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Castlebeck and CQC – Brief Thoughts

I don’t have time for a long post today, just a few brief thoughts that came to me as I considered the unsurprisingly critical report on Castlebeck by the CQC. Of course it’s easy to be wise after the event but it leaves a bitter taste in the mouth when...

Published 29 Jul 2011 7:04 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: adult care, BBC, Care Quality Commission, castlebeck, cqc, Disability, health, Home Care, long-term care, nursing home, Ofsted, panorama, paul burstow, personal, social care, social work, work
Light Touch Inspections, Winterbourne View and the CQC

There was a report on the Community Care website on Friday that the CQC were ‘calling time’ on their so-called light touch inspection ‘regime’ thereby rolling out potentially to annual inspections for adult services and care homes. As the article emphasises...

Published 19 Jul 2011 7:39 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: BBC, bower, care in the community, Care Quality Commission, cqc, cynthia bower, Disability, Inspection, light touch inspection, long-term care, nursing home, panorama, paul burstow, personal, social care, social work, winterbourne view, winterview, work
Eligibility, Birmingham and Cuts

While awaiting the details of the court judgement, there was an important ruling yesterday that Birmingham Council’s attempt to limit eligibility to social care services to those who have ‘critical’ care needs is unlawful. Drawing out some of the definitions...

Published 21 Apr 2011 6:37 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: BBC, Birmingham City Council, Disability, discrimination, elderly, England, learning disability, local authority, local government, mental health, old age, older people, personal, personal care, politics, respite care, social care, social issues, social services, social work, social worker, socialcare, uk, United Kingdom, work
Inspections and the CQC

I was interested to see that Mark Easton in his BBC blog, touched on the issue of residential care and the confusion in the regulatory system. He talks about a man, Dave, who needed to place his mother in a … Continue reading → Read More....

Published 11 Mar 2011 6:42 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: adult social care, BBC, care home inspections, Care of residents, Care Quality Commission, elderly, HealthWatch, imcompetence of inspections, local authority, local government, long-term care, Mark Easton, mental health, nursing home, old age, older people, personal, politics, social care, social issues, social work, work
Changes in the NHS – initial thoughts

I’ll write more about the government proposals to reform the NHS after the Health and SOCIAL CARE Bill is published tomorrow. Oh yes, did anyone pick up that slight subtlety there that it is supposedly covering social care as well … Continue reading...

Published 18 Jan 2011 6:23 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: andrew lansley, BBC, david cameron, General practitioner, gp, gp commissioning, health, health and social care, mental health, National Health Service, nhs and social care bill 2011, nhs reforms, personal, politics, social care, social issues, social work, work
Attitudes to Disability

Yesterday, the BBC published a survey commissioned by ComRes to mark the 40th anniversary of the ‘Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970’ which was the first piece of legislation that recognised ‘disability’ It is hard to imagine that it …...

Published 30 Nov 2010 5:19 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Alf Morris, attitude survey, BBC, chronically sick and disabled persons act, ComRes, Disability, Disabled, discrimination, Employment, government, invisible disability, personal, politics, social care, social issues, social work, uk, work
On Failing Care Homes

Today, the BBC report on a statement by Unison, who represent the inspectors who work for the CQC (Care Quality Commission), explaining how failing care homes will be able to thrive under the ‘cost-saving’ exercises which are the utterly despicable …...

Published 9 Nov 2010 6:47 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: andrew lansley, BBC, Care Quality Commission, care uk donation, cqc, cynthia bower, cynthia bowers, elderly, Home Care, local authority, long-term care, mental health, nursing care, nursing home, old age, older people, personal, politics, poor quality residential care, Secretary of State for Health, social care, social issues, social work, work
Lessons from the Care Sector

One of the flagship policies of this new coalition government and one mentioned in the Spending Review is about outsourcing services from directly provided in-house type provision to a tendering out type market led style of outsourcing services. This...

Published 26 Oct 2010 7:35 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: ambition 24, BBC, carer, Disability, discrimination, elderly, health, jamie merrett, local authority, long-term care, National Health Service, nhs, nurse, nursing agencies, nursing care, old age, older people, personal, politics, social care, social issues, social work, violetta aylward, work
BBC Four’s ‘Out of Mind Season’

I mentioned last week a programme ‘Sectioned’ which is on this coming Wednesday. This is part of a season which is starting tonight on BBC4 related to mental health. It started with a rerun of Stephen Fry’s ‘Secret Life of a Manic Depressive’ with the...

Published 17 May 2010 7:03 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: BBC, BBC4, health, mental a history of the madhouse, mental health, mental health season, Open University, out of mind season, sectioned, she's been away, Stephen Fry, work
America’s Medicated Kids

Tonight at 9pm on BBC2, in America’s Medicated Kids, Louis Theroux takes a look takes a look the increasingly tendency in the US to medicate young children. He travels to the Western Psychiatric Institute in Pittsburgh which is described as a leading...

Published 18 Apr 2010 6:40 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: BBC, health, Louis Theroux, mental health, personal, social care, social issues
Medication and Care Homes

Today, the BBC is reporting on a research study from the University of London which finds that seven out of ten residents out of the 256 residents in 55 different care homes were subject to errors in their medication regime. The summary of the report...

Published 6 Oct 2009 6:49 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: BBC, discrimination, elderly, health, local authority, local government, long-term care, medication, medication management in residential care, nursing care and medication, old age, older people, personal, politics, residential care, social care, social issues, social work, uk, work
Research and Tests

It has been widely reported over the last day, at any rate, that there has been a new breakthrough in research into the causes of Alzheimer’s and that three specific gene mutations have been identified as being present in almost 100,000 of Alzheimer’s...

Published 7 Sep 2009 6:54 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: alzheimers, Alzheimer's disease, bang goes the theory, BBC, dementia, elderly, health, health care, mental health, old age, older people, Research, research into alzheimer's, tv experiments, work
Morale

The BBC is reporting as I type that Unison is saying that morale among social workers is at an all-time low. Again. I wonder how much lower it can actually sink for this to stop being a news story. I’m still on the recovery trail and feeling a little...

Published 3 Aug 2009 7:21 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: BBC, local authority, member of parliament, NSPCC, social care, social work, work
Music to my ears

Here’s a pleasant story from the BBC. Music affects positively both physical and mental health. I don’t suppose this will surprise anyone who thinks about it too much as I know it is certainly the case for me (well, as far as mood is concerned anyway...

Published 23 Jun 2009 6:02 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: American Heart Association, BBC, Blood pressure, Circulatory system, health, Music, music and health, old age, Pavia University, social issues, work
Balls to Balls

Yesterday Ball announced a plan to ‘transform’ social work and inject £58 million into the system. This came as the government responded to Laming’s report following the ‘Baby P’ tragedy. Although actually it isn’t about transforming social work – it...

Published 7 May 2009 6:32 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: BBC, child social work, children and families social work, Conservatives, Ed Balls, health, local authority, local government, personal, politics, poor morale, social care, social work, social work taskforce, Tim Loughton, uk, work
Bank Holiday Mix

It’s a Bank Holiday here today so I’ve just cobbled together a few links that caught my eye. PsychCentral lists 12 Great Things about Twitter – and of course, you can follow me here! Personally, I found it took me a while to get into it but...

Published 4 May 2009 6:43 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: baby p, BBC, Haringey, health, links, men's mental health, mental health, Mind, panorama, social care, social issues, social work, spikol, Twitter, work
Crown Cleared

I saw on the BBC that the Crown Nursing Home in Harwell was cleared of the responsibility of the death of eight of the residents in January. As I was so quick to condemn, it’s only right that I raise this again. I wrote about it previously here. I want...

Published 20 Mar 2009 5:15 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: BBC, Care Quality Commission, Commission for Social Care Inspection, crown residential home, elderly, hanwell, health, long-term care, old age, older people, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire County Council, social care, social work, Southern Cross Healthcare Group, uk, work
What’s in a name?

Carol Thatcher has, amid much publicity, been ‘removed’ from ‘The One Show’ after making an racist comment in the show’s Green Room - namely she referred to a black tennis player as being a ‘golliwog’. Note to...

Published 6 Feb 2009 6:02 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: BBC, Carol Thatcher, carol thatcher sacked, discrimination, golliwog, Green Room, idiocy, insensitivity, Jonathan Ross, One Show, political correctness, refusal to apologise, social issues, Television program, work
Voting for a President

If you’re feeling a bit left out on the election stakes, there’s a site called If the world could vote? where you, too, can cast a vote in the US Presidential Elections from outside the US. I heard about the site on the BBC but can’t...

Published 17 Oct 2008 6:41 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Barack Obama, BBC, Burkina Faso, election, government, John McCain, Macedonia, Republic of Macedonia, social issues, vote, world voting
Alzheimer’s Wonder Drug?

The BBC reported yesterday that a new drug treatment is being trialled through research at Aberdeen University that seems to be having a significant impact on the root causes of Alzheimer’s. The link between clumps or “tangles” of protein...

Published 30 Jul 2008 7:00 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Aberdeen University, Alzheimer, Alzheimer's disease, Alzheimer's Research Trust, BBC, dementia, health, medication, new drugs, old age, older people, United Kingdom

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