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  • Active Care? Another tale of Southern Cross

    I write a few months ago about the difficulties faced by Southern Cross Healthcare but a quick recap a) They are the largest private operator of residential and nursing care in the UK b) Big financial problems c) Some disparate concerns about quality of care and treatment of staff in homes that they...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-16-2008

  • Is Care Management Social Work?

    How much of social work exists in the Care Management model? It’s a question I’ve been toying with for a fair amount of time - especially as most of my work, post-qualification anyway, has been situated very much within the care management model. Although now, I have a slightly different...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-08-2008

  • Help to care

    I first saw on the news over the weekend about the report produced by the Institute for Public Policy Research related to  Personalised Budgets for Carers and it baffled me a little bit. Don’t get me wrong, I completely think that carers need, deserve and are entitled to a lot more support...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-04-2008

  • The Right to (Free) State Care

    Brown announced that he was starting a six month consultation to make decisions about reforms to the ’social care’ system and in particular, its funding. The Wanless Social Care Review was produced back in 2006 and it examined ways of paying for long term care in the face of an aging population...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-13-2008
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