In the last year Ridouts has seen many providers switch over from paper records to electronic care systems. It appears that across the sector there is a push to transition to paperless care recording. It has been said that this will allow providers to improve governance within their services, achieve better compliance with the regulations, …
Electronic Care Recording – The New Standard in Monitoring Care? Read More »
The Care Inspectorate, the national regulator for care services in Scotland released its quarterly figures last week. The third quarter figures 2019/2020, which include data up to the end of December 2019, indicate that whilst complaints to the regulator are on the rise, enforcement action remains relatively static. The number of complaints received by the …
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The Care Quality Commission has recently published a report entitled ‘The State of Adult Social Care Service 2014 to 2017; Findings from CQC’s initial programme of comprehensive inspections in adult social care’. The report contains conclusions published by CQC between October 2014 and May 2017 of 33,000 inspections it had undertaken of adult social care …
Caring Times – State of Care report: regulator shares its findings Read More »
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