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Weekly Social Work Links 27

A slightly truncated version this week because the last week has been a little distracting and we have a foster child who is likely to appear at any moment! So please add any other links or sites you’ve seen that have been useful in the comments section...

Published 6 Aug 2011 7:20 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: health, health care, links, nursing home, personal, social work, Southampton, work
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
Elaine McDonald, Kensington and Chelsea and Dignity

Yesterday, the High Court ruled in the case of R (on the application of McDonald) v Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. This was a further appeal by McDonald against a previous decision at a lower court. Elaine McDonald is 68 year old woman who worked...

Published 7 Jul 2011 6:32 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Age Discrimination, ageism, agism, dignity in care, discrimination, elaine macdonald, elaine mcdonald, elderly, health, Home Care, kensington, local government, mcdonald v kensington and chelsea, nursing home, old age, older people, personal, philosophy, politics, r v royal borough of kensington and chelsea, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, social care, social issues, social work, socialcare, work
Initial thoughts on the Dilnot Report on Funding of Care and Support

Scheduling and exhaustion meant I didn’t have time to look at the Dilnot proposals in detail yesterday so this morning I have fired up my browser and am going to make a few initial comments on the baseline main recommendations and hopefully over the next...

Published 5 Jul 2011 7:08 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Andrew Dilnot, british politics, care and funding, carer, carers, dementia, dillnot report, dilnot report, dilnot report on funding of care and support, dilnott report, Disability, elderly, Funding, funding of care, health, local authority, long-term care, Means test, mental health, nursing home, old age, older people, personal, politics, social care, social work, socialcare, work
Waiting for Dilnot

The Dilnot Commission on Care Funding and Support is due to report back to the government on Monday 4th July. At Arbitrary Constant there is some useful background reading about the Green and White Papers which were published by the previous government...

Published 29 Jun 2011 7:05 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Andrew Dilnot, care and support, dilnot commission, dilnot report, Disability, elderly, Funding, funding of care, Guardian, health, Home Care, local authority, nursing home, old age, older people, personal, politics, social care, social work, 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
Means Testing and Social Care Funding

Community Care reports that Dilnot who is chairing the latest in a long, long line of consultations into care funding has heard overwhelming opposition to retaining the £23,000 savings threshold before people have to start paying towards their social...

Published 18 May 2011 7:03 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Andrew Dilnot, andrew lansley, dilnot commission, elderly, long-term care, Means test, nursing home, old age, older people, personal, politics, social care, social care funding, social work, 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
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
When Old Age Meets Teenage – Review

Generally, I tend not to watch anything that might be deemed to be ‘work-related’ but last night I sat down to watch ‘When Old Age Meets Teenage’ on BBC2 (available here on the iPlayer). It’s only the first of a … Continue reading → Read More...

Published 22 Feb 2011 6:04 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Age UK, bbc2 programme, care home, Care of residents, Disability, elderly, Generations and Age Groups, intergenerational work, long-term care, nursing home, old age, older people, People, personal, social care, social issues, social work, when old age meets teenage, whiteley village, work
The Decision Maker

Over the week, I have a few posts planned about different aspects of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 – it’s partly because I’ve been asked questions specifically about it and partly because I, personally, find the area enormously interesting. Working, …...

Published 31 Jan 2011 6:23 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: assessing capacity, Best Interests Assessor, carer, Court of Protection, decision maker, decision-making, dementia, health, Home Care, long-term care, MCA, mca 2005, mental capacity act, Mental Capacity Act 2005, mental health, nursing home, old age, older people, personal, social work, 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
A Home to Fit

I have worked with Mrs G for about 18 months. She has a degenerating dementia and is becoming more physically frail. Unsurprisingly this is not an uncommon basic scenario that rears it’s head at work. Mrs G has no surviving family but she was a very active...

Published 16 Feb 2010 6:52 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Add new tag, Alzheimer's disease, dementia, elderly, England, health, local authority, long-term care, mental health, nursing home, old age, older people, residential care, social care, social issues, social services, social work, social worker, work
Reunited

Last week, I visited a nursing home – one of the few in the borough and one I had not been to for a while. I was trying to iron through some local difficulties however when I was there, chatting to the staff about the situation, I turned around...

Published 13 Jan 2010 6:47 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: carer, carers, elderly, local authority, long-term care, nursing home, old age, older people, personal, residential home, social care, social work, uk, work
Feeding Tubes

I was appalled by this story in the Guardian this morning that residents entering some nursing homes are being required to have feeding tubes fitted as a condition of admission – this comes in a report from the Royal College of Physicians which recommends...

Published 6 Jan 2010 6:51 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: care for the elderly, dementia, discrimination, elderly, human rights, long-term care, medication, mental capacity, mental health, nil by mouth, nursing home, old age, older people, peg feeding, personal, politics, royal college of physicians, social care, social issues, social work, work
The virtue of thought before action

It is not uncommon that I might ‘put my foot in it’ but I had a very narrow escape earlier in the week. I needed to place Mrs J in a residential home. There were no beds at the preferred home of choice of her family members and she had needed to be discharged...

Published 6 Nov 2009 6:49 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: care services, elderly, local authority, long-term care, narrow escapes, nursing home, office, old age, older people, personal, putting foot in it, residential home, social care, social issues, social work, 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
8 deaths - 10 days

I’m back to one of my least favourite topics today. Southern Cross Healthcare. And yes, the headline just about says it all. Crown Nursing Home in Harwell, Oxfordshire is a small 16 bedded nursing care home which was run by Trinity Care - bought...

Published 26 Feb 2009 6:21 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: chest infections in residential care, Death, elderly, health, Home Care, housing, local authority, long-term care, NHS primary care trust, nursing home, nursing home death, old age, older people, pnemonia, social care, social work, Southern Cross, southern cross healthcare, southern cross healthcare criticism, work
Coming Home

One of my colleagues is not well at the moment and is unlikely to be back at work in a rush. So as is the norm, her work needed to be reallocated. That’s how I found myself with a file for Mrs K. A woman who has a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s...

Published 25 Feb 2009 4:57 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Alzheimer's disease, Care of residents, dementia, elderly, health, Home Care, hospital admission, imca, london, long-term care, MCA, mental health, moving home, nursing home, old age, older people, social care, social issues, social work, work
Patching up

While not being extremely well experienced in making applications for people to be detained in psychiatric units, I’m certainly building up a fair amount of experience quickly. This week was the shortest assessment that I have been involved with...

Published 4 Dec 2008 6:38 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: AMHP, dementia, elderly, family, health, housing, local authority, long-term care, mental health, mental health act, nursing home, old age, older people, section 2 mha, sectioning, social care, social work, work
Finding places

I was on the ward yesterday, chatting to the wife of one of the patients with whom I am currently working. It’s a difficult point for her. Her husband, Mr P, has a fairly advanced dementia. He was admitted to hospital after displaying increasingly...

Published 23 Oct 2008 6:00 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: elderly, family, health, hospital, house, local authority, long-term care, Marriage, nursing, nursing home, old age, older people, psychiatric hospital, residential placement, social care, social work, work
On Inspection

The Commission for Social Care Inspection have a system of rating residential and nursing homes. I have written about it before. I possibly didn’t state obliquely how cynical I have become of this system even though the cynicism was always there...

Published 11 Oct 2008 5:06 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Care of residents, cmht, Commission for Social Care Inspection, cpn, csci, elderly, England, health, Inspection, inspections by csci, local authority, long-term care, nursing home, older people, registered residential home, residential home, social care, social work, uk, work
Rated Good

The Commission for Social Care Inspection inspect and rate every registered care home in England - as well as every agency that provides care for others. The website provides access to inspection reports on every facility in England - both announced inspections...

Published 29 Sep 2008 6:10 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: advocacy in darlington, Commission for Social Care Inspection, csci, Darlington, England, health, learning disability, long-term care, nursing home, residential care, social care, social work, victoria house, victoria house darlington, winnie care, work
.. I shall wear purple

The BBC reported yesterday about a Care Home, Woodland House in St Austell, Cornwall that has a wonderful sounding ‘Make a Wish’ initiative. Residents of the home are asked about dreams and goals for the future and in a worthy endeavour the...

Published 9 Aug 2008 6:22 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: care home, cornwall, Cornwall Care, elderly, Fish and chips, health, Jenny Joseph, jenny joseph warning, long-term care, make a wish, nursing home, old age, older people, residential care, residential home, social care, social work, st austell, woodland house, work
Trouble at Southern Cross

Both The Times and The Guardian reported that Southern Cross Healthcare Group have been launched into some kind of financial crisis following the failure to repay a loan of some £46 million. Times are getting harder and a lot of firms are failing - but...

Published 2 Jul 2008 2:43 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: care home, csci, elderly, health, housing, long-term care, nursing home, old age, older people, residential care, social care, social issues, social work, Southern Cross, Southern Cross Healthcare Group, uk, work

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