Jennifer Durbin

The Capacity Tracker – Have you been submitting mandatory data monthly?

Providers who fail to provide monthly data to the North England Care System Support Unit in line with the requirements of section 277A of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (“HSCA”) may be subject to financial penalties. Purpose of the Capacity Tracker Prior to the Capacity Tracker’s (“CT”) launching in 2019, the Department of …

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The Importance Consumer Law Obligations in Social Care – Equality

This is the second of my four-part series on the importance of consumer law obligations and their relevance to health and social care providers. In my first article, I discussed transparency and how both consumer law and health and social care law effectively mirrored each other. In this second article I will discuss the overlap …

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Update: NMC Shuts Down Midwifery Programme Over Safety Concerns

Back in March 2023, I wrote about the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (“the NMC”) proposal to shut down Canterbury Christ Church University’s (“University”) midwifery programme at hospital trusts across the local area following concerning feedback received from existing students who reported a lack of supervision and being left alone to look after patients for entire …

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The Importance of Consumer Law Obligations in Social Care: Transparency

An often overlooked, but fundamental, aspect of the social care industry is consumer law, particularly in relation to the contractual relationship between provider and service user where the services are privately funded. At its core, social care is a contractual relationship between consumer (i.e. service users) and trader (i.e. providers). As such, providers who enter …

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CQC Fine Average Increases by 242% to more than £550,000

Analysis conducted by Shakespeare Martineau reveled that CQC prosecution and fining of care homes has increased post-pandemic. The data showed that compared to pre-pandemic (2017-2019), CQC prosecutions have increased by 50% post-pandemic (2020-2022), rising from 30 to 45. Further data reveled that the average fine is now in excess of £550,000 compared to £160,000 pre-pandemic, …

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