Be in no doubt! The CQC is engaged in the greatest “power grab” yet seen in Health and Social Care. It is comparable to the imperial aspirations of Genghis Khan or Napoleon. Whatever may be the attractions of the soft sell benefits of CQC’s actions, this is plain wrong. It is a strategy to convert …
According to HSJ, at the end of February there was a strong suggestion that the NHS could seek to effect a saving by discharging patients into private domestic accommodation provided by property owners with no care qualifications. There is said to be a safeguarding concern; what a surprise! On the face of it swapping NHS …
Care B+B – As published in Health Service Journal Read More »
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As first published in the HSJ Insight and Influence Channel. We are in mid-Winter. We were told the NHS was never better prepared. A significant ‘flu “epidemic”, relatively unusual cold conditions and a difficult Christmas (most of which were unpredictable) have all intervened. Confidence has been shattered. We have all viewed images, designed to be …
HSJ Insight and Influence Channel – Winter Pressures- A Partial Solution Read More »
How do I manage the relative from hell? You’ve all had one! Turns up at antisocial hours! Interferes in care; upsets the staff; makes constant complaints without basis; instructs care changes against professional advice. These are difficult problems and need firm and fair handling. Make sure you document any event- facts, times and dates (use …
Ask the Expert – Care Home Professional Magazine Read More »
Between 1995 and 1997 I was engaged in working on 2 hospital PFI schemes. Both went on to complete – one harshly held back by the purdah period that preceded Tony Blair’s first Labour administration. In a sense this was a tall order, an initiative that linked Private Finance with Public Health (the NHS) was …
The last few months have seen continued developments in the vexed question of payment for ‘sleeping rights’. We expressed doubts as to whether the issue was, really, still alive. We were wrong. A decision from the Employment Appeal Tribunal (the EAT) and vacillation from Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC) have left the matter quite …
‘Working or not working?’ – that is the question Read More »
This month I will draw together some operational themes showing trends in practice, in regulation, commissioning and staffing. All of these combine to make a providers’ task more difficult. Regulation CQC and other regulators grow in power. Government encourages the regulator to believe that their judgments are beyond the prospect of error. Senior staff at …
Healthcare Business – Reflections from the front line Read More »
Public bodies serve the public. Increasingly those affected by public authority decisions are aggrieved and seek a remedy. Clearly if the grievance relates to breach of contract or a tort (civil wrong) the public body may be held liable for remedies arising under the common law. Such claims include breach of statutory duty (where such …
Lexis Nexis – Viability of remedies against public authorities Read More »
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