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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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This seems to be all about commissioners - what is in it for us? |
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The initial stages of the project are indeed mostly focussed on care managers and getting better market information into their hands.
We believe that the project will help providers by enabling commissioners / care managers to be smarter in how they place clients; for example using a wider range of providers rather than using a small historic list.
The project should also benefit providers more directly. The plan is to provide providers with much more detailed market information than you currently have available; this will help you position, market and price your service. The actual information fed back to providers is open to discussion. It is unlikely to actualy happen for six months or more so there is time for proper consultation on what you would find helpful. At this stage, we do not plan on publishing outcome data for all services back to providers and the general public - though we are interested in your views on this. We do yet see an 'in principle' problem with this, though it is difficult present such complex information in a way that will not be misinterpreted. For example, it would not be easy to present data about outcomes across disimilar services without people assuming they are similar and comparable. What is more likely is the publication of benchmarking data directly to services - so you can see how your own serivce compares to others, across different variables, without seeing the actual names of the other services. Feedback via the consultation would be welcome.
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