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IT grants available to care homes
The Social Care Institute for excellence is running a grants programme to improve information technology infrastructure of care homes. A total of £12m is available to install hardware and software, and 359 applications have been made in just two days. Proposals should show how the IT solution will benefit residents.
Care Homes that are interested should [...]
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CQC Praises and Damms
“Ratings for providers have .. improved, however one in six providers are only “poor” or “adequate”. Says CQC. A major new report from the Care Quality Commission provides a detailed breakdown of adult social care services in England, including figures on usage of services broken down by quality ratings.
“The proportion of care homes, home care [...]
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Brown promises to extend free social care
In todays Queens Speech, Gordon Brown is to promise further extension of free social care to the elderly. The care package would cover both domicilliary as well as care home based support and apply to the most need. The proposals would be funded by local and health authorities and are currently costed at £700m.
What is [...]
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Find the best care home for Archers Jack Woolley
“Peggy is struggling to find a care home for her husband, Jack as he faces the tragic mental decline of Dementia, on the Radio 4 show ‘The Archers’. The sensitive handling of the story line has been widely praised, but the show has only touched on the difficulty of actually finding a good care home. [...]
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Tories and Labour spar with elderly care pledges
The two largest parties have spent the week courting voters with promises to relieve the financial burden of paying for care by middle income voters. We take a quick run through their proposals.
The Tory plan allows for an £8k payment at age 65, as a one off insurance payment in exchange for the costs of care [...]
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DoH: “Half of care home patients suffer drug errors”
Channel 4 News reports that at DoH study has found frequent mistakes in the handling of medication at care homes, with as many as half of all residents affected. The study ran for over two years and involved direct observation of medication administration within 55 care homes.
The report found errors in several key areas
* administration errors [...]
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Eight pillars of care home best practice
Through it’s support of the My Home Life initiative, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation have carried out a piece of work to set out best practice in the running of care homes. With the help of sixty expert advisor’s and taking evidence from residents, they have produced a report setting out the Eight pillars of best [...]
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Care Home closures – a necessary evil?
Yet another care home closure hits the headlines. This time it is Underhill House in Wolverhamton. The council says that updating the home would cost £20m and it is better to move existing residents out. A matter of considerable distress for a small number of older people is a public relations nightmare for [...]
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Written by Richard Phillips
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Tuesday, 07 July 2009 10:41 |
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The rehaboutcomes.info website has not been updated for some time – this blog entry explains why! I concluded that the project as described on this site needed a more robust funding or revenue model, so decided to pursue an initial project with far wider scope, looking a all care homes rather than drug rehabs in particular.
The result is http://www.bestcarehome.co.uk which has just been launched. The site has some similarities to other web based care home directories, though has one important feature that sets it apart (aside from usability..). We have downloaded and analysed many thousands of inspection reports, allowing us to 'rank' care homes on their inspection performance over the last three years. The profiles of each house includes considerable detail, though further information from providers would make the site more complete. For examples, see the profile of the Ley Community and Littledale Hall as two examples of houses that do well under the quality index. For each house, a seperate page provides a summary care home inspection of each CQC / CSCI inspection since 2005, where these are prior to published . The site does not include outcome data, though if it is succesful I will return to the ideas described on the rehaboutcomes.info site. The new site does not have any substance misuse field specific features, though some are in the pipeline. The database includes all care homes in England that are registered with CQC. If you are a provider of a registered care home, I hope you will be interested in updating the details of your house on the site (it is free). First register on the site then click the 'Do you run this house' button on your house profile. Email me using the support address on that site if you have difficulties. Finally, if you like the site, I would be grateful if you could tell others. Even better, a mention on your website, blog or your twitter will help google take notice and get the site indexed. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 07 July 2009 11:14 )
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About the Rehab Outcomes Project |
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For people with long-standing drug/alcohol dependency problems who want to become drug free, residential rehabilitation is a vital component of the treatment system. There is good evidence that, combined with aftercare, these services are effective. There is less evidence that the overall residential treatment system is effective. The structure of the market does not ensure that the best houses remain open; that clients get into the rehab that best meets their needs nor that the taxpayer gets the best outcomes for their investment. Even with the decision by CSCI to publish star ratings (for England), Care Managers have very limited information about how rehabs compare and what they actually achieve for clients; this information gap undermines the effectiveness of this corner of the substance misuse field.
The Rehab Outcomes Project is under development to address this need. We aim to improve the effectiveness of residential rehabilitation in the UK by collating and sharing information about the outcomes, effectiveness and quality of these important services. |
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