The Local Government Association (LGA), alongside the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services and Society of Local Authority Chief Executives, have submitted a proposal calling for a national care loans scheme to help people meet the cost of care in their old age. The deferred payment scheme would work similarly to student loans with …
The House of Lords committee on the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) have been warned by CQC, social workers and senior practitioners that more needs to be done to aid interpretation and implementation of the MCA and DoLS. Speaking to the committee, the CQC revealed they had written to a number of local authorities raising concerns …
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A consultation by the Welsh Government is currently open titled ‘The Future of Regulation and Inspection of Care and Support in Wales’. The changes outlined in the White Paper will support the proposals in the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Bill. The Welsh Government say they intend build a responsive and sustainable system with citizens’ …
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From today onwards, Ofsted are toughening up their inspection regime for nurseries and pre-school facilities. Only those services rated as outstanding or good will be exempt from intervention. The changes will bring the inspection of nurseries and pre-schools in line with the inspection of primary and secondary education establishments. It removes the rating of ‘satisfactory’ …
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Andrea Sutcliffe, the Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care, has today outlined her priorities for CQC’s new system for monitoring, inspecting and regulating adult social care services, with a clear focus on public involvement and improvement. The new system will be officially launched next Autumn. Services will be given an Ofsted-style rating of outstanding, good, …
Tomorrow CQC are due to announce a package of intended changes to the way they will regulate registered services. The new Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care, Andrea Sutcliffe, has announced her plans for ‘experts by experience’ to play a central role in her radical overhaul of care sector regulation. Some of the main changes …
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A worryingly high number of A&E doctors are suffering from excessive pressure and burnout due to “intolerable” work pressures, such as being on-call regularly and the complexity of work they handle, potentially putting patients at risk, emergency unit specialists have warned. The future of staffing of emergency departments is in question, as a result of …
Leading care organisations in England support a new ‘Social Care Commitment’ that care workers will be asked to sign up to as a mark of their professionalism which has the aim of raising public confidence in care services throughout England. Healthcare professionals will be asked to sign up to seven statements developed from an extensive …
According to a recent survey undertaken by the CQC, community mental health care needs to improve in terms of involving people in their own care plans and making decisions about medication. The CQC considered the views of more than 13,000 service users and found that many of them did not have a care plan or …
A report from Alzheimer’s Disease International has revealed that the number of elderly people requiring care is likely to rise to 277 million globally by 2050, nearly three times the current figure of 101 million. The author of the report, Prof Martin Prince, from King’s College London’s Institute of Psychiatry, warns of a ‘global Alzheimer’s …
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