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The Uk's Healthcare Law Service
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CARE
STANDARDS COMPLIANCE Also
Substantive Legal Changes on the horizon and the National
Minimum Standards proceed on the assumption that proper personnel
procedures are in place so that any proprietors who do not
have evidence of this will not reach “first base” in the compliance
competition.
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As with any business system the documents
and procedures comprised in it are intended as a “skeleton” to be
fleshed out with your own complementary material but which will,
if implemented fully, provide a solid foundation upon which to build
the finished article.
The
system is not intended as a substitute for appropriate professional
advice but should be used in conjunction with such. I am indebted
to Martin Wigg, former Registration and Inspection Officer and now
Director of Sovereign Healthcare Management Ltd, for editing the
pack from a Care Home operator’s perspective. His
input ensures the system’s practical application.
I am further indebted to the SOCIAL CARE ASSOCIATION for reviewing and constructively criticizing the early draft of this work enabling me to revise and amend the system to reflect their expert views.
Thanks
to East Sussex County Council Inspection and Registration Unit for
taking the trouble to evaluate the system and provide comments.
The system has been designed, on one hand, to be holistic but, on
the other, not to add unnecessarily to the administrative burdens
already borne by home owners which are considerable. As with any
compromise, therefore, there have been sacrifices and there will
be those who consider one or other document ought to have been included
or a particular document should contain additional material. We
intend monitoring and developing the system having regard to users’
experience and particularly when changes to the law occur and these
developments will be issued in the form of up-dates from time to
time. I very much hope this tool will avail home owners in the face
of a seemingly insatiable appetite that exists for administrative
solutions to human dilemmas.
ROBERT T. CAMPBELL Specialist Consultant Solicitors & Mediators
Email:
rob@carelaw.co.uk
What the system contains
The IPMT pack is a comprehensive set of practical working documents
and procedures to facilitate proper staff recruitment, training,
management and discipline, put together in such a way that it’s
use will ensure a seamless system for dealing with staff from the
point of recruitment and assessment through training, ongoing management
and even, should it come to it, discipline and dismissal.
Click here to see the contents list.
What
distinguishes the IMPT from other precedents?
The IMPT is not a dreary manual to sit gathering dust on a bookshelf
or a complicated general set of forms which need substantial editing
to fit your business.
It is designed to be user friendly and of practical value.
As the Care Standards Legislationis still developing and will not be finalised or fully and fully in force until April 2002, those who subscribe to the system will receive pack updates when we consider it appropriate to issue them following revisions of the system. They will generally be issued when there has been a relevent change in either Care Home or Employment Legislation. After 1st April 2002 we will be opening an updating service on subscription.
The system is specialised to the healthcare industry, unlike the
many general systems which may not be entirely suitable and has
been produced by professionals with a wealth of experience in your
business.
Last but not least it is affordable and will not make a dent in
your cash flow being available by monthly subscription payable over
three months.
What do subscribers get?
Those who register will receive a ring binder containing all of
the system documents, current at the date of registration. Subsequently
when up dates are produced subscribers automatically receive up
dated documents to replace those that have been superseded.
Shotly CD and web based versions will be issued
To
order The IPMT system
or to request further information click
here
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