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SPECIALIST SOLICITORS, CAMPBELL AND
COMPANY, CHALK UP CONTINUING NHS CARE VICTORY UNDER THE NEW FRAMEWORKSpecialist 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 scrappedThe 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 |
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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. Read |
| 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. Read |
| 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 |
| 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
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New
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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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