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Care Talk: Record-Keeping and Report Writing

It is difficult to overstate how important good record keeping is yet it is surprisingly rare.  Good record keeping ensures that relevant information is captured for use by carers and other professionals.  That information may be needed for a variety of reasons including, among other things: Identifying trends for use in risk assessments. Monitoring changes …

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Enforcement: How to Avoid it and How to Respond if it Comes your Way.

Last month the Ridout Report looked at compliance reports and how to challenge them. Where CQC make adverse findings in compliance reviews, there are range of enforcement options open to CQC. This month, the Ridout Report looks at those options and how providers can challenge them. CQC has published guidance which sets out how it …

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Quality & Compliance Magazine: Adult Safeguarding: a system that is not working

Current safeguarding framework One of the major criticisms of the current adult safeguarding framework is that it does not have a firm statutory footing in terms of defining duties and processes, in marked contrast to child protection. The starting point is the Department of Health guidance entitled “No Secrets” which is statutory guidance that local …

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NHS Regulator to Oversee Care Home Operators

Following the collapse of Southern Cross the Department of Health is making plans to put Monitor, the NHS economic regulator, in control of adult social care. Whilst bonds will required to protect against financial failure, councils could face public reprimand for paying below-cost rates to private operators so as to cross-subsidise in-house services. With concerns …

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Council failed to protect woman in failing care home

Bristol Council has been slammed for failing to protect an older person with dementia who was left in a zero-rated care home that the authority had identified as having serious safeguarding problems. The local government ombudsman said earlier action by the council “may well have prevented an appalling incident” in December 2008, in which Mrs …

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Consultation: Registration of Primary Medical Services Providers by the Care Quality Commission

A Consultation on a Proposed Change in the Date of Registration This consultation document sets out proposals for a change to the timing of the registration of NHS GP practices with the Care Quality Commission from 2012 to 2013. This will not change the timing of registration of dedicated NHS GP out of hours providers …

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