On 22 June 2022, the UK’s Health authorities declared a national incident regarding the detection of the polio virus in London sewage and as such, have informed the World Health Organisation (“WHO”). This is following the United Kingdom’s Health Security Agency (“UKHSA”) finding traces of the polio virus in samples collected from the London Beckton …
The UKSA has reported that Norovirus, typically referred to as a ‘winter bug’, is on the rise in care homes. Reported cases rose from 24 in the week commencing 7 February 2022 to 40 in the following week (w/c 14 February). This is a highly transmissible bug with symptoms such as nausea and diarrhoea. The …
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CQC has confirmed that it will publish data relating to notifications received from individual care homes relating to deaths of people with COVID-19 between 10 April 2020 and 31 March 2021. This is in addition to the data CQC already publishes on a weekly basis with ONS on the total number of care home service …
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In August 2020, CQC introduced specific Infection Prevention Control (“IPC”) inspections. IPC continues to be a current ‘hot topic’ of interest to CQC and it tends to be inspected under Regulation 12 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 and assessed as part of CQC’s key question, ‘Is your service …
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The Government has said that from 12 April care home residents will be allowed two regular visitors indoors. Currently care home residents can have just one face-to-face visitor, but this will increase to two as part of the next stage of lockdown easing. Other changes include visitors being able to bring babies and toddlers which …
On 1 April 2021, Helen Hayes (Labour, Dulwich and West Norwood) asked the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care the written question, “…what assessment he has made of the effect of the Infection Control Fund on supporting care homes with their infection prevention control measures during the covid-19 outbreak; and what assessment he …
UPDATE: This article has been updated since it was first published on 4 January 2021 and since it was updated on 18 January 2021. The time of writing this article is 23 March 2021. During a December 2020 Ridouts’ webinar (Videos – Ridouts Solicitors) a healthcare provider asked the question, “Do you think it will …
To say it’s been a tough year would be a shameful understatement. The health and social care sector has been tested like never before. Day after day we have been presented with harrowing statistics on how COVID-19 has tightened its grip on the world but amongst the bad news and escalating fear, we have seen …
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The CQC has provided an update on the care homes deemed to have the required arrangements in place which it believes are suitable to accept people that have been discharged from hospital with COVID-19. There are a little over 3,000 approved beds of this nature across the country, which is clearly positive and means that …
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In the wake of the pandemic, the CQC changed its entire approach to inspections in order to limit inspectors “crossing the threshold”. The CQC initiated remote monitoring through initial conversations with Providers which could result in a site visit if the CQC had concerns, and enforcement action if the CQC found the service to be …
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