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Integrated teams required to deliver healthcare in care homes
Multi-disciplinary teams should be set up to ensure that care home residents get the healthcare services that they need, says Professor Finbarr Martin, president of the British Geriatrics Society.
22 May 2012
Filling the gap for learning disabled people with dementia
The number of people with learning disabilities who develop dementia is growing fast, but there is a lack of specialist support, says psychiatrist Shekhar Mukherji, director of Mentaur Ltd, which has just opened a service for the client group.
22 May 2012
How to check whether your services are good enough
Providers must ensure their internal compliance mechanisms go beyond checklists to avoid poor practice, says consultant and former Care Quality Commission inspector Sughra Nazir.
27 March 2012
Care providers challenged to stop bidding for low-fee tenders
Care providers should cease bidding for council contracts at prices they feel are too low to deliver the specified service, incoming Association of Directors of Adult Social Services president Sarah Pickup has said.
20 April 2012
Care homes urged to share good practice
Care homes are being urged to share examples of good practice to help shape wider improvements to services.
17 February 2012
Hospital visits lower for care home than home care clients
Care home residents are less likely to end up in hospital than users of intensive home care, research has revealed. (Image: Alamy)
29 March 2012
Deprivation of liberty safeguards guide for care homes
Care homes sometimes find it difficult to identify when they are depriving a resident of their liberty. Here deprivation of liberty safeguards expert John Leighton sets out what they need to look out for.
07 November 2011
CQC: Care homes failing to train staff in deprivation of liberty
Many care homes have failed to provide staff with appropriate deprivation of liberty safeguards training, leading to poor practice and human rights breaches, the Care Quality Commission warned today. (Image: Rex)
27 March 2012
Social worker deprivation of liberty assessments unmonitored
The Care Quality Commission has raised concerns over the protection of vulnerable adults because of its inability to monitor deprivation of liberty assessments by social workers and other professionals. (Image: Milton Montenegro/Photodisc/Getty Images)
27 March 2012
Panorama: CQC inspection regime slammed following abuse
The Care Quality Commission's risk-based approach to regulating care services has been called into question, following revelations of abuse of people with learning disabilities in a specialist hospital.
05 August 2011
How service users are leading response to Winterbourne View
In the wake of Winterbourne View, the Care Quality Commission employed 27 adults with learning disabilities to act as ‘experts by experience’ in the teams inspecting 150 learning disability services. Two of them discuss their experiences.
20 March 2012
Care home residents lack access to healthcare
Care home residents are struggling to get access to GPs and routine medicines, and more than half of primary care trusts do not offer access to the full range of health services residents may need, a report warns today. (Image: Rex Features)
07 March 2012
Poor staffing levels undermine human rights in nursing homes
Poor staffing levels are undermining human rights in nursing homes by creating an "accepted indignity" in which residents are left wet or soiled for lengthy periods until staff become available. (Image: Alamy)
06 March 2012
Many deprived of liberty without safeguards, warn experts
Many vulnerable service users are being deprived of their liberty without safeguards because of the narrow scope of the law, experts have warned.
29 February 2012
Research: Protecting adults at risk across council boundaries
The Social Care Institute for Excellence has worked with London councils, the police and the NHS to produce guidelines on safeguarding adults
30 September 2011
Boost status of care staff and managers, says dignity inquiry
The status of care home managers and staff must be boosted to improve dignity for older people, an inquiry into the issue has concluded. (Image: Alamy)
29 February 2012
'Fundamental change needed to improve elderly care'
Residents and relatives should be given a direct say in the running of care homes, according to a report examining how care for the elderly could be improved. (Image: Rex Features)
29 February 2012
Campaign to boost status of care service managers launched
A campaign has been launched to raise the "disappointing" status of registered care managers to ensure they are regarded as "recognised professionals" on a par with doctors, nurses and social workers.
02 November 2011
Scie: Using the internet to improve social care
Ross Oldfield, co-ordinator of the Social Care Institute for Excellence's Get Connected project (left) , explains how providers can improve social care through the use of the internet.
01 November 2011
How care home staff can improve research into dementia
Care home staff and residents need to become more involved in research if the quality of life of people with dementia is to improve, and a new toolkit shows them how they can, says Jill Manthorpe.
13 February 2012
