providers of care are given the support and room to offer good quality care to their service users. A world where inspections and ratings are not excessively relied upon …
CQC have published their State of Care 2018, an annual assessment of health and social care in England. CQC have said that the findings show that “most people in England receive a good quality of care. Our ratings show that quality overall has been largely maintained from last year, and in some cases improved, despite …
Last month the Kings Fund and Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS) published a report analysing the effectiveness of the CQC’s approach to inspecting and rating health and social care providers. The report is titled ‘Impact of the Care Quality Commission on provider performance – Room for improvement?’. While it noted that the current CQC inspection …
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