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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
Lansley, Nurses, Social Workers and Colleges

Yesterday, as a part of Lansley’s so-called ‘listening’ exercise, he found himself at the conference of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) as they voted in favour of a motion of no confidence in him personally by a fairly substantial … Continue...

Published 14 Apr 2011 6:51 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: andrew lansley, basw, British Association of Social Workers, college of social care, college of social work feud, Disability, health, local authority, Motion of no confidence, National Health Service, nurse, personal, politics, Royal College of Nursing, social care, social issues, Social media, social work, social work college, socialcare, Unison, 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
Away Day and Old Acquaintances

As I was wandering around the office, stretching my legs, I fell upon a conversation between one of the social workers who works in a different locality team and her manager about the possibility of a whole team ‘team building away day’. Of course this...

Published 25 Jun 2009 5:57 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: away day, cmht, community mental health team, health, local government, mental health, nurse, practice teacher, social work, social worker, uk, work
Media Spins, Private Fostering and a Prayer

The British Association for Adoption and Fostering ran a campaign last week to raise awareness of private fostering. As explained by the Fostering Network Private fostering is when a child under the age of 16 (18 if disabled) lives with someone who is...

Published 2 Feb 2009 6:21 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Child protection, Clevedon, daily mail, daily mail trash, discrimination, Foster care, newspaper, nurse, nursing, politics, rant, religious nurse, social care, social issues, social work, uk, United Kingdom, work
Delayed Discharges

Since moving from a generic Community Care team into a specialist Mental Health team a few years ago, I haven’t had as much contact with the vagaries of the delayed discharge system as I did back then. Yesterday was a rude (in every sense of the...

Published 27 Aug 2008 6:25 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: bed blocking, community care (delayed discharge) act 2003, delayed discharge, discharge, elderly, health, health care, hospital, long-term care, mental health, nurse, old age, older people, robert burns, section 2, section 5, social care, social issues, social services, social work, to a mouse, uk, work
Talking shop

Last night at an event which had nothing to do with work by any stretch of the imagination, I met the neighbour of the daughter of a woman that I visit. She recognised me because I had visited the flat next to her and she’d have seen me coming...

Published 10 Jun 2008 5:19 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: mistaken identity, nurse, professional, reception, sandwich, social work, work

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Undercover Care : The abuse exposed – A Review of Panorama

Lansley, Nurses, Social Workers and Colleges

Lessons from the Care Sector

Away Day and Old Acquaintances

Media Spins, Private Fostering and a Prayer

Delayed Discharges

Talking shop