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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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The project is being developed by Richard Phillips. Richard has both commissioned and run registered care homes for substance misusers; he has an enduring commitment to improving the effectiveness of these services and the commissioning structure that supports them. Earlier in his career, RP initiated and ran a forerunner project with a consortium of care managers in London. The ‘Commissioner Led Outcome Monitoring Scheme’ (charmingly abbreviated to CLOMS) used the CISS outcome tool and paper forms to collect outcome data of clients referred by London care managers. That project, was in turn influenced by an interesting review of rehab placements that took place in Hammersmith and Fulham, conducted by John Gordon-Smith and George Cristo, the author of the CISS outcome tool.
RP further developed a critical analysis of the rehab market during his time as Director of Services at Phoenix Futures, the largest not for profit provider of residential rehab for substance misusers in the UK. He published several articles on the subject and using this critique as the cornerstone of the consensus response to the national drug strategy.
By way of further background, biography and full disclosure: RP has worked in the substance misuse field since 1989 in roles from outreach worker to policy work, commissioning and senior management; he was a Director at Alcohol Concern prior to his time at Phoenix Futures. During his time at Phoenix, he acted in an advisory capacity to a number of NTA projects on Tier Four services. He is also the owner of ScriptBase Software (www.scriptbase.co.uk) currently sits on a Joseph Rowntree Foundation research committee on alcohol and has been a member of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs since January 2008.
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