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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: social care, social work, work, long-term care, health, adult care, Home Care, nursing home, BBC, Disability, personal, Ofsted, Care Quality Commission, cqc, panorama, paul burstow, castlebeck
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: social care, social work, work, long-term care, nursing home, BBC, Disability, personal, Inspection, Care Quality Commission, cqc, panorama, care in the community, paul burstow, cynthia bower, winterbourne view, bower, light touch inspection, winterview
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: social care, social work, older people, work, local authority, old age, government, politics, elderly, long-term care, uk, health, Southern Cross, Southern Cross Healthcare Group, nursing home, care, Department of Health, personal, Care Quality Commission, david cameron, White paper, big society, Public services, uk government, GMB (trade union), open public services white paper, opswp
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: social care, social work, older people, dementia, work, mental health, old age, politics, elderly, long-term care, carer, csci, local government, Home Care, nursing home, Commission for Social Care Inspection, personal, Care Quality Commission, Standard of care, bristol, care homes in bristol, Local Government Ombudsman
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: social care, social work, older people, work, local authority, old age, politics, elderly, london, long-term care, Southern Cross, nursing home, National Health Service, Disability, southern cross healthcare, personal, Inspection, Care Quality Commission, cqc, Burgess Park, Tower Bridge
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: social care, social work, social issues, older people, work, old age, elderly, long-term care, csci, Southern Cross, Southern Cross Healthcare Group, nursing home, links, personal, Care Quality Commission, cqc, health and social care, social work links, Barbara Young
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: residential care, social care, social work, work, training, mental health, MCA, mental capacity, local authority, politics, long-term care, health, social services, nursing home, social worker, adult protection, mental capacity act, personal, mental health legislation, Best Interests Assessor, best interests assessment, bia, dols, Care Quality Commission, panorama, deprivation of liberty safeguards, winterbourne view, abuse in residential care, adult safeguarding, winterborne
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: residential care, social care, social work, older people, work, carers, local authority, old age, elderly, long-term care, health, carer, Disability, personal, Abuse, Care Quality Commission, cqc, panorama, paul burstow, winterbourne view, care work, care worker, institutional abuse, management in residential care, support worker
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: social work, work, mental health, MCA, discrimination, learning disability, local authority, politics, long-term care, health, nurse, hospital, mental health act 1983, mental capacity act, Disability, personal, Abuse, Care Quality Commission, cqc, panorama, burstow, abuse exposed, abuse of vulnerable adults, bristol, castleview, private hospital, section 44, undercover care, winterbourne, winterbourne view
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: social care, social work, social issues, older people, dementia, work, mental health, local authority, old age, politics, elderly, long-term care, uk, health, social services, Home Care, nursing home, personal, Care Quality Commission, care homes, cynthia bower, cynthia bowers, Jo Williams, Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, NHS strategic health authority, Stafford Hospital, which investigation, Which?
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: social care, social work, older people, dementia, work, socialcare, local authority, old age, elderly, health, nursing home, personal, Inspection, Care Quality Commission, cqc, Standard of care, Bedsore, doreen betts, kersal mount care home, neglect in care home, Sheffield, sheffield residential home, the laurels and the limes care home
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: social care, social work, social issues, older people, work, mental health, local authority, old age, politics, elderly, long-term care, health, mental health act 1983, Disability, personal, Care Quality Commission, cqc, health and social care, personal budget, Public services, cqc report, state of healthcare in england, state of social care in england
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: social care, social work, social issues, older people, work, mental health, local authority, old age, politics, elderly, long-term care, local government, nursing home, BBC, adult social care, personal, Care of residents, Care Quality Commission, HealthWatch, care home inspections, imcompetence of inspections, Mark Easton
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: residential care, social care, social work, social issues, older people, work, nursing care, local authority, old age, government, politics, elderly, long-term care, health, nursing home, personal, Care of residents, Care Quality Commission, cqc, health and social care, care homes, cynthia bower, excellence ratings for care homes, excellence standards, gold standards for care homes, incompetence of cqc, Independent
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: social care, social work, social issues, older people, work, local authority, old age, politics, elderly, health, nhs, local government, National Health Service, Disability, personal, Care Quality Commission, cqc, personal budget, adass, outcome measurement, Quality assurance, transparency in outcomes
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: social care, social work, social issues, older people, dementia, work, mental health, local authority, old age, politics, elderly, long-term care, health, Home Care, nursing home, Alzheimer's Society, personal, Care Quality Commission, cqc, the independent, paul burstow, cynthia bower, Johann Hari
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: social care, older people, work, old age, elderly, long-term care, nursing home, personal, Care Quality Commission, Food safety, Inspector, james mutch, Liverpool Echo, Mary Potter, st michael's manor nursing home, st michael's mount nursing home, Woolton
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: social care, social work, social issues, older people, work, mental health, nursing care, local authority, old age, politics, elderly, long-term care, Home Care, nursing home, BBC, personal, Secretary of State for Health, Care Quality Commission, cqc, andrew lansley, cynthia bower, care uk donation, cynthia bowers, poor quality residential care
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: social care, social work, social issues, older people, work, local authority, old age, politics, elderly, long-term care, health care, Home Care, Southern Cross, Southern Cross Healthcare Group, nursing home, personal, Care Quality Commission, cqc, compassion in care, cynthia bower, eileen chubb, private eye, Standard of care
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: social care, social work, social issues, older people, work, carers, mental health, local authority, old age, politics, elderly, long-term care, uk, carer, public sector, personal, Care Quality Commission, cqc, care home closures, care homes, care of the elderly, domestic agencies, older adults, residential homes
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: social care, social work, social issues, older people, dementia, work, carers, mental health, local authority, old age, elderly, long-term care, carer, television, dementia care, personal, Care Quality Commission, cqc, bbc2, gerry robinson, can gerry robinson fix dementia care homes
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: social care, social work, social issues, older people, dementia, work, mental health, MCA, old age, elderly, long-term care, uk, health, nursing home, safeguarding adults, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Conditions and Diseases, adult abuse, Care Quality Commission, mca 2005, best interests decision
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: social work, older people, dementia, work, mental health, MCA, local authority, old age, long-term care, assessment, health, mental health act assessment, mental capacity act, Mental Capacity Act 2005, General practitioner, AMHP, Best Interests Assessor, best interests assessment, bia, dols, Care Quality Commission, deprivation of liberties safeguards, dols assessment, deprivation of liberties
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: social care, social work, social issues, older people, work, local authority, old age, elderly, uk, health, csci, direct payments, local government, Home Care, Commission for Social Care Inspection, Care Quality Commission, cqc, panorama, home care agency, domiciliary care, poor home care, bbc1
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: social care, social work, work, mental health, MCA, long-term care, Mental Health Act Commission, National Health Service, Commission for Social Care Inspection, England, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Healthcare Commission, Best Interests Assessor, Care Quality Commission, cqc, imha, independent mental health advocate
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: work, mental health, ageism, health care, health, hospital, Mental disorder, Healthcare Commission, Care Quality Commission, crisis resolution team, health care discrimination, crisis team
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: social care, social work, older people, work, old age, elderly, long-term care, uk, health, Southern Cross Healthcare Group, BBC, Commission for Social Care Inspection, Oxfordshire County Council, hanwell, Care Quality Commission, Oxfordshire, crown residential home

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