A former Care Quality Commission inspector was arrested today on suspicion of pressurising care providers to pay for favourable inspection reports.
A private equity firm has bought up the country's biggest care home provider, Four Seasons Health Care, in a move that will "significantly reduce" the company's £780m debt burden.
Care home residents are less likely to end up in hospital than users of intensive home care, research has revealed. (Image: Alamy)
An investigation by Which? has found that older people are being put at serious risk from missed and rushed home care visits.
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Care homes are being asked to invite the public into their premises to discuss what makes residential care and how services can be improved, in a month-long campaign.
Health secretary Andrew Lansley was asked to remove CQC board member Kay Sheldon after she gave highly critical evidence about the regulator's leadership, a Labour peer has alleged.
Half of the learning disability services inspected by the Care Quality Commission in the wake of Winterbourne View are not meeting essential standards on safeguarding residents and caring for them. The CQC said the findings were a cause for concern.
Registered managers are highly committed to their roles but most do not feel valued, a National Skills Academy for Social Care survey has found.
Boosting investment in social care through tax breaks and incentives to start up new providers could help revive the economy's flagging fortunes, the government was told today.
The Care Quality Commission started its three-month programme of unannounced inspections of 250 home care providers this week, which is designed to garner much more information from service users than previous probes of domiciliary agencies.
Concerns have been raised over the future of the adult social care system after it was revealed that councils in England and Wales sliced £1.4 billion from their annual pay bill in 2011-12, largely by reducing staff numbers.
Social care workers in Wales will have a professional body to represent them with the announcement today of the launch of the Academy of Care Practitioners.
A new training programme will help social care managers improve services and deliver more for less, says National Skills Academy for Social Care head of membershp and engagement Debbie Sorkin.
Care home nurse Sandra Hambett reflects on how she dealt with a seemingly intractable case involving a resident who had developed pressure sores but refused painkillers that would have helped her treat them.
One care home manager asks what support they are entitled to to help them manage their increasing workload.(Pic: Design Pics Inc/Rex Features)
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