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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
  • Creating home at home

    Yesterday, one of the plenary sessions I attended at Community Care Live was a discussion of an initiative by Help the Aged called My Home Life. As it says on the site, it is ‘a new initiative aimed at improving the quality of life of those who are living, dying, visiting and working in care homes...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-15-2008
  • No place like home

    I saw on the BBC yesterday that a man died in an EMI/Dementia registered nursing home in Hertfordshire. It was only a passing reference on the news but I thought I’d check the CSCI report of the home in question. This is a quote taken from the CSCI unannounced inspection back in October of the...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-01-2008
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