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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
Goodbye Southern Cross, Hello Open Public Services

So Southern Cross – the largest private care home provider in the UK will be closed. What of the 31,000 residents who live in their properties? Well, the government has given us its assurance that they will be ok so that’s alright then. Or not. m kasahara...

Published 12 Jul 2011 7:05 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: big society, care, Care Quality Commission, david cameron, Department of Health, elderly, GMB (trade union), government, health, local authority, long-term care, nursing home, old age, older people, open public services white paper, opswp, personal, politics, Public services, social care, social work, Southern Cross, Southern Cross Healthcare Group, uk, uk government, White paper, work
Mrs J and the Mystery Bristol Care Home

There is a story on the Community Care website this morning about an ombudsman’s report relating a woman, Mrs J, who was placed in a care home in Bristol. lovestruck@flickr This was a care home which was not only rated ‘poor’ or had no stars under the...

Published 21 Jun 2011 6:34 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: bristol, care homes in bristol, Care Quality Commission, carer, Commission for Social Care Inspection, csci, dementia, elderly, Home Care, local government, Local Government Ombudsman, long-term care, mental health, nursing home, old age, older people, personal, politics, social care, social work, Standard of care, work
Distractions and Uncertainty

Of Local Distractions I met one of the hospital social workers earlier this week. We don’t actually catch up with each other very often but when we do we always make a point of hanging around in whatever corridor we bump into each other in and chat. This...

Published 9 Jun 2011 6:54 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Burgess Park, Care Quality Commission, cqc, Disability, elderly, Inspection, local authority, london, long-term care, National Health Service, nursing home, old age, older people, personal, politics, social care, social work, Southern Cross, southern cross healthcare, Tower Bridge, work
CQC and Southern Cross – a retrospective

I’ve bemoaned both the changes in the CQC and the financial troubles of Southern Cross over the last few years since I started writing this blog. For today, a bit of a ‘lazy post’ – I thought I’d collate all the posts that I’d made on those two subjects...

Published 7 Jun 2011 6:58 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Barbara Young, Care Quality Commission, cqc, csci, elderly, health and social care, links, long-term care, nursing home, old age, older people, personal, social care, social issues, social work, social work links, Southern Cross, Southern Cross Healthcare Group, work
Winterbourne View – Where were the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards?

One of the many things that have been concerning me since the Panorama programme about abuse within the Winterbourne View hospital for adults with learning disabilities was aired was the way that the safeguards implemented under the Mental Capacity Act...

Published 6 Jun 2011 6:45 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: abuse in residential care, adult protection, adult safeguarding, best interests assessment, Best Interests Assessor, bia, Care Quality Commission, deprivation of liberty safeguards, dols, health, local authority, long-term care, MCA, mental capacity, mental capacity act, mental health, mental health legislation, nursing home, panorama, personal, politics, residential care, social care, social services, social work, social worker, training, winterborne, winterbourne view, work
What makes a good care worker?

I haven’t been able to shake off the Panorama programme about the abusive care environment at Winterbourne View. We spent quite a lot of time talking about it at work yesterday as well, at meetings and in the office. It has pushed my mind back to the...

Published 2 Jun 2011 7:11 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Abuse, Care Quality Commission, care work, care worker, carer, carers, cqc, Disability, elderly, health, institutional abuse, local authority, long-term care, management in residential care, old age, older people, panorama, paul burstow, personal, residential care, social care, social work, support worker, winterbourne view, work
Undercover Care : The abuse exposed – A Review of Panorama

I sat down to watch Panorama yesterday and the trailers and name of the programme were something of a giveaway so I wasn’t exactly unprepared for what was shown. Panorama had been alerted to abuse within Winterbourne View near Bristol, which is a private...

Published 1 Jun 2011 6:57 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Abuse, abuse exposed, abuse of vulnerable adults, bristol, burstow, Care Quality Commission, castleview, cqc, Disability, discrimination, health, hospital, learning disability, local authority, long-term care, MCA, mental health act 1983, mental capacity act, mental health, nurse, panorama, personal, politics, private hospital, section 44, social work, undercover care, winterbourne, winterbourne view, work
Which Care? What Care?

Another day, another story of sub-standard care in residential homes in the UK. Today, the Guardian publish a story which relates to a Which? investigation It explains some of the way the survey was conducted In the most extreme case, … Continue...

Published 19 Apr 2011 7:05 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: care homes, Care Quality Commission, cynthia bower, cynthia bowers, dementia, elderly, health, Home Care, Jo Williams, local authority, long-term care, mental health, Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, NHS strategic health authority, nursing home, old age, older people, personal, politics, social care, social issues, social services, social work, Stafford Hospital, uk, which investigation, Which?, work
Negligence and Care – Kersal Mount Care Home

A nursing home in Sheffield, Kersal Mount, yesterday admitted it was negligent in the treatment of a Doreen Betts, 78, who was left to suffer with with pressure sores for three months and who eventually died of an infection caused … Continue reading...

Published 15 Apr 2011 6:29 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Bedsore, Care Quality Commission, cqc, dementia, doreen betts, elderly, health, Inspection, kersal mount care home, local authority, neglect in care home, nursing home, old age, older people, personal, Sheffield, sheffield residential home, social care, social work, socialcare, Standard of care, the laurels and the limes care home, work
The State of Healthcare and Adult Social Care in England – a brief glance and thoughts

Yesterday the CQC published their report ‘The State of Healthcare and Adult Social Care in England’. I have to try and put my criticisms of the CQC and their increasingly lax regulatory process to one side, although I couldn’t help … Continue reading...

Published 30 Mar 2011 7:11 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Care Quality Commission, cqc, cqc report, Disability, elderly, health, health and social care, local authority, long-term care, mental health act 1983, mental health, old age, older people, personal, personal budget, politics, Public services, social care, social issues, social work, state of healthcare in england, state of social care in england, 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
Excellence Ratings for Care Homes

Yesterday, the government announced the unveiling of a new ‘gold standard’ or excellence rating for care homes. This is supposed to address some of the poor care that is delivered through local authority funded care. I have my doubts. Not … Continue...

Published 1 Mar 2011 6:48 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: care homes, Care of residents, Care Quality Commission, cqc, cynthia bower, elderly, excellence ratings for care homes, excellence standards, gold standards for care homes, government, health, health and social care, incompetence of cqc, Independent, local authority, long-term care, nursing care, nursing home, old age, older people, personal, politics, residential care, social care, social issues, social work, work
Scrutiny, CQC and ADASS

Yesterday, I read on the Community Care website that ADASS (Association of Directors of Adult Social Services.. and Housing Departments or whatever else they direct these days) are seeking a meeting with the CQC (Care Quality Commission) about ‘a new...

Published 15 Feb 2011 6:44 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: adass, Care Quality Commission, cqc, Disability, elderly, health, local authority, local government, National Health Service, nhs, old age, older people, outcome measurement, personal, personal budget, politics, Quality assurance, social care, social issues, social work, transparency in outcomes, work
Johann Hari’s manifesto for change in care homes

A week or so ago, Johann Hari, a journalist and columnist for the Independent, wrote an article about his grandmother and the poor to verging on abusive care pathway that she experienced through devastatingly shoddy system that was and is … Continue...

Published 26 Jan 2011 5:53 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Alzheimer's Society, Care Quality Commission, cqc, cynthia bower, dementia, elderly, health, Home Care, Johann Hari, local authority, long-term care, mental health, nursing home, old age, older people, paul burstow, personal, politics, social care, social issues, social work, the independent, work
St Michael’s Manor/Mount – Woolton

I wonder how bad a care home has to be to have definitive action taken against it. I came across this story in the Liverpool Echo referring to St Michael’s Manor Nursing Home in Woolton, near Liverpool. The home received … Continue reading →...

Published 10 Dec 2010 5:43 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Care Quality Commission, elderly, Food safety, Inspector, james mutch, Liverpool Echo, long-term care, Mary Potter, nursing home, old age, older people, personal, social care, st michael's manor nursing home, st michael's mount nursing home, Woolton, 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
Trouble at the CQC

A lot of people working within the social care sector have had misgivings about some of the changes that have been taking place at the CQC (care quality commission). The CQC is responsible for monitoring and registering care services (as … Continue...

Published 3 Nov 2010 6:41 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Care Quality Commission, compassion in care, cqc, cynthia bower, eileen chubb, elderly, health care, Home Care, local authority, long-term care, nursing home, old age, older people, personal, politics, private eye, social care, social issues, social work, Southern Cross, Southern Cross Healthcare Group, Standard of care, work
Closing Care Homes

Community Care reports that the CQC yesterday released figures stating that 42 adult care services (that would be care homes and home care agencies) have been closed over the last year following action taken by the registration authority. A further …...

Published 30 Sep 2010 7:04 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: care home closures, care homes, care of the elderly, Care Quality Commission, carer, carers, cqc, domestic agencies, elderly, local authority, long-term care, mental health, old age, older adults, older people, personal, politics, public sector, residential homes, social care, social issues, social work, uk, work
Can Gerry Robinson Fix Dementia Care Homes?

This evening, BBC2 are running the first of a series of two programmes about the state of dementia residential (and presumably nursing) care in the UK. Gerry Robinson, a successful businessman, who, in 2007 brought us ‘Can Gerry Robinson Fix the NHS?...

Published 8 Dec 2009 6:09 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: bbc2, can gerry robinson fix dementia care homes, Care Quality Commission, carer, carers, cqc, dementia, dementia care, elderly, gerry robinson, local authority, long-term care, mental health, old age, older people, personal, social care, social issues, social work, television, work
Decisions

Sometimes the most frustrating aspect of working with adult protection (or rather, safeguarding adults procedures as I believe the common parlance is now) is the lack of ‘places to go’ when there is a lack of hard evidence of abusive behaviour. It is...

Published 22 May 2009 6:09 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: adult abuse, best interests decision, Care Quality Commission, Conditions and Diseases, dementia, elderly, health, long-term care, MCA, mca 2005, Mental Capacity Act 2005, mental health, nursing home, old age, older people, safeguarding adults, social care, social issues, social work, uk, work
My First Best Interests Assessment

Yesterday I completed my first Best Interests Assessment since the relatively new Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards went live on 1 April 2009. In brief these assessments grew from the need to clarify the legal position of those who lack capacity when...

Published 18 Apr 2009 7:06 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: AMHP, assessment, best interests assessment, Best Interests Assessor, bia, Care Quality Commission, dementia, deprivation of liberties, deprivation of liberties safeguards, dols, dols assessment, General practitioner, health, local authority, long-term care, MCA, mental capacity act, Mental Capacity Act 2005, mental health, mental health act assessment, old age, older people, social work, work
Britain’s Homecare Scandal

I saw Panorama last night. It was an undercover report into the poor state of home care services provided to elderly people in their own homes by a few private companies. I wish I could say some of the findings surprised me, but they didn’t. Some of the...

Published 10 Apr 2009 5:41 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: bbc1, Care Quality Commission, Commission for Social Care Inspection, cqc, csci, direct payments, domiciliary care, elderly, health, Home Care, home care agency, local authority, local government, old age, older people, panorama, poor home care, social care, social issues, social work, uk, work
DoLs, IMHAs and CQC

Lots of jargon and initials today. I should apologise in advance but they are certainly new phrases and words that will be becoming ever more familiar. Sidelong @ flickr As, 1 April 2009 sees the implementation of three new nuggets of legislation which...

Published 1 Apr 2009 7:06 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Best Interests Assessor, Care Quality Commission, Commission for Social Care Inspection, cqc, England, Healthcare Commission, imha, independent mental health advocate, long-term care, MCA, Mental Capacity Act 2005, mental health, Mental Health Act Commission, National Health Service, social care, social work, work
Crisis and Discrimination

We had a meeting with our crisis team a couple of weeks ago. There is a general perception that they don’t like taking referrals for over 65s. It has increasingly developed into something of an ‘us and them’ situation so an attempt at some kind of reconciliary...

Published 31 Mar 2009 6:13 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: ageism, Care Quality Commission, crisis resolution team, crisis team, health, health care, health care discrimination, Healthcare Commission, hospital, Mental disorder, mental health, 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

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