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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 software needed to run the outcomes project is well into development. The data to keep beyond NDTMS / TOPS has been drafted out, but not finalised. This will be a key point of interest through the consultation. We intend to record care-manager satisfaction data, though need to discuss this with care managers in some detail. Client satisfaction presents some additional technical hurdles and is unlikely to be included in the pilot scheme. The following images show screens from the current / development version of the software. First up are client detail screens. The first image covers the basic demographic information - the photo is entirely optional. Scroll down for more images and comments. 
Notice above that you are warned on the 'front page' of the client record that the NDTMS record is not valid and will not be accepted by the NTA. If you skip to the next page you will see why; the client data is not within the range accepted by the NTA. The modality data is also not correctly dated. The second and third pictures show the NDTMS and TOPS screens. Validation rules provided by the NTA are run against the data as you enter information into the screen, so there is instant feedback whether this will be accepted by the NTA (and also be solid data for the outcomes project). We are still working on the Placement and other screens - these will be shaped by the consultation and work taking place through June / July 2008. 
In the final example screen, you can see the TOPS data entry form. This is not quite complete. The screens describing the placements, care manager satisfaction and aftercare (and possibly others) are not yet complete. 
Below is the main list of clients in the 'placement manager' - a few sample client details are shown.. The buttons add / edit and delete client records. Different workers can 'filter' their own client lists and NDTMS returns exported. 
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