Half of learning disability services not meeting core standards
Half of the learning disability services inspected by the Care Quality Commission in the wake of Winterbourne View are not meeting essential standards on safeguarding residents and caring for them. The CQC said the findings were a cause for concern.
18 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
CQC: Personalisation lacking in Winterbourne-style services
Many learning disability hospitals and care homes are failing to provide person-centred care, the Care Quality Commission has found in its national review triggered by the Winterbourne View case.
08 February 2012
CQC staff 'demoralised' by workloads and lack of training
Care Quality Commission staff have been left demoralised and concerned for the safety of services by high workloads and inadequate training, a survey of Unison members has found.
04 April 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
UKHCA outlines the rules on rest periods for homecare workers
Colin Angel, policy and campaigns director of the United Kingdom Homecare Association, outlines the association's position regarding the rest periods domiciliary care staff should take while working
02 November 2011
Monitoring duplication blights care home managers' lives
Care home managers are finding their time increasingly taken up by multiple information requests as councils, primary care trusts and the Care Quality Commission each look to monitor standards. Jeremy Dunning reports
18 October 2011
Government will not 'prop up' failing care providers
The government will not prop up care providers whose businesses have failed, in the wake of the Southern Cross case.
10 October 2011
Ministers under pressure to ditch adult care excellence award
Ministers and the Care Quality Commission are coming under pressure to ditch the planned "excellence award" scheme for adult care providers after the idea was universally condemned by sector bodies in a consultation.
06 August 2011
CQC did not check learning disability hospitals for months
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) did not inspect independent learning disability hospitals, such as Winterbourne View, where the BBC's Panorama revealed significant abuse recently, for four months last winter.
05 August 2011
Scotland and Wales look to register domiciliary workers
National regulators in Scotland and Wales want to start registering domiciliary care workers as soon as possible to raise standards and ensure the safety...
03 May 2011
Panorama: Burstow orders probe into CQC and council failings
Care services minister Paul Burstow has ordered investigations into regulatory and safeguarding failings by the Care Quality Commission and local authorities in relation to the abuse of learning disabled people uncovered by Panorama yesterday.
05 August 2011
Home care breaches human rights, finds equality watchdog
Home care services in the UK are breaching older people’s human rights, the Equality and Human Rights Commission warned today.
05 August 2011
CQC delivers poor value for money, says provider leader
The Care Quality Commission has been accused of offering poor value after it raised providers' fees while slashing the number of inspections it carries out.
05 August 2011
CQC to outsource new care ratings system
The Care Quality Commission is to outsource delivery of its new care ratings system to several accreditation bodies to give providers a choice of schemes to measure themselves against, it said today.
03 May 2011
Southern Cross crisis prompts call for regulator
The Southern Cross Healthcare case has highlighted the need for an economic regulator to monitor the finances of larger private care providers, experts have said.
01 September 2011
