This week the CQC have announced that they are going to start phasing in the changes relating to how they inspect health and social care services from next week. This follows a consultation by CQC into how it regulates providers of these services. The main changes include an increase in general CQC inspections of services, …
Macmillan Cancer support warns that morality rates amongst older people with cancer are too high. It says doctors frequently give treatment plans purely based on a patient’s age, ignoring individual needs. Cancer mortality rates for people aged 74-84 in the UK are improving much more slowly than for younger patients, it said, and are rising …
An independent report published by the consumer group Which? has labelled the standards of care for elderly people receiving care in their home as “shocking and disgraceful”. The care has been described as rushed and inadequate, with some home visits being missed completely without any advanced warning. Other cases demonstrated elderly people being left in …
Many doctors are failing to visit elderly patients in care homes. Instead, they are diagnosing patients over the telephone which care home owners believe is insufficient and dangerous. The English Community Care Association believes that nearly one third of residents could be missing out on the full range of GP services they are entitled to. …
On Wednesday the CQC published a review on how the health care needs of people living in care homes are met. The review addresses how service users access healthcare services, the level of choice and control that they have and whether the care they receive is safe and respects their dignity. The idea was to develop …
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A recent study published by the CQC and the British Geriatrics Society has shown that the healthcare needs of elderly service users are being neglected in some Primary Care Trusts. The majority of PCT’s assess the needs of people who live in their own homes. This means that the needs of service users living in …
Prime Minister David Cameron has defended NHS reform plans. He said that the need for change was ‘unavoidable and urgent’. However, various NHS specialists have voiced a range of concerns about the government’s Health Bill outlining reforms to the NHS. In response to the proposed legislation many primary care trusts feel that Andrew Lansley’s changes …
The draft report and recommendations from the Commission on Improving Dignity in Care was published last week. It outlines ten key recommendations for hospitals and care homes to help them tackle the underlying causes of undignified care. The aim of the report is to examine how care for the elderly can be improved through increasing …
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Understandably, all the recent headlines about CQC have been around the resignation of CQC’s Chief Executive, Cynthia Bower, although she will not be departing until September 2012. Her resignation coincided with the publication of the Department’s Performance and Capability Review of CQC. While light on detail, it does give some interesting pointers to the likely …
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On 15 February 2012, the CQC Board discussed the proposals for the reform of the CQC judgement framework and the enforcement policy following the recent consultation. Some of the major proposed changes are set out below. The end of Improvement actions One of the key proposals is to stop setting improvement actions given CQC’s admission …
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