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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

  • 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 Southern Cross are the largest provider and operator...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-02-2008

  • Into the ‘hoods

    Yesterday was European Neighbour’s Day. I know about this because I read The Guardian’s website! It was a timely then, that yesterday I spent a morning with the neighbour of one of the people that I work with. We’ve met a number of times and I’d say she and the community where...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-28-2008

  • 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

  • Who is watching?

    I see that the Alzheimer’s Society having published a book called ‘Enabling’ which provides models for observation in residential care facilities in order to improve care, as there was an article about it in Care and Health. I think it raises an important point about the need for something...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-29-2008
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