 £270,000
+ restitution
We are delighted to announce that after a lengthy and difficult
battle, we have received an offer of restitution of Care home fees
from the relevant Primary NHS Care Trust of over
£270,000... Read |
"No
Win – No Fee" Scheme.
Robert Campbell & Company, lawyers specialising nationally in
healthcare law have begun taking on some cases on a results only
basis. Read |
Radical Changes to the
NHS
The government is planning a radical shake up in the NHS,
abolishing Primary Care Trusts and Strategic Health Authorities
and handing the burden of commissioning NHS care services to GP
practices. Read |
Cambridge
Alzheimers suffer awarded Continuing NHS Care funding
Pressure is growing on the Government to update guidelines on
long-term care after a number of recent judgements. Read |
Mental
Capacity Act Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
The Mental Capacity Act Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards ("DOLS")
were introduced into the Mental Capacity Act 2005 through the
Mental Health Act 2007 Read |
SPECIALIST
SOLICITORS, ROBERT CAMPBELL AND COMPANY, CHALK UP CONTINUING NHS
CARE VICTORY UNDER THE NEW FRAMEWORK
Specialist healthcare lawyer Robert
Campbell has secured Continuing NHS Care funding for another
client following an extensive appeals process with a London PCT,
saving the family tens of thousands of pounds in care costs..
Read |
Continuing Care
retrospective reviews to be scrapped
The Continuing Care
retrospective review process is to be closed, Following
discussions with the Health Service Ombudsman, David Nicholson has
written to NHS colleagues, to inform them that the retrospective
review process for continuing care, started after the Ombudsman’s
report in 2004, should be drawn to a close.. Read |
YET ANOTHER REGULATOR TO
MONITOR CARE HOMES AND TRUSTS
Under performing NHS Trusts and Care
Homes face fines closure under powers for a new health and social
care watchdog, a leaked government document suggests.
Read |
Government
Publishes National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS
Funded Nursing Care
Recognising the “postcode lottery” that exists
regarding fully funded Continuing NHS Care the government has (26
June 2007) issued fresh guidance on how the NHS bodies should
approach the question of eligibility for continuing care under the
NHS. Read |
Care homes: 'No Human
Rights law cover'
Parliament is under pressure to block a
legal loophole opened up on Wednesday by a Law Lords judgment that
elderly and vulnerable people sent to private care homes by their
local authorities are not protected by human rights laws. |
Abolition of
Statutory Dispute Resolution Procedures
The DTI launched a consultation yesterday
with a view to abolishing the statutory dismissal and grievance
procedures, introduced in 2004. Read |
VICTORY ON
CONTINUING CARE CHARGES
A retired policeman, reported to have
been forced to sell his late mother's home to pay for her care has
won his fight to recover the cost of her
treatment. Read |
Flexible
Working for Carers
The DTI has, this morning, announced who
will qualify as a 'carer' under the new right for carers to
request flexible working. Read |
Bupa care homes
fined £90,000 after the tragic death of a 95-year old woman in
their care
BUPA Care Homes Ltd has been fined £90,000 and ordered to
pay £19,247 costs to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in a
prosecution by the HSE, following the death of 95-year-old woman,
Mrs Charlotte Wood from Mottingham.
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Mental Capacity Act 2005
comes into force April 2007
An Act to reform the currently wholly
unsatisfactory situation that has obtained for so long regarding
the affairs of those who lack mental capacity is now on the
statute books and will come into force next year.
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BBC
Panorama to re-visit the Continuing NHS Care scandal
BBC1 Sun 23 Jul, 10:15 pm
The NHS National Homes Swindle - A
Growing Scandal:
In March, Panorama revealed that thousands of elderly people had
been forced, unlawfully, to sell their homes... Read |
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SPECIALIST
SOLICITORS LAUNCH FREE NURSING CARE CAPPED FEE SCHEME
Following the recent Panorama expose’ of the Government’s
unlawful refusal to provide nursing care on the NHS to those
entitled, specialist Healthcare Solicitors, Robert Campbell and
Company, are offering a Capped fee service to family members who
are seeing the family inheritance being
hijacked. Read |
Social
Care Inspectorate cuts regulatory burden
1 March 2006
The Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) today made it
simpler for providers to register their care services, by cutting
down the regulatory burden. Read |
End to 'one
size fits all' inspection
2 March 2006
People who use services will continue to be at the heart of the
work carried out by Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI),
as the Government announces a change in the way adult services are
regulated and inspected. The change, effective from 1 April,
allows CSCI to focus on helping poorer services and drive
improvement in those that most need
it. Read |
Panorama
Covers the Free Nursing Care Scandal
The BBC’s flagship documentary series, Panorama, has screened a
hard hitting programme attacking the government’s refusal to set
up a lawful process for assessing eligibility for NHS funded
(free) Continuing Care.
Read |
Money
Surgery: End the postcode lottery on long-term care costs
Sunday
Telegraph, Sunday January 15,
2006
By Liz Dolan
Read |
David
Behan talks about the "Myths" surounding new proposed
inspection processess CSCI.
Myth 1 - It will mean only inspecting every 3 years. This is
not the case. The simple tick-box
approach of doing two Inspections every year for every provider is
no longer good enough....more |
Union fights for
free home care
Trade unionists who won compensation for thousands of miners are
going to court again - fighting for the right to free nursing
care. The mining union Nacods claims many thousands of people are
wrongly charged for places in nursing homes....more |
Consultation
on inspection later this month
The long-awaited review of the national
minimum standards for adult services will take place in three
stages, starting with a consultation later this month on the
frequency of inspection....more |
Service users
may be placed at risk under inspection plans
Older people's groups have warned that proposals to
radically cut the inspection burden on good care providers may
leave users at risk, writes Mithran Samuel....more |
New
adult care induction standards expected for September 2005
Skills for Care has given overall approval for revised
social care induction standards. The present standards, used by
registered managers to assess the fitness to practice of new
staff, need revision to come into line with social care's revised
NVQs and with the General Social Care Council codes of practice.
The new standards will come into use from September 2005, and are
expected to become compulsory a year later....more |
Consultation
on draft registration regulations
The purpose of the regulations is to specify revised
criteria that organisations must in future adhere to in order to
be registered, or remain registered with the CRB. They are
intended to formalise and build upon the role and responsibilities
of Registered Bodies, and in doing so, recognise the central role
that they play in the effectiveness of the Disclosure process....more |
Much done - more to do on
protection of vulnerable adults says social care workforce
regulator
People deserve dignity and for that we need care workers
who are trained, checked and accountable for delivering high
standards of care. PoVA has made a good start in keeping out a
number of dangerous abusers from the workforce....more |
Modernising
regulation of social care well under way
Modernising the regulation and inspection of an industry that
affects the lives of over 10 million people in England is well
under way, according to the annual report of the Commission for
Social Care Inspection published today....more |
Age Discrimination to
be Outlawed
Over 65s are to get the same rights to unfair dismissal and
redundancy payments as younger workers under new measures to
outlaw age discrimination in the workplace, Trade and Industry
Secretary Alan Johnson announced today....more |
Special
Report on commissioning of adult social care
There are to be no shotgun marriages - the language is now about
'virtual' care trusts, closer partnerships between the
organisations, more pooled budgets and sharing of staff....more |
Commission
welcomes OFT report
David Behan, Chief Inspector of the Commission for Social Care
Inspection (CSCI), has welcomed the Office of Fair Trading's (OFT)
report on care homes and pledged that the Commission will give
"careful consideration" to its recommendations....more |
Review
bodies agree practices to improve health and social care in Wales
The main external review bodies inspecting, regulating
and auditing health and social care in Wales have today, 12 May
2005, published an agreement (a Concordat) which will support the
improvement of services in health and social care in Wales and
also help to eliminate any unnecessary burdens of external
review....more |
Platt slams decision to
abolish CSCI
Denise Platt also confessed her fears that social care would be
marginalised in super-inspectorates for children's and adult
services, plans for which were announced in the Budget in
March....more |
Further
instability in social care regulation unhelpful
Dame Denise Platt DBE, chair of the Commission for Social
Care Inspection, today expressed disappointment that a further
period of instability in the future of social care regulation for
children and adult services has been introduced in today's Budget
statement......more |
Care
for people with learning disabilities improving but patchy, says
new report
People with learning disabilities are seeing services improve but
get a better deal in some parts of the country than others,
according to a new report by the Commission for Social Care
Inspection (CSCI) published today......more |
Good partnerships vital to
social care inspection, says commission
Effective partnerships between the organisations responsible for
new ways of inspecting social care are crucial to achieving good
results for people who use the services, says the Commission for
Social Care Inspection (CSCI)......more |
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CSCI issues
guidance on qualification targets to improve services in
children's homes
The Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) has revised its
policy on the required National Vocational Qualifications (NVQ)
for managers and care staff working in children's homes......more
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New
advice to combat elder abuse
A new leaflet published today will give older people information
of their rights to be treated with dignity and respect wherever
they are living.....more
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National Occupational
Standards
New National Occupational Standards (NOS) designed to improve
the quality of social care delivered throughout the country have
been launched by Topss England. The revised National Occupational
Standards set out competencies for the vast majority of the 1.2
million strong social care workforce......more
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Statements
of Purpose
The Care Homes Regulations 2001 ("CHR") contain a
Regulation, Reg. 4 (1), requiring registered persons to produce a
written statement called a Statement of Purpose
("SOP")......more
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First Party
Top Ups
In case anyone missed it, Charges for Residential
Accommodation ("CRAG") amendment 16 was issued in
October last year allowing, for the first time, certain residents
to top up their own fees so that they can go into more expensive
accommodation than the paying Council would "otherwise expect
to pay".....more
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The New
Care Standards Tribunal
Following the demise of the Registered Homes Tribunal a new
tribunal has come into being, the Care Standards Tribunal. At the
time of writing the new tribunal is awaiting finalisation of a
fresh set of rules which had been out for consultation at the end
of last year......more |
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